Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 23: State Vigilance Commission (SVC) today directed Public Health Engineering, Irrigation & Flood Control, Public Works and Health and Medical Education Departments to strictly follow e-tendering, e-processing and e-payment of all works.
The direction was passed in a meeting held with the officers of these departments in order to implement institutional reforms to prevent corrupt practices. These departments were directed to upload all the tendered works and the works under implementation along with cost involved on the respective websites without any further delay to ensure vigil from the common masses.
Mechanism to introduce transparency was also discussed at length and directions were issued to ensure deduction of TDS and recording of PAN details in payments made to contractors. “Withdrawal of money through self-cheques and later its disbursement to beneficiaries should be stopped and the Administrative Secretaries shall ensure that all payments of this nature are made by way of direct transfer into bank accounts of the concerned”, the Commission directed.
The Chief Vigilance Officers and other Departmental Vigilance Officers were directed to speed up the disposal of complaints pending with them and initiate suo-motto action on complaints and in irregularities coming to their notice. They were directed to ensure completion of all pending departmental enquiries within three months.
Meanwhile, Social Welfare Department whose review was taken by Vigilance Commission last month has initiated implementation of Direct Benefit Transfer scheme and the payments to beneficiaries under various schemes directly into bank accounts is progressing. For better efficiency in transmission of benefits, these schemes are being linked to Adhar Cards which will ensure 100% hassle free implementation of DBT scheme.
In furtherance of instructions given to Education Department in a similar meeting, the Complaints Monitoring Cell has been constituted to speed up progress of all enquiries and complaints. The Rural Development Department in furtherance of the instructions given by Commission has prepared a paper identifying loopholes existing in different schemes along with the mechanism for checks and balances, which will be implemented in consultation with the Commission to check leakage of funds.
The officers were directed to develop strong internal vigilance mechanism and work in tandom with Commission to eradicate corruption at different levels.
The meeting was chaired by Kuldeep Khoda, Chief Vigilance Commissioner and attended by R K Jerath, Vigilance Commissioner, Gous-ul-Nisa Jeelani, Vigilance Commissioner, Rohit Kansal, Commissioner Secretary, PWD(R&B) Department, Parvaiz Malik, Commissioner Secretary, PHE/I&FC, Jatinder Singh, Secretary, SVC, Alok Puri, IGP Vigilance Organization, Additional Secretaries, Chief Vigilance Officers/Departmental Vigilance Officers of various departments, Administrative Officer, Associated Hospitals, Government Medical College, Jammu.
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