Vittal calls for a `Neutral body’ to decide on govt posts

Calling for stemming corruption from the grassroot level, Vittal said, “Law breakers should not become law makers.”

“The politicians said that the law should take its course,but law takes its own long course, giving space to criminalization politics,” Vittal said.

“The corrupt officials are like fish in water. No one could say when the fish consumed water. Similarly, it is difficult to trace when the beraucrats made money from the government expenditure,” he added.

Citing another example, Vittal said, “So much money had come from abroad for the cyclone victims of Orissa, but where is it?”

He said in February last, he had sent a proposal to the Law Commissioner, Jeevan Reddy to enact a law though which the properties of corrupt officials could be traced and attached by the CVC.

“No action has so far been taken in this front though the Centre has declared that there would be zero tolerance for corruption,” Vittal said.

Since July 12 this year the CVC had received 368 complaints against corrupt official, of which 110 were anonymous and could not considered, 17 were true and in one case raid had already been successfully carried out, he said.

In the meanwhile, the chief vigilance commissioner asked India to become self-sufficient in defence production and stop importing weapons from foreign countries. Asking for a military industrial complex in the country, Vittal said, “If China can do it, why not India?” and dismissed the view that by doing so India could be blamed for militarisation of the region.

Addressing representatives of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) here after inaugurating its 46th National convention at Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh Nagar, he said, “When China exploded nuclear bombs, Beijing was declared a nuclear power. Whereas in the case of India, sanctions were imposed”.

He said, “India can become both an economic superpower as well as military superpower. We have the potential but we never realised that like Hanuman

was unaware of his strength.”

Even after 10 years of collapse of USSR, India instead of becoming self-sufficient in defence sector is depending on overseas sources, Vittal lamented. “Like China we should go for a military industrial complex and after its requirement India should export the defence armament and missiles the way Beijing is doing,” he said.

He also said the over-emphasis on technological education,including information technology, should not push the humanitarian subjects. “We need to be careful on the subject of education as it should not be made a commodity,” he said.