Comments on: Congress, Nepotism and Corruption http://www.deeshaa.org/2009/09/05/congress-nepotism-and-corruption/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:41:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: anup http://www.deeshaa.org/2009/09/05/congress-nepotism-and-corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-147509 anup Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:56:48 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/?p=2875#comment-147509 One of the recent achievements in the area of Corruption Prevention is discussed in this article below. http://www.blogs.ivarta.com/Saddening-case-Indian-Bureaucracy/blog-238.htm "In the recent winter session of the parliament, on December 28, 2009, that which lasted for a meagre of [13 minutes], one of the bills passed was for amending the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA). The bureaucrats all over the country, specifically those facing allegation of corruption, fêted over its passing. This was because the amendment bill was in every sense a "triumph" to bureaucrats all over the country as they were no more answerable to "pesky" investigating agency." The earlier law had said that "If a government official, by corrupt or illegal means, obtains for himself or any other person any valuable thing or pecuniary advantage, he or she is said to have committed an offence of criminal misconduct." It includes awarding contract to any person with the above said motive. "Now" says Justice Hegde, "the bureaucrat can award any contract to anyone and no one can question it!" One of the recent achievements in the area of Corruption Prevention is discussed in this article below.

http://www.blogs.ivarta.com/Saddening-case-Indian-Bureaucracy/blog-238.htm

“In the recent winter session of the parliament, on December 28, 2009, that which lasted for a meagre of [13 minutes], one of the bills passed was for amending the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA). The bureaucrats all over the country, specifically those facing allegation of corruption, fêted over its passing. This was because the amendment bill was in every sense a “triumph” to bureaucrats all over the country as they were no more answerable to “pesky” investigating agency.”

The earlier law had said that “If a government official, by corrupt or illegal means, obtains for himself or any other person any valuable thing or pecuniary advantage, he or she is said to have committed an offence of criminal misconduct.” It includes awarding contract to any person with the above said motive. “Now” says Justice Hegde, “the bureaucrat can award any contract to anyone and no one can question it!”

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