PM Urges Civil Servants to Use IT to Fight Corruption
For fighting corruption and ensuring equitable benefits of the government’s developmental schemes to the poor, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has urged civil servants to use information technology (IT), said media reports.
“It is incumbent upon us to ensure that no area of our country is denied the benefits of our ambitious developmental programmes,” Singh was quoted as saying in his address in a function on the occasion of Civil Services Day.
The prime minister asked administrators to take resort to the tools of technology to redress complaints of corruption and lack of transparency, reports said.
“It is up to you to devise innovative ways and means, to harness the tools of IT and to involve the intended beneficiaries in implementation so that complaints of corruption and complaints of lack of transparency get addressed.
“Every effort must be made to make full use of the potentialities of the Panchayati Raj System for effective decentralized and socially just development,” he was quoted as saying.
It man be mentioned that as per the latest survey conducted by global corruption watchdog Transparency International, India is ranked 84 among 180 countries on the integrity score.
The ranking means that 83 other countries are less corrupt than India.
(Based on internet reports)
