एक बहुत छोटे पद के लिए भी सरकारी कर्मचारियों के बारे में सम्बंधित विभाग चयन समिति को पूरा विवरण देता है जिस में विजिलेंस सम्बन्धी जानकारी भी होती है. लेकिन यहाँ देश के केन्द्रीय सतर्कता आयुक्त पद के लिए चयन हुआ, चयन समिति के अध्यक्ष स्वयं प्रधान मंत्री थे, गृह मंत्री और विपक्ष के नेता समिति के सदस्य थे, पर सरकार के अनुसार यह जानकारी सम्बंधित विभाग द्वारा समिति को नहीं दी गई. मजे की बात यह है कि इस सम्बंधित विभाग के मंत्री प्रधानमंत्री स्वयं हैं. अब यह तो अपने आप में खुद एक स्केम हो गया. 
कुछ दिन पहले मैंने एक पोस्ट लिखी थी - सरकार भ्रष्टाचारियों के साथ है. इस में मैंने लिखा था कि किस प्रकार एक ईमानदार और कर्तव्य परायण अधिकारी को हरियाणा सरकार इस लिए परेशान कर रही है क्योंकि उस ने भ्रष्टाचार के खिलाफ आवाज उठाई थी. संजीव चतुर्वेदी के पांच वर्ष में १२ तबादले किये गए, झूठी चार्जशीट दी गई, फिर सस्पेंशन किया गया, कोई पदोन्नति नहीं, प्रदेश सरकार द्वारा डिसमिस करने की धमकी दी गई. भ्रष्टाचारियों में एक की पदोन्नति हो गई, एक को प्लम पोस्टिंग मिली. प्रदेश सरकार भ्रष्टाचार के खिलाफ कार्यवाही करने के बजाय भ्रष्टाचारियों के साथ मिल गई. केंद्र सरकार की जाँच में यह सिद्ध हो गया कि संजीव को फंसाया गया है, चार्जशीट झूठी है, पर कुछ नहीं किया गया. मीडिया में बात उठी तब केन्द्रीय मंत्री जयराम रमेश ने चार्जशीट को रद्द किया, पर अब यह पता चला है कि यह मंत्री भी पलट गया और मामला फिर दोषी प्रदेश सरकार के सवाले कर दिया गया, जो अब संजीव को डिसमिस करने जा रही है.
इंदिरा गांधी को इलाहाबाद हाई कोर्ट ने चुनावी धांधली के लिए दोषी ठहराया था. इस से नाराज हो कर उन्होंने देश में आपातकाल लगा दिया. इस के लिए उन्होंने न तो अपने मंत्रिमंडल से संपर्क किया, न ही अपने कानून मंत्री और गृहमंत्री से संपर्क किया. राष्ट्रपति फखरूद्दीन अली अहमद से मात्र अपनी सिफारिश पर भारतीय लोकतंत्र का न केवल घोर अपमान किया बल्कि लोकतंत्र को ही अनिश्चितकाल तक निलंबन में रखवा दिया. बाद में लोकतंत्र के इस घोर अपमान को सुप्रीम कोर्ट द्वारा सही ठहरवा दिया.
पिछले वर्षों में भ्रष्टाचार के जितने भी मामले सामने आये, जिस तरह उन्हें दबाने की कोशिश की गई, न दबा पाने पर जिस तरह उनकी जांच कराई गई, जिस तरह दोषियों को क्लीन चिट दिलवाई गई, उसके बाद अब किसी के मन में यह संदेह नहीं रहना चाहिए कि सरकार भ्रष्टाचार का उन्मूलन करना चाहती है. सरकार पूरी तरह से भ्रष्टाचारियों के साथ है.
December 9 was celeberated as International Anti-corruption Day. Tainted CVC P J Thomas launched a portal called 'Vig-Eye' where citizens can upload videos or audio clips exposing corrupt acts in Govt departments. Facility of on-line registration of compalints is already available on CVC website. Citizens can send complaints by other means also.
Dr Kalam's visualisation of India in the year 2020 includes a nation where the govrnance is responsive, transparent and corruption free, where the rural and urban divide has reduced to a thin line and the agriculture, industry and service sector work together in symphony. Today's governance lacks responsiveness and transparency resulting in corruption becoming a big problem being faced by the country. Everybody will agree with Dr Kalam that righteousness is the solution to it.
A bench headed by Chief Justice SH Kapadia observed today that."without looking into the file, we are concerned that if a person is an accused in a criminal case how will he function as CVC." Bench made this observation after attorney general GE Vahanvati placed records of documents pertaining to Thomas appointment in a sealed cover. The name of Thomas figures in a charge sheet filed in a palmoleine export case.
The Congress Govt makes high claims on zero tolerance on corruption and yet it appoints, ignoring objections of Leader of Opposition, Thomas as CVC. Any person having any direct or indirect taint should not be appointed on constitutional posts. It sends wrong signals. The Govt has compromised the credibility of the institution of CVC. CBI has already lost the confidence of the people. How the people of India will be expected to believe that the Govt is sincere on the issue of corruption when it says something but does something opposite to that.
Does Govt really want to eradicate corruption? Is Congress honest in saying that it has zero tolerance on corruption? Answer to these questions is a big NO.
ecords of corruption set by Maha CMs. Name is Adarsh Society, but actions ........
सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने बहुत चिंता जताते हुए कहा कि सरकारी महकमों में बिना पैसा दिए कुछ नहीं होता. मोइली मंत्री ने कहा कि न्यायिक जबाबदेही बिल बस आने वाला है. रिटायर्ड मुख्य विजिलेंस कमिश्नर, सिन्हा ने कहा कि हर तीसरा इंडियन भ्रष्ट है. बाबू और राजनीतिबाज को भ्रष्टाचार से अलग कर के देखना तो क्या सोचना भी संभव नहीं है. किसी मंत्री का भ्रष्टाचार जब ख़बरों का विषय बन जाता है तब प्रधानमंत्री उसे क्लीन चिट दे देते हैं. काला धन खेलों में रिकार्ड भ्रष्टाचार पर 'देश की शान पर बट्टा न आये' का पर्दा डाल दिया केंद्र और दिल्ली सरकार ने.
This is the story of a whistleblower, Abhijit Ghosh, who has retired as General Manager of Central Bank of India. He blew the whistle on H A Daruwalla, then Chairperson and Managing Director of the bank. In the eyes of the bank, Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), Government, he has committed a crime of exposing the organized corruption in the bank. He was harassed and victimized.
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.. Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want foreign TVs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is. She replied: I want to live in a developed India. For her, you and I will have to build this developed India. You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation.
YOU say that our government is inefficient.
YOU say that our laws are too old.
YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.
YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke. The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.
YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.
YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it?
Take a person on his way to Singapore. Give him a name - 'YOURS'. Give him a face - 'YOURS'. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best. In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are. You pay $5 (approx. Rs.. 60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU come back to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity… In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai. YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah. YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds (Rs. 650) a month to, 'see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else. ‘YOU’ would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, 'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son. Take your two bucks and get lost.' YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand. Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo? Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston??? We are still talking of the same YOU. YOU, who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same here in India?
In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job. Same in Japan. Will the Indian citizen do that here?' He's right. We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility. We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms. We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity. This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public.
When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child! and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse? 'It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry.' So who's going to change the system? What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbours, other households, other cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not me and YOU. When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr. Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away. Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to England. When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money.
Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too….. I am echoing J. F. Kennedy's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians…..
'ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY'
Let’s do what India needs from us.
Thank you,
Dr. Abdul Kalam
When Jug Suraiya says that he himself is the source of corruption, he says it for all of us. Each one of us is responsible for corruption. My blog says 'Fight Corruption'. At one time or the other, each one of us say, 'Fight Corruption'. When we say this, we mean the corruption which is happenning around us. After reading the 'Ghoos Story' a thought struck me that what about the corruption within me, what about the corruption for which I am responsible? So, when I say 'Fight Corruption', it should not be to fight 'external corruption' only but it should also include 'internal corruption'.
Can corrupt be expected to act against corruption? Certainly not the police. It is so corrupt that it can never act against corruption. There is a saying - chor-chor mausere bhai, meaning all thieves are cousins. Some journalists carried out a sting operation to expose corruption of MPs. The corrupt MPs were expelled from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. Police registered a case against the journalists. Court says that it is the fundamental duty of every citizen to highlight corruption wherever he/she finds it. Police says that it is a serious crime to highlight the corruption of those in power. Court says that police seem to have acted again as "his masters voice" of persons in power when it registered FIR only against the middlemen and journalists and one or two other persons sparing large number of MPs whose names figured in the tapes.
It is not surprising that a large number of citizens are afraid of highlighting corruption.
Indian Government has gone in to denial mode. Being encouraged by this, Organizing Committee of CW Games has also gone in to denial mode. They are not ready to admit that there are problems, problems of large-scale organized corruption, incompetence, mismanagement, inefficioency and what not.It is very difficult to believe that a person who has manipulated his own appointment as CVO will be an honest investigator in corruption cases. Manipulation in India does not come free. It needs both money and contacts at the right places. A CVO once commented that this is a life-time chance in his service life, and he will be a fool if he does not take advantage of it. He said that he has to recover the money he has spent on securing this appointment. I told him that I am totally against these outsider CVOs as they will be putting their own interest over the interest of the organization. Seeing the performance of successive CVOs in India's National Standards Body, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), I have been proved right.
It is required to provide solutions to the problems, but problems should not be created in the name of providing solutions. Successive CVOs in BIS have created vigilance problems to prove that they are needed and then to assert their authority. If today, BIS is mired in neck-deep corruption then it is because of these outsider CVOs. I remember writing in one issue of Contact (BIS Officers Association Journal) that a Police Station has been opened in BIS.
The case of Ms Harjot Kaur, IAS CVO in BIS is fresh in mind. She openly threatened (in presence of DG) members of BIS Employees Union. She organized illegal raids on some Mumbai licensees to teach lesson to a WRO officer. Complaints were lodged against her. What action has been taken on these complaints has not been informed to the complainants (BISEU and me). She suddenly went on long leave and had not returned till date.
In my comments sent to CVC on draft NACS, I have emphasized on this point. I have commented that CVC should put its own house in order and make CVOs accountable, so that they do not become a link in organized corruption chain in the organization. They should effectively and efficiently fight against corruption as third party and should not themselves become part of the corruption.
In case of Vinod Dhamija, another CVO in BIS, he was even made head of some departments of BIS. He created his own interest group in BIS and took all advantages. CVOs in BIS have manipulated number of cadre officers to be appointed in vigilance department in HQ and also in some RO/BO. It has depleted the strength of cadre and made these officers ineligible for promotions under FCS. Then CVO and DG violated provisions of FCS to get them promoted. My complaints are there but no action has been taken so far on these violations. All this puts a serious doubt on the honesty and integrity of DA, CVO and the officers who have worked in, or working in vigilance activity or have been illegally promoted.
To achieve the target of zero percent corruption in BIS, the pre-requisite is that BIS has honest, impartial and committed CVO and other officers in vigilance department. The purpose should not be to punish people but to achieve zero corruption in BIS. The initiative should come from the top. Regular and effective monitoring and review is needed in all work areas of the organization. Feedback from any source should be welcome and action be initiated. Who gives the feedback is not important, but to act on it is important.
Let CVOs prove their credentials.
