Central Vigilance Commissioner K.V.Chowdary has called upon people to be part of anti-corruption movement and youth to become change agents.
Addressing a three-day international symposium on “Social business for sustainable development,” organised by Andhra University and Yunus Centre, Bangladesh, here on Friday, he said people should speak out against corruption even when it did not involve them.
Speaking on “Integrity- Participation of public in anti-corruption movement,” he said the CVC accepted whistle blower complaints by taking the content and after ascertaining whether the complaint was actually lodged by the person but the identity was kept confidential.
On the magnitude of the task, he said the Commission received general complaints against corruption of about 80,000 a year and about half of them did not concern it, he said. Around 2,000 to 2,500 complaints were workable and in the normal process it should take a maximum one and a half years but was taking eight to nine years.
As many as 3,500 CBI cases were pending for more than five years and 500 for more than 20 years. If the State governments and other cases were included te task would be much more difficult, he said.
Policing everyone which he called “jasoosi system” was not going to run and hence people should participate in the movement against corruption, he said.
