Odisha Chief Secretary Orders Preventive Vigilance Push to Curb Corruption

Overview

• Chief Secretary Manoj Ahuja issued a letter Thursday to additional chief secretaries, principal secretaries, the Vigilance DG, revenue divisional commissioners and district collectors.
• Every department must form an Internal Vigilance Committee to map sensitive areas and draw up short- and long-term action plans.
• Departments are directed to scale up EoDB, WAMIS, e-tendering and e-procurement, Work Passbook, DBT and online HR systems to reduce discretion and improve monitoring.
• Transparent staffing rules are to be enforced, including staff rotation, fair online transfers and exclusion of officials of doubtful integrity from sensitive roles.
• Offices are to display service timelines under the ORTPS Act, track compliance on dashboards and actively use citizen feedback systems.