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‘Long way to go to ensure probity’
Amid continued attack on his Government over corruption, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday acknowledged that the regime has a long way to go in its efforts to ensure transparency, accountability and probity in public life.
The PM noted that the UPA Government has taken several steps in the last one year to reduce opportunities for corruption in public life. “But we still have a long way to go in our efforts for ensuring transparency, accountability and probity in public life,” he said while speaking in the Conference of Chief Secretaries, just a day after the Supreme Court cancelled 122 licences of 2G spectrum.
Delivering his speech on one of the topics for discussion in the conference, ‘Transparent and Accountable Governance - Effective Public Service Delivery Systems’, Singh reminded the gathering about his comments made in the same conference last year in which he had emphasised the need for a systemic response that reduces the opportunities for corruption in our public life.
“I had stated that our Government was committed to taking all legal and administrative measures to curb corruption in public life. I had also said that we should make full use of advances in modern technology to improve the delivery of our public services system,” he said.
The PM claimed that the Government has moved “substantially forward in these areas in the last one year”. Listing the efforts, he mentioned the introduction in Parliament of the Citizens’ Charter Bill and the Electronic Delivery of Services Bill.
However, he regretted that the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill could not be passed in the last session of Parliament but hoped that the Government would be able to enact a strong Lokpal law soon.
Amid continued attack on his Government over corruption, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday acknowledged that the regime has a long way to go in its efforts to ensure transparency, accountability and probity in public life.
The PM noted that the UPA Government has taken several steps in the last one year to reduce opportunities for corruption in public life. “But we still have a long way to go in our efforts for ensuring transparency, accountability and probity in public life,” he said while speaking in the Conference of Chief Secretaries, just a day after the Supreme Court cancelled 122 licences of 2G spectrum.
Delivering his speech on one of the topics for discussion in the conference, ‘Transparent and Accountable Governance - Effective Public Service Delivery Systems’, Singh reminded the gathering about his comments made in the same conference last year in which he had emphasised the need for a systemic response that reduces the opportunities for corruption in our public life.
“I had stated that our Government was committed to taking all legal and administrative measures to curb corruption in public life. I had also said that we should make full use of advances in modern technology to improve the delivery of our public services system,” he said.
The PM claimed that the Government has moved “substantially forward in these areas in the last one year”. Listing the efforts, he mentioned the introduction in Parliament of the Citizens’ Charter Bill and the Electronic Delivery of Services Bill.
However, he regretted that the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill could not be passed in the last session of Parliament but hoped that the Government would be able to enact a strong Lokpal law soon.
