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CVC's e-initiative gets over 5,000 graft complaints

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 20 2013 | 3:44 AM IST

People have registered complaints through project Vigeye, a special website launched to encourage people to report corruption by uploading videos, audios or raising complaints online through it, CVC officials said.

The project was launched by former Central Vigilance Commissioner P J Thomas in December 2010.

Speaking at a recent conference, Vigilance Commissioner R Srikumar had given examples of how common citizens brought corruption cases to the notice of CVC using Vigeye and how action was taken against whom the charges were proved.

"In our fight against corruption, participation from every stakeholder namely, employees, officers, customers, citizens etc. Was important. Empowering citizens to participate in vigilance was necessary.

"There are 255 districts in the country where rule of law does not work and extremism had taken deep root. The rule of law should be upheld. Project 'Vigeye' is an example of participative vigilance. The application, which can be downloaded, enables any person to act against corruption, instead of simply grumbling about it," he has said.

Srikumar said that more than 5,000 complaints had been received under Vigeye. "There was a need to take this system to the next level by putting in place necessary infrastructure like a call centre to handle the large number of complaints," he added. (MORE)

  

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First Published: May 29 2012 | 3:35 PM IST

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