By Archana Sharma

Jaipur, Feb 13 (IANS): Rajasthan’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) is drawing laurels all throughout the state for its out of the field concepts towards corruption, and has smashed all information by arresting corrupt officers from completely different streams following progressive approaches.

Final 12 months, the ACB arrested 32 officers of the Authorities of India in bribery instances and disposed of 575 instances. A complete of 430 traps have been laid in 2021 to nab corrupt personnel whereas taking bribes, which is the best quantity ever for the reason that bureau was arrange, mentioned B.L. Soni, Director Normal (DG), ACB, Rajasthan.

Instances have been registered towards two IAS, one IPS, one IRS, 12 RAS and 5 RPS amongst over 100 senior officers, pendency of round 1,600 instances was eliminated by working 24by7 even in the course of the pandemic occasions.

How all this was performed? An officer says, “All this was performed with a strategic transfer. The ACB workforce revamped itself and adopted artistic strategy by circulating attention-grabbing memes, posters, artistic espresso mugs and adopting villages. The truth is, the ACB sleuths are branding themselves as ‘Rakhi Bhais’ to individuals and advising them to cease giving their hard-earned cash for bribing officers, he knowledgeable, including, “The workforce not too long ago adopted 51 villages and made individuals pledge that their hard-earned cash won’t be wasted in bribing officers.”

“We’ve got apprised the villagers that we’re like their Rakhi Bhais and are right here to assist them save their hard-earned cash. ‘Do not waste your funds in giving bribe’, is what we’re educating them.

“The truth is, we’ve been taking authorities welfare schemes to them, asking beneficiaries to fill the varieties and be sure that these varieties attain the suitable place in order that there isn’t any scope of corruption in between.

“We conceptualised attention-grabbing slogan, “Mehnat ki Gaadi Kamayen Ko Rishwatkhoron mein nahin lutayen, aye hamare move and criticism karayen.”

The workforce has spared nobody and arrested an RPSC official on cost of accepting Rs 23 lakh bribe for assuring candidate of clearing interviews, arrested former SP Dausa for demanding month-to-month bribe of Rs 10 lakh towards a venture and plenty of others seniors have been nabbed too.

The ACB additional celebrated the anti-corruption day as a gratitude day the place all these victims who approached us within the final 10 years have been recognized and invited to workplace to make sure they aren’t dealing with any downside for performing as whistleblowers.

How did the concept of beginning the innovation got here up, IANS inquired and Soni mentioned, “We began with a toll quantity. On evaluation, we discovered that complaints coming should not being entertained and therefore we deputed senior official to make sure all complaints are being addressed. Then, we launched a WhatsApp quantity too to make sure we attain the victims at their doorstep on the earliest. We promoted 1064 quantity with memes and cartoons, so calls elevated and traps elevated, we made our audio messages viral and therefore outcomes got here.

“We strengthened our inner vigilance, transferred our corrupt officers and even arrested our personal workforce members crimson handed. Additional, the complainants have been educated to make use of audio video recordings, he added smilingly.

“We re-engineered our personal steps and set deadlines to carry tempo to the method.

“Throughout Covid, we known as common video conferences and educated our workers by inviting officers from the CBI, prosecution department, and senior ACB officers.

“The ACB is presently fine-tuning a number of course of and is engaged on misuse of official positions,” he knowledgeable.