Tribune News Service
New Delhi, August 30
The CBI today conducted joint surprise checks at 150 places in the country with the vigilance teams of the Central government departments, union territories and public sectors undertakings, officials said.
They said the move was aimed at taking forward Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s message of ease of living and so, the checks were conducted at such points where common citizens or small businessmen feel the “maximum pinch of corruption in the government machinery”.
The checks were conducted in Delhi, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Guwahati, Srinagar, Shillong, Chandigarh, Shimla, Chennai, Madurai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, Gandhinagar, Goa, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Nagpur, Patna, Ranchi, Ghaziabad, Lucknow and Dehradun, they officials said.
They refused to comment if it was a first such exercise in Srinagar since August 5 when the Centre revoked Jammu and Kashmir’s special status under Article 370 They, however, said the drive will sensitise all stakeholders about possible avenues of corruption and difficulties common citizens face while seeking services from such departments.
The drive covers only Central government departments and Central PSUs and public sector banks besides union territories as the agency does not have mandate in state governments unless a notification is issued by the government concerned or an order of a high court or the Supreme Court.
The departments covered during the surprise checks include the railways, coal mines, coalfields, medical and health care organisations, customs and FCI. Other departments were power, municipal corporations, ESIC, transport, CPWD, directorate of estates, fire services, sub registrar office, GST, ports, national highways, DAVP, Airport Authority of India, public sector oil companies, DGFT, public sector banks, ASI, shipping corporation, BSNL, steel PSU, mines and minerals.
Rs 3-cr assets ATTACHED
- The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it has attached assets worth Rs 3.14 crore in Delhi, Punjab and Goa in connection with a money laundering probe linked to an online drug trafficking case.
- The federal probe agency has issued a provisional order for attachment of immovable and movable assets of people identified as Amit Kohli, Diwakar Gupta and others.
- “The accused persons were involved in illegal online export of prescription drugs and psychotropic substances after taking online orders from US-based clients and the orders were being delivered through the post office,” the ED said.
- The agency said several properties and bank accounts belonging to the accused, their relatives and Ad Buildwell Pvt Ltd have been identified. TNS
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