Bharat with 70 percent of its population rural based and poor is down in the list of world’s corrupt countries. When government at the centre takes to put only the “numerical data’ of the govt. officials facing corruption charges and not their names in the public domain, isn’t it valid to say ‘protecting the corrupt is hurting poor nation’.
The Central Information Commission (CIC) in its latest directive to the Department of Personnel and Training is that “numerical data and not the names should be brought out in the public domain. So much so, the Information Commissioner Yashvardhan Azad’s reported categoric direction is ‘in no circumstances, names of the employees facing the charges shall be disclosed.
S.S. Bijral former IGP and BJP state spokesperson evaluating said the direction aims at protecting the corrupt by denying nationalistic forces the opportunity to staying alive to the cases once mentioned by name in public domain and to actively pursuing them with the help of proactive media to early logical conclusion.
Former senior cop said the legal trial is not a formality, but is aimed at rendering the society crime free. With deterrent effect of law disappeared, humans minds are more crime prone and crime graph showing no tilt, it is responsibility of institution like Central Information Commission to be more explicit in exposing the corrupt rather than covering them up.CIC at the centre has to be model for the states for the menace of corruption has equally strong tentacles in the states.
Let’s not forget the sea change poor nation brought through their ballot in 2014 was to bare and nail the corrupt, and encourage and honour those sweating and dying for the country on the border and the field.
