New Delhi: Parliamentary Panel has warned the government that corruption in the state-owned food company (FCI) can “spiral beyond control” if tight action is not taken.
The fixed committee for food and consumers has recommended the FCI to strengthen its vigilance mechanism and take strict punishment on those who are found guilty.
The panel led by the Trinamool Congress leader Bandyopadhyay has recommended that senior officers must be responsible for revoking corruption.
It also said FCI staff can be transferred after a peripan period to avoid the creation of personal interests.
“Committee members argue that corruption in FCI can come out of control if strict actions are not taken,” Panel said.
Registering his sadness over a delayed corruption case, the panel said even after taking various steps of improvement, 817 cases registered with FCI officials during 2017-18, 829, 691 cases in 2019-20 and 406 cases were submitted until 2017-20 and 406 September 2020.
Recommend that efforts must be made for the initial disposal of cases that are delayed due to delays in disposal cases of alertness will encourage corrupt practices and damage the legal authority.
It also needs to be noted about how three cases have been referred to the CBI and the other three to the CVC.
The panel has also marked how FCI cannot achieve physical and financial targets for warehouse construction at 2020-21.
It is said that the achievement is “Nile” in the Eastern United States where the FCI has set a 3 lakh ton storage target.
Likewise, for the remaining conditions, the physical target is 6,220 tons but the achievement is also “zero”.