The office of Accountants General, Odisha observed the concluding ceremony of the Vigilance Awareness Week with this year’s theme “Eradicate Corruption - Build a New India” here on Friday.
Vigilance Director Debasis Panigrahi, Principal Accountant General (A and E) Madhuniita Basu, Principal Accountant General (E and RSA) Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri and Accountant General (G and SSA) Bibhudutta Basantia attended as guests.
Panigrahi emphasised on Gandhiji's ideas on transparency and focused on eradicating corruption by three ‘E’s’, i.e, Enforcement, Education and Empowerment. He also appreciated initiatives taken by the AG offices in empowering the pensioners and GPF subscribers and stressed on creating better corruption-free atmosphere for the next generation.
Basu elaborated the two ways to handling vigilance, i.e, handling through preventive actions and handling through corrective actions.
Chaudhuri elicited the need for learning skills to audit in a digital environment which has new challenges and Basantia reminded the Audit and Accounts fraternity the necessity of carrying out their service functions diligently and with integrity and honesty.
On the occasion, the guests felicitated the winners in the essay writing, elocution and slogan writing competitions conducted during the week and distributed certificates of merit to meritorious staffs in appreciation of their sincerity and commitment to work.
A Hindi play “LAALACH” was played on Vigilance awareness written and directed by Surjyamani Rana.