"My Vision- Corruption Free India" Vigilance Awareness Week(30-10-2017 to 4-11-2017)
The Central Vigilance Commission, as part of its efforts to promote probity in public life and to achieve a corruption free society, observes Vigilance Awareness Week every year. The week in which 31st October, the birthday of late Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel falls is observed as Vigilance Awareness Week.
The 2017 Vigilance Awareness Week (VAW) will be observed by the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) from 30th October to 4th November, 2017 with theme “My Vision-Corruption Free India” ("मेरालक्ष्य - भ्रष्टाचारमुक्तभारत"). The Vice President of India Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu will be the Chief Guest at the Inaugural Function to be held on 30th October 2017. The purpose of observing VAW is to educate the public at large about the corruption related practices and also educating them how to report about it.
The observance of the Vigilance Awareness Week commenced with the Integrity Pledge by public servants in the Ministries/Departments/Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs)/Public Sector Banks (PSBs) and all other Organisations at 11.00 a.m.
The Central Vigilance Commissioner, Shri K.V. Chowdary said that the purpose of observing Vigilance Awareness Week is to educate the public at large about the corruption related practices and also educating them how to report about it.
He said that it acts like a mass movement of involving people in saying no to corruption. Chowdary said that to give recognition to the reforms and good work done by the organization in the field of punitive, preventive and participative vigilance, the Vigilance Excellence Awards have been instituted in two categories from this year onwards.
The Commission is developing an Integrity Index based on benchmarking of internal processes and controls within an organization as well as management of relationships and expectations of external stakeholders.
Initially, Integrity Index will be developed for 25 organisations including Government organisations and PSUs. This Integrity Index will be developed with technical support from IIM, Ahmedabad.
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