In the days to come, one can know about the extent of corruption in Government offices. For the first time, the Central Vigilance Commission is coming up with a public perception index to collect opinion about graft in 25 organisations.
The CVC has commissioned a pilot project to Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad to come up with an index for 25 organisations within one year, on the lines of Corruption Perceptions Index of Transparency International, to know how a department has fared in its reputation among public on corruption and established mechanism to counter such practices.
“Twenty-five organisations such as Railways and Coal India among others have been chosen for the exercise on the basis of their exposure to direct dealings with general public,” Vigilance Commissioner T M Bhasin said.
Addressing a Press conference on the launch of Vigilance Awareness Week on Monday, Central Vigilance Commissioner K V Chowdary earlier said there was lack of authentic data to ascertain whether corruption has increased or decreased. He said there is Transparency International's data but the Commission cannot quote it as it is not an authentic data of Government of India.
“I am not very sure whether there are authentic studies but certainly we trying to bring awareness among people...We are conducting the study to know what is the public perception about a particular organisation,” he said.