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JK’s anti-graft bodies face political pressure to shield corrupt, says survey 10/22/2016 8:13:49 AM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early Times Report Srinagar, Oct 21: A survey conducted by the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International India along with the Centre for Media Studies has ranked J&K among the most graft-prone states in the country. It says that the state’s anti-graft agencies come under political pressure to shield the corrupt. The report says that weak internal vigilance system in the government departments also cause the delay in disposal of corruption cases. “The State Vigilance Commission and other agencies deal with the cases of corruption after the concerned department failed to redress it,” the report said. The survey has observed that the cases of corruption filed in various government departments are of ‘trivial nature’. “The tag ‘trivial nature’ implies that the cases can easily be addressed by a department with a strong internal vigilance system, but the government departments have over the years failed to do so,” the report said This could have led to the quick disposal and redressal of grievances of general public and resultant good governance, the report said. As per the report, in 2014, there were 2,160 complaints of corruption filed in SVC, out of which 1,173 were disposed off while the remaining was controversial. The cases which the SVC redressed resulted in recommending registration of FIRs in 26 cases. Also, the report said that most of the complaints were received against officials of the state engineering departments thereby making them eligible enough to register their name in the list of most corrupt departments in the state. Meanwhile, experts say that corruption in J&K affects all levels of the society but it’s in the administrative one that the biggest damage is done to the people and comes to exacerbate poverty. “The most simple daily-routine administrative tasks cannot be performed without a bribe to the civil servant. In our state the government's anti-poverty funds hardly reached to the poor. Anti-corruption laws have existed, supported by agencies such as the vigilance organization, Vigilance Commission and yet, failure has been the common point of these efforts,” an expert said. He added that the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) was created to put in charge of implementing the Prevention of Corruption Act, focusing on high officials. But even as over the years the powers and mandate of the Commission have been increased to make it more effective, its focus is still more on bureaucracy than politics.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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