Monday, December 7, 2009

[ZESTCaste] No discrimination against SC/ST officials in Western Coal: Govt

 

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No discrimination against SC/ST officials in Western Coal: Govt

Updated on Monday, December 07, 2009, 19:03 IST

New Delhi: The government today said 80 per cent officials of the
western coal sector, on whom a watch was being kept for indulging in
corrupt practices, belong to general category and there was no
discrimination against those belonging to SC/ST.

Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said in the Rajya Sabha that if any
official is found indulging in corrupt practices, there is a system
for putting that official under the agreed list, which carries the
names of those officers against whom there are complaints of
corruption.

People under this list are secretly inquired by the CBI, especially
about their assets and financial resources and the agency also
collects information of specific instances of bribery and corruption
practices besides keeping a close watch on their lifestyle, he said.

"I would like to inform that among the officials of WCL, who have been
put under agreed list, 80 per cent belong to general category while 20
per cent officials belong to SC/ST category," he said during Question
Hour.

In 2007, three general category officers of WCL were kept in the
agreed list, while there was no officer from the SC/ST category. In
2008, there was only one SC officer in it while seven general category
officers were there. In 2009, there were four SC/ST officers in the
list and the number of general category officers were 15," he said.

Jaiswal accepted that the existing system is "not transparent all the
time" and whenever there is a case of discrimination it is taken into
consideration.

-PTI

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