Over 200 corruption complaints pending with CVOs, 105 for more than three years: Central Vigilance Commission

The CVC’s annual report 2020 was tabled in Parliament during the recently concluded Monsoon Session and uploaded on its website on Tuesday.

A total of 219 corruption complaints were pending investigation with the Chief Vigilance Officers (CVOs), 105 of those for over three years, of various government organisations as on December 31, 2020, probity watchdog CVC has said in its latest report. It is expected of the CVOs, who act as a distant arm of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), that they would check corruption in a government department and conclude an investigation ideally within three months or as soon as possible thereafter, it said. “At the end of the year 2020, in respect of such complaints that were referred by the Commission to the CVOs for investigation, reports were awaited in 219 complaints out of which 58 were pending for up to one year, 56 were pending for a period between one to three years and 105 were pending for a period of over three years,” said the CVC’s annual report 2020.