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MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES & PENSIONS
Central Government Employees Welfare Coordination Committees in Central
Government Offices located outside Delhi, Resident Welfare Associations / Area
Welfare Officers, Benevolent Fund and Departmental Canteens. The Department
of Personnel and Training is the nodal agency for four registered societies set up for
the welfare of the Government employees and their families. These societies are
the Central Civil Services Cultural and Sports Board, Grih Kalyan Kendra, Kendriya
Bhandar and Civil Services Officers Institute (CSOI). These are located in Delhi.
Administrative Vigilance
2.8 The Administrative Vigilance Division is the nodal agency in the field of Vigilance
and Anti-corruption. Its main tasks, inter-alia, are to oversee and provide necessary
directions to the Government’s programme of maintaining discipline and eradicating
corruption from public services. In order to step up efforts towards containment of
corruption, the three-pronged strategy for prevention, surveillance and detection
supplemented by deterrent and punitive action adopted during the preceding years,
continued to be followed during the current year also. Towards this end, the
implementation of the Anti-corruption Action plan of each ministry / department has
been monitored through quarterly reports. Emphasis continued to be laid on
preventive vigilance that might involve appropriate changes in the existing rules /
regulations / procedures in selected areas.
Central Vigilance Commission
2.9 The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) was originally set up by a Resolution of
the Government dated 11 February, 1964. The Government has accorded statutory
status to the Commission by the Central Vigilance Commission Act, 2003 (No.45
of 2003). Under the Act, the CVC has been empowered to inquire or cause an
inquiry or investigation on a reference made by the Central Government. It is also
empowered to exercise superintendence over the vigilance administration of the
various Central Government ministries, departments and organizations. With the
enactment of the CVC Act, 2003, the superintendence of the Delhi Special Police
Establishment in so far as investigation of offences under the Prevention of
Corruption Act, 1988 are concerned, vests with the Central Vigilance Commission.
Through the “Public Interest Disclosure and Protection of Informers” Resolution
dated 21 April, 2004, the Government has designated the Central Vigilance
Commission as the agency to act on the complaints from “whistle blowers”.
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