Key sentence:
- The Centre has received almost 40,000 Covid-19-related corruption complaints.
- The issue came up at the PRAGATImeeting on November 25,” said an official who did not wish to be identified.
- The data demanded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was being collected and will be addressed to him at Monday’s follow-up meeting.
The Centre has received almost 40,000 Covid-19-related corruption complaints, officials familiar with the situation told the Hindustan Times.
A separate portal by GovernmentGovernment:
The GovernmentGovernment set up a separate
platform in April this year to promptly resolve any complaints related to the coronavirus pandemic, and it has received over 167,000 complaints so far of which more than 150,000 have been answered.
On the Department of Administrative Changes and Public Grievances website, the complaints were collected. Bribery, embezzlement of funds, and abuse by government officials when dealing with Covid-19 cases are the corruption allegations, which are sorted according to ministries.
The Camp meeting PRAGATI:
“The issue came up at the PRAGATImeeting on November 25,” said an official who did not wish to be identified. PRAGATI (Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation) involves multiple ministries and is also the administrative reform program launched in 2015 by the GovernmentGovernment.
As the official stated:
“The Prime Minister wanted to know at the meeting how many of the complaints he collected were about corruption as well as how they were dealt with the official said.
Officials said the data demanded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was being collected and will be addressed to him at Monday’s follow-up meeting. “The PM wanted to address the nature of the complaints about the three Ps – individuals, process as well as policy,” said the official stated above.
On April 1, the sources reported that most of the Covid-19 complaints had previously revolved around visa penalties, bringing back stranded Indians through abroad as well as the availability of critical services.
Complaints in the categories are:
The categories in which the complaints are filed are: inadequate hospital facilities, issue of donation to the PMCares fund, failure to provide critical materials, requests for rescue from a foreign country, being trapped somewhere due to lockdown, abuse, non-compliance with lockdown, examination-related, quarantine-related, suggestions and others recorded by sources.
