In a major boost to the ‘zero-tolerance for corruption‘ policy by the UP CM Yogi Adityanath, more than 1000 government employees of different cadres have lost their jobs due to ‘inefficient and corrupt’ working practices in the state government.
Crux of the Matter
The UP CM has retired 37 employees in various cadres in the Transport Department, 36 in the Revenue Department and 26 in the Basic Education Department.
Most recently, IAS Rajiv Kumar was served a notice of forced retirement. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer who has faced serious charges of corruption in Noida and has even gone to jail.
Apart from this, 25 officials in the Panchayati Raj Department, 18 in the Public Works Department, 16 each in the Labour Department, Institutional Finance and Commercial Tax Department have been sent for forced retirement.
From July 2014 to May 2019, the Modi government has officially retired or recommended compulsory retirement of 312 government officers from the Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ services.
27 senior officials, including principal and chief commissioners in the tax department, were forced to retire in June 2019.
Five IAS officers also have been made to resign for overstaying their foreign assignments.
According to disciplinary rules, the government has the right to proceed against corrupt officials on the basis of available evidence.
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Corruption is an issue which adversely affects India’s economy of central, state and local government agencies. A study conducted by Transparency International in 2015 recorded that more than 62% of Indians had at some point or another paid a bribe to a public official to get a job done. In 2018 the Corruption Perception Index ranked India at 78th place out of 180. The largest contributors to corruption are entitlement programs and social spending schemes enacted by the Indian government. Examples include the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and the National Rural Health Mission. The causes of corruption in India include excessive regulations, complicated tax and licensing systems, numerous government departments with opaque bureaucracy and discretionary powers and monopoly of government-controlled institutions on certain goods. More Info
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