The corrupt officers did not like my husband reporting about their corrupt practices and other corrupt officers against whom my husband had not reported felt threatened by his honest and sincere efforts to tackle corrupt practices. Just to give an idea about his style of functioning I am giving below two of the circulars issued by him and given to the public under the Right to Information Act
Circular 1: Adoption of new techniques to improve Transparency.
Circular 2: Role and Responsibilities of Government Officers nominated as Directors.
Some examples of innovative methods to fight corrupt practices introduced by my husband are given below:
Using a leaflet to help redressal of grievances combining the Right to Information Act- This was put into practice until my husband's transfer for reporting repeatedly by my husband the corrupt practices of senior officers .
Using a leaflet to give information to the public to help them monitor the quality of work- This was used in the execution of more than 200 works. The information was also made available on the internet but the website has now been withdrawn. It would be interesting to know the persons behind this using the RTI Act. This measure alone saved more than 30% pilferage and improved the quality of works.
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Please ask your Husband to go on Central deputation, its not worth being in this state and fight with corrupt politics.
If he cannot do it at the State level , nothing can be done at the Centre. Running away from the problem is
not the solution — Jayashree
I have bribed once in my life to a Govt officer in Kerala to have him inspect my parents house to obtain a Corporation approval and address in Trivandrum. I was 14 years old and he might have been around 45 years. It was one of the most painful experiences in my life and I truly felt disgusted. Without paying the bribe, it was close to impossible to get them to inspect the property that was constructed per the corporation guidelines. I am glad that I had to opportunity to experience it at that young age and have never bribed since then.
To your question of fighting bribery in the State level, I agree that going to the Centre wouldnt make much of a difference. I am curios to know if there are other Civil Services employees in IAS, IPS, IFS, IRS etc. that have shown interest and worked towards cleaning up corruption? There is a famous IAS guy Raju Narayanaswamy from Kerala that fought it to an extend. I wonder if these IAS officers can start an initiative to fight against this together? Raju N Swamy I am sure would be willing to assist in this effort too.
I have seen many instances where my peers who have spent years trying to make it to the Civil services become as frustrated as your husband and I am sure they would be interested in working together with your husband and other civil servants towards this cause.
I appreciate your efforts in this cause. Please let me know if I can be of any help. Thanks, Anant (moc.liamg|alarek.tnana#moc.liamg|alarek.tnana)
Hi Jaya,
You are right..Going for central deputation is not an answer. We have to understand that the officers from state government are selected for central deputation and there is no gurantee that all central government officers are corruption free. Also if it is beleived that those on central deputation are corruption free or are efficent officers than it clearly means that those managing states are either incapable or are corrupt which is not true. The people managing state government should work according to Constitution of India. So Jaya's husban is very right by serving his home state and is fighting against his own corrupt and selfish bureaucratic fraternity.
Bhaskar Kanungo, JNU, Delhi
please as kspcb officials who got cancelled there transfers
send details to my email address - Jayashree
corrupt is like a termite, which has gone deeply in all Indian Administration system. But great soul like SIR, VIJAY KUMAR can bring differences by eradicatiing corrupt activities and making them public. If all like minded people come on one platform then there will be no place for corrupt people. God bless sir,vijay kumar and his mission, we all are with you.
Most of our citizens are apathetic. That is why our govt is so brazen in shielding corrupt officials and does not
prod our legislators to file their statement of assets and liabilities. The RTI is a weapon which can be used to
force govt to clean up. But I think it will take a few years for the citizens to recognise the weapon in their
hands and once they start using it effectively, the govt will recognise that the common man is the master and
the govt should work for his benefit.
KB PATIL
Hi, I may have joined thius discussion a little late. but nonetheless what i want to write is still relevant.
The solution is not to go from one place to another in the hope that the new place will be less corrupt. I am currently in the centre and am right now facing what jayashree's husband faced/or is still facing in the state. In fact I am myself thinking of a change of place as it has become almost impossible to stay here. the harrassment of a whistleblower is just too much. however, i feel, change of place is not the solution, change of mindset, of both, the corrupt and the honest. the change of mindset for the honest is to think that we can make a difference by each individual fight and that it is not right to give up the fight. further, the honest need to support each other whenever the ocassion arises.the change of mindset needed for the corrupt is for them to realise that they are not invincible and they are not above law.