The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) in its annual report has recorded more than 50 cases of alleged corruption, nepotism, high-handedness last year, but the concerned authorities have failed to take any action even after being informed by the anti-corruption unit, a report by ‘The Indian Express’ has said .
In the report submitted to the government this month, the CVC has said that in several of these cases, the CBI has lodged FIRs, suggested suspension of involved officials and action against senior functionaries of these departments. However, its advice was not acted upon in a proper manner.
As per CVC’s report, most numbers of these cases were related to the Ministry of Railways (12), PSU banks (7), Ministry of Civil Aviation (5) and Central Excise and Customs (4).
The report also said that one of the cases involved the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). The CBI had registered a case against Kandla Port Trust (KPT) officials for irregularities in the grant of 129.9 metres of cargo berth without the consent of the government and out-of-turn berthing to a few vessels through unfair means.
“After completion of the investigation, the CBI recommended action against the then Chairman of KPT among others following which CVC advised major penalty,” the report states.
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“However, the commission was intimated by MoRTH in December 2016 that there has been neither mala-fide intention on the part of the official concerned nor any loss of revenue to the port, hence the disciplinary authority has not accepted the advice of the CVC/CBI for initiating penalty against the then Chairman, KPT and has decided to close the case,” it adds.