Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office. (DR. JITENDRA SINGH)
(a) & (b): The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) tenders its advice on references received from Ministries / Departments/ Organisations against certain category of public servants under its jurisdiction. The CVC on considering the investigation reports furnished by the Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) or the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and depending on the facts of each case and the evidence/records available, advises:
(a) initiation of criminal and/or regular departmental action (major or minor) against the public servant(s) concerned;
(b) administrative action against public servants concerned; or
(c) closure of the case and such advices are termed as first stage advice.
The Ministries/ Departments/ Organisations initiate disciplinary action in individual cases and after completion of the proceedings, are required to consult CVC for its second stage advice only in cases wherein the disciplinary authorities choose to impose a penalty other than the major or minor penalty advised earlier as first stage advice.
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Break-up of first and second stage advices tendered by CVC during the years 2013, 2014 and 2015 is as under:
First Stage Advice tendered during 2013, 2014 and 2015
Year 2013 2014 2015
Criminal proceedings 97 93 64
Major penalty proceedings 537 624 550
Minor penalty proceedings 191 270 243
Administrative action, warning, caution etc. 458 707 543
Total 1283 1694 1400
Second Stage Advice tendered during 2013, 2014 and 2015
Year 2013 2014 2015
Major penalty 500 542 172
Minor penalty 181 229 156
Administrative action, warning, caution etc. 163 151 72
Total 843 922 400
As per information made available by the Departments/Organisations to CVC, the total number of major penalties, minor penalties etc. imposed on public servants of various categories during the year 2013, 2014 and 2015 are as below:-
Action taken by the Departments on advice tendered by CVC
Year Punishments Awarded
Major Penalty Minor Penalty Administrative Action Total
2013 1113 1141 426 2680
2014 863 838 443 2144
2015 1832 1346 414 3592
Prosecutions Sanctioned by the Departments
Year Prosecution sanctioned (number of officers)
2013 176
2014 133
2015 132
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Details of some of the organisations having maximum number of cases of prosecution sanctioned and penalties imposed where Commission’s advice was obtained during 2013 and 2014, are as under:
Sl. No. 2013 2014
Organization No Organisation No
1 Ministry of Railways 625 Ministry of Railways 487
2 Central Board of Excise and Customs 165 Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. 137
3 Bank of Baroda 154 State Bank of India 128
State Bank of India 132 Syndicate Bank 92
Department of Telecommunications 127 Department of Telecommunications 79
The details of cases recommended by the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) for punitive action during 2013 and 2014 and number of cases on which the departments and organisations concerned have taken action and also the number of cases on which the Commission did not receive action taken reports or were pending action on 1st stage and 2nd stage advices, have been reported in the CVC’s Annual Reports for the years 2013 and 2014.
(c) & (d): The Department wise details of the cases in which the departments/ organisations concerned had deviated/not accepted CVC’s advice or had taken a very lenient view and exonerated the officers and which were reported in the CVC’s Annual Reports’ during the years 2013 and 2014 are enclosed at Annexure ‘A’.
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