Officials said the World Bank was impressed with the technological innovation in the especially designed project of the CVC -- VIG EYE -- a web-based system to report corruption by uploading videos, audios or raising complaints online which was showcased during a recently organised meet in the United States to discuss ways to check graft.
The second biennial meeting of the International Corruption Hunters Alliance (ICHA) was organised at World Bank headquarters in Washington and attended by representatives of 170 nations.
The ICHA, which is an initiative of the World Bank's Integrity Division, is a grouping of prosecutors, investigators, heads of anti-corruption authorities, supreme audit institutions and international organisations involved in anti-corruption activities.
The World Bank had specially invited R Sri Kumar, Vigilance Commissioner, and K Subramaniam, Director in the probity watchdog, to make a presentation on the 'VIG EYE' complaint handling system during the conference.
"The World Bank seems to be highly impressed with the initiative of VIG EYE as a technological innovation to fight corruption. VIG EYE attracted so much attention of the conference that the cover page of the agenda booklet of the conference carried a photo of Indian woman with mobiles illustrating the use of VIG EYE," an official said.
After the two-day conference held on June 5-6, a training workshop was organised for the participants at the George Washington University Law School, Washington on 'stolen asset recovery'.
Officials said the participants in the workshop were impressed with the CVC initiative and asked for another presentation.(MORE)
