There was also a decision to set up 71 special courts to try the corruption cases and dispose them off speedily, of which 44 have been set up so far in the states.
Observers would call it the Hazare effect, though V Narayanasamy, minister of state in the PMO, reminded journalists that the prime minister had set up the group of ministers (GoM) headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee in January this year, months before Anna Hazare’s first fast in April.
The GoM had submitted its report and the cabinet had taken a slew of decisions based on it. Among them is the decision to set up a committee headed by a sitting Supreme Court judge and including former CVC and the CBI to look at the 2,600 cases of corruption that have been hanging fire for 10 years and more. Narayanasamy revealed that the CBI was handling 10,000 cases of corruption, of which 2,600 are a decade-old.
There was also a decision to set up 71 special courts to try the corruption cases and dispose them off speedily, of which 44 have been set up so far in the states. Narayanasamy said the prime minister had directed the states to set up the courts in February this year.
There is also movement on other fronts. There will soon be an amendment of Article 311 of the Constitution which deals with the summary dismissal of civil servants. The GoM has recommended that the accused official should be given an opportunity to defend his case.
It has been found that even after action against a corrupt official has been recommended by the authority concerned, it takes nearly six to seven years to implement it. The first step that the GoM has recommended is to name the officer by designation rather than name to get over the bureaucratic hurdle to implement a decision in case the concerned vigilance officer is transferred.
It has also been decided that the errant official’s pension should be cut by 10 per cent for five years as penalty.
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