Dimapur, Sep. 27 (EMN): While supporting the August 25 resolution of the ACAUT rally, Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation (NVCO) has demanded the State government to summon a special session to pass the Lokayukta Bill 2017 and terminate all backdoor appointments made post June 6, 2016.
NVCO has urged the State government to pass the Lokayukta Bill 2017 to check all forms of corruptions, mismanagement and siphoning of public funds and immediately terminate all backdoor appointments made after June 6, 2016.
Recalling the ACAUT rally held in Kohima on October 31, 2014, NVCO president and convenor of ACAUT Nagaland (legal cell), Kezhokhoto Savi, stated that one of its resolutions was the demand to the State government constitute anti-corruption ombudsman called Nagaland Lokayukta Act to be passed in assembly during the winter session 2014 and to give teeth to Nagaland Lokayukta and to set up a CBI branch office in the State.
NVCO had also submitted a representation to the chief minister on May 11, 2017, with a demand to set up Lokayukta in Nagaland considering the present scenario of corruption in Nagaland.
The word Lokayukta is derived from Sanskrit which means “appointed by the people.” It is an anti-corruption ombudsman organisation in the Indian states and the origin could be trace back to the ombudsman in Scandinavian countries. It is an anti-corruption act or considered as a watchdog to pinpoint the wrong doing of the administration, to look into the complaint of the people and to suggest measures to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the government.
As corruption in public life is a gross violation of human rights, Kezhokhoto Savi has urged the State government to set up Lokayukta in order to curb corruption in an independent manner by not allowing the State government in granting of ‘prosecution sanction’ to dilute the powerful functions of the institution in true sense.
