Putting in place a set of measures to check corruption, the government on Wednesday announced a legal architecture to fast track corruption cases against public servants. These include setting up of 71 fast-track special CBI courts, fixing a limit of three months to grant sanction for prosecution and strengthening the vigilance administration.
The decisions, which would be implemented soon through issuance of government orders, were taken on the basis of the recommendations of a Group of Ministers (GoM) to curb corruption, headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
A new policy and a bill on public procurement will be tabled in the Winter Session of Parliament to tackle corruption and make the procedure more transparent, Law Minister Salman Khursheed and Minister of State for Personnel V Narayanasamy told reporters here.
"The first report of the GoM has been submitted to the government and the prime minister has approved many of the recommendations," Narayanasamy said.
Asked whether anti-graft measures were being announced under the impact of the Anna Hazare agitation, he reminded that the GoM on corruption was set up on January 6 much before Hazare began his fast.