Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 20: Government today assured the State Accountability Commission (SAC) of support and cooperation to make it an effective and potent instrument of the transparency and accountability in the public administration.
The assurance was extended by Minister for Law and Justice, Abdul Haq Khan, who called on Chairperson of the Accountability Commission, Justice B A Khan to discuss the affairs of the SAC and the difficulties faced by it in its functioning. The Member of the Commission, Justice J P Singh was also present in the meeting.
Justice Khan apprised the Minister of the difficulties being faced by the Commission in performance of its statutory duties and steps that were required to be taken to revive the Commission. He handed over a copy of the proposed amendments to the Minister to be taken up in the next budget session of the State Assembly.
Justice Khan brought to the notice of the Minister that the Commission had been rendered in- effective over the years after multiple amendments were made in the State Accountability Commission Act reducing its jurisdiction only to the political class and by excluding public servants and other bodies like the Government Corporations, Universities, Cooperative Societies etc from it.
He emphasized the restoration of the powers of the Commission as vested in it by original act of 2002.
The Minister assured the Commission of the Government’s support and cooperation to make it an effective and potent instrument of the transparency and accountability in the public administration.
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