Calls for end to corruption and nepotism from both Prime Minister of the Country Narendra Modi and as well as Jammu & Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha on no less important an occasion than the independence day shows greater concern of both the central and J&K Governments on institutional transparency in public life. This is not the first time that J&K Lt Governor Manoj Sinha has talked about his Government’s full fledged fight against corruption and nepotism but he has time and again reiterated his Government’s commitment to Zero tolerance against nepotism and corruption. Unending crackdown of anti-graft bodies of Jammu & Kashmir Government like J&K Anti-Corruption Bureau (J&K ACB) on corrupt people in the Government shows that the Government does not in any way tend to move away from the commitment to weed out corruption from institutions of governance. Though the displacement of some of the bureaucrats from the key positions in several departments after reports about their involvement in some scams in recent months has surely sent out messages of zero tolerance against corruption to people within and outside the Government, but it is also a fact that displacement of the corrupt bureaucrats is a practices which some previous popular governments had also pursued. So what matters is the introduction and implementation of a fast track strong investigation system in all the anti-graft bodies of Jammu & Kashmir Government particularly Jammu & Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (J&K ACB). Notably years of investigation in many corruption cases is yet to be concluded and as such change in investigation system could fast pace the processes of investigation in such corruption cases.
Never forget that Institutional accountability is an inalienable of a transparent investigation system. So once transparent investigation system is established the establishing of institutional accountability won’t be as big a challenge as it seems to be. So for establishing corruption free system of government the priority should be transparent investigation system. Irrefutable fact is that if priorities are fixed according to the plans the establishing and working of a transparent investigation system is not as big a challenge as it seems to be.
The Government’s increasing spirit of anti-corruption crusade demands that initiatives are taken for introducing some institutional and administrative changes in existing investigation practices and procedures for the purposes of making the entire investigation system a time consuming process. Never forget that commitments on employment opportunities, infrastructural development and industrial expansion can be fulfilled only in a corruption free system of governance. Irrefutable fact is that no Government in any part of the world can push forward the agendas of employment generation, infrastructural development and industrial expansion without institutionalising transparency. Never forget that Institutional accountability is an inalienable of a transparent investigation system. So once transparent investigation system is established the establishing of institutional accountability won’t be as big a challenge as it seems to be. So for establishing corruption free system of government the priority should be transparent investigation system. Irrefutable fact is that if priorities are fixed according to the plans the establishing and working of a transparent investigation system is not as big a challenge as it seems to be.
