In a serious attempt to keep an effective check on the day-to-day functioning, the AAP Government has reportedly started a massive exercise to identify all sensitive posts which are prone to corruption in its various departments, Public Sector Undertakings and autonomous bodies all across the city.
Chief secretary KK Sharma is said to have himself held a series of meetings with different Government functionaries to ensure corruption was weeded out of the administrative machinery. The Chief Secretary has issued standing instructions to all the departments to identify areas which are prone to corruption particularly at places involving public interaction with the Government agencies. The Chief Secretary has also directed that CCTV cameras be installed at sensitive places after evaluating its cost implications and availability of budgetary resources. A decision has also been taken that methods of control over arbitrary exercise of discretion or suggestions given by the HODs in individual departments should be given to the Chief Secretary through the vigilance wing only.
Sources said the Government has made it amply clear that its emphasis would be more on preventive vigilance to ensure there is little scope where money can change hands for getting works of individuals done through administrative machinery.
The source said the Chief Secretary directed each department to project requirement for separate posts of vigilance officers in their respective work places. He reportedly told the vigilance officers in each department to report directly to their respective HODs to facilitate independent analysis of vigilance related matters.
The Government has also directed that pendency and age of disciplinary proceedings arising out of the vigilance investigations and subsequent steps taken to ensure their expeditious disposal should be monitored directly at the level of the HODs of the respective wings.
Even the Union Territory Civil Services has been asked to organise a two-day training programme on vigilance matters for its officers in different departments. The programme would help the vigilance officers to deliberate efficiently on matters pertaining to investigations and their speedy disposal at various forums.