Source : www.dnaindia.com dated 9th December, 2010
Upload videos, audios to expose corruption on Central Vigilance Commission's
'Vig-Eye'
Published: Thursday, Dec 9, 2010, 15:27 IST
Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI
In a unique move, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) today launched an
exclusive website for people to upload videos, audios and lodge complaints
exposing acts of corruption in government departments.
According to an anti-corruption watchdog official, Vig-Eye (an acronym for
vigilance eye), provides a more user-friendly platform for interface between
the CVC and the citizens who may have suffered at the hands of corrupt
officials and who want to disclose information about such illegal activities.
"The advantage of Vig-Eye includes simplified process of filing complaints and
it will provide authentic identity of the complainant. Vig-Eye would be
completely digitised and it will give online access to vigilance information,"
Central Vigilance commissioner PJ Thomas said while inaugurating the web portal.
"Efforts at modernising the vigilance framework are underway which include
development of new models of preventive vigilance, adoption of risk management
approach and aligning the vigilance function with the corporate governance
framework," he said.
The CVC said that preventive and punitive approaches to addressing corruption
need to complement each other. The commission has adopted a strategy of
leveraging technology and has been persuading the government to adopt
e-governance measures.
"The aim is to use technology in activities vulnerable to corruption in order
to reduce human intervention," he said.
Thomas said that the commission has undertaken a campaign aimed at creating
awareness about corruption and inculcating ethics on good governance. The
campaign would help reduce people's tolerance for corruption.
The commission has also recommended to the government to include ethics
education in the school curriculum, Thomas said.
Thomas was speaking during a seminar 'Empowering citizens to combat corruption'
organised at Vigyan Bhawan here on International Anti-Corruption Day. The
seminar was aimed at deliberating and recommending proactive and participative
measures to combat corruption.
Introducing the Vig-Eye, vigilance commissioner (VC) Srikumar said that it will
help build up the vision of proactive and predictive vigilance.
The VC said that people can use mobile phones and web based technologies to
lodge complaints or grievances using mobile phones with a software application
specially designed to file complaints.
People can visit CVC's website (www.cvc.nic.in) to access or get more
information on Vig-Eye.
The CVC acts as an apex anti-corruption statutory body mandated to fight
corruption and ensuring probity in public life.
