Transcript Vigilance - A management tool

VIGILANCE:
A MANAGEMENT TOOL
PERTINENT FOR APDs/APCs
By
D.S. Mishra
CVO, AAI
NIAMAR: 09.02.09
CORPORATE MISSION:
To achieve highest standards of safety and quality in
air traffic services and airport management by
providing state-of-the- art infrastructure for total
customer satisfaction, contributing to economic
growth and prosperity of the nation.
CORPORATE VISION:
To be a world-class organization providing leadership
in air traffic services and airport management &
making a major hub in Asia Pacific region by 2016.
What is Vigilance?
Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘Vigilant’
as keeping careful watch to avoid possible
danger or difficulties.
For example, parents keep a watch over
young children to avoid any untoward
incident or accident.
What is Vigilance?
(Contd.)
‘Vigilance’ in the context of an organization
means:
Keeping a watchful eye on the
activities of the Unit’s personnel
and taking prompt action to promote
ethical practices and ensure
integrity and honesty in the official
transactions.
Why Vigilance?
• There are individuals who indulge in
unethical activities of getting personal gains
at the cost of the organization.
• Such persons infect others leading to
wastes, losses and economic decline.
• Their acts damage the image and goodwill of
the organization.
• Hence, to rein such persons misendeavours and promote organizational
interest, vigilance is required.
Why Vigilance?
(contd.)
Vigilance helps in:
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Enhancing the image of the organization;
Promoting culture of honesty & integrity;
Reducing wastages/ leakages;
Improving productivity;
Ascertaining accountability;
Increasing transparency and fairness;
Protecting honest performers;
Disciplining the wrong-doers; and
Striving for zero tolerance to corruption.
Where Vigilance?
Vigilance is essential everywhere. However, a
focused attention is required where,
• Officials have high discretions;
• There is scope for jumping the queue;
• Rules/ procedures are complex;
• Accountability is low;
• Delay in decision making is detrimental;
• Opportunities to negotiate exist; and
• Individuals are prone to corruption.
What is Vigilance Angle?
• Demanding and/ or accepting gratification for an
official act or influencing others;
• Obtaining valuables without consideration/ with
inadequate consideration from someone in official
dealing directly/ indirectly;
• Obtaining himself or for others valuables or pecuniary
benefits by corrupt or illegal means or by abusing
power;
• Possession of assets disproportionate to income;
• Misappropriation, forgery or cheating etc; and
• Other irregularities, which cast doubt on integrity.
How Vigilance?
• Preventive Vigilance, that includes
simplifying rules/ procedures; curtailing
discretions; improving transparency,
fairness, competitiveness and
accountability; promoting awareness
among clients; educating/ sensitizing the
officials through workshops, seminars and
training programmes; and posting officials
of clean integrity on sensitive posts.
How vigilance?
(Contd.)
• Reactive Vigilance, that involves carrying out
investigation and taking punitive action by
initiating disciplinary/ criminal proceedings
against the corrupt officials.
• Surveillance and Detective Vigilance, that
entails conducting surprise inspections;
scrutinizing Annual Property Returns; and
cultivating other sources for detecting
corruption entrepreneurs to ensure clean
functioning in the organization.
What is Corruption?
Use of public office for private gains.
-World Bank
Corruption =
Mystification + Discretion
- Accountability
How to Curb Corruption?
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Identify complex rules/ procedures & simplify;
Assist in curtailing discretions;
Enhance transparency & fairness in action;
Follow rules & regulations and record reasons
for deviations, if any;
• Maintain devotion to duty, high level of
integrity and commitment to Authority;
• Facilitate promotion of ethical culture; and
• Help in creating corruption free environment.
What to be Ensured?
Fundamental elements to ensure
corruption-free delivery:
• Accountability;
• Competition;
• Transparency;
• Fairness;
• Avoid Discretion;
• Simplification; and
• Timeliness.
Is Vigilance a Management Tool?
Yes,
• Vigilance helps in improving efficiency and
effectiveness of the personnel and the
organization;
• Vigilance boosts clean business transactions,
professionalism, productivity, promptness,
ethical practices and impartiality; and
• Vigilance assists in systemic improvements to
curb opportunities for corruption.
Do Not be Afraid of Vigilance
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Vigilance does not harass any personnel but helps
the management in improving the system and
work environment through following actions:
Protecting the honest personnel;
Encouraging whistle blowers;
Doing justice to the person who takes wrong
decision in business interest with no mala-fide;
Initiating action against corrupt officials; and
Creating ethical and healthy work culture.
Corporate Vigilance Directorate
• Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) heads the
Corporate Vigilance Directorate (CVD) and is
appointed by the Central Government with the
concurrence of CVC. His office is at Corporate
Head Quarters, New Delhi .
• GM(Vig) and other Vigilance Officers are
mainly deputed from various wings of AAI.
• CVD has the responsibility of maintaining
probity, honesty and integrity in the
organization.
Vigilance Organization
• Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is the
apex body constituted by the government to
exercise general superintendence and control
over vigilance matters.
• Chief Technical Examiner’s Organization
(CTEO) is the technical wing of CVC.
• Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) is the
prime investigation agency constituted by
Central Government for investigating special
crimes and corruption cases.
How to Contact?
CVC:
http://www.cvc.nic.in
CVO:
http://www.aai.aero/about aai/vigilance
http://infosaarathee/vigilance
Email:
[email protected]
Corruption Perception Index (CPI)*
Rank
Country
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
1
Denmark
9.5
9.5
9.5
9.4
9.3
1
Finland
9.7
9.6
9.6
9.4
9.0
1
New
Zealand
9.6
9.6
9.6
9.4
9.3
20
USA
7.5
7.6
7.3
7.2
7.3
46
Bhutan
6.0
5.0
5.2
72
India
2.8
2.9
3.3
3.5
3.4
72
Brazil
3.9
3.7
3.3
3.5
3.5
72
China
3.4
3.2
3.3
3.5
3.6
94
Sri Lanka
3.5
3.2
3.1
3.2
3.2
131
Nepal
2.8
2.5
2.5
2.5
2.7
138
Pakistan
2.1
2.1
2.2
2.4
2.5
162
Bangladesh
1.5
1.7
2.0
2.0
2.1
179
Somalia
1.4
1.0
* Prepared by Transparency International (Source: http://www.transparency.org)
CPI=10 means most honest and CPI=0 menas most corrupt.
Corruption Perception Index Rank
COUNTRY
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
Finland
1
1
2
1
1
5
Denmark
3
3
4
4
1
1
New Zealand
3
2
2
1
1
1
Iceland
2
1
1
1
6
7
USA
18
17
17
20
20
18
32
46
45
Bhutan
2008
India
83
90
88
70
72
85
China
66
71
78
70
72
72
Brazil
54
59
62
70
72
80
Sri Lanka
66
67
78
84
94
92
90
117
125
131
121
Nepal
Pakistan
92
129
144
142
138
134
Bangladesh
133
145
158
156
162
147
179
180
179
180
Somalia
No. of Countries
133
146
159
163
* Prepared by Transparency International (Source: http://www.transparency.org)
Some Inspiring Quotes
• On this earth there is enough for every ones
need but not for their greed.
M.K. Gandhi
• No legacy is as rich as honesty.
Shakespeare
• Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and
dreadful.
Samuel Johnson
• Even when there is no law there is conscience.
Annonymous
Some Inspiring Quotes
(Contd.)
• Do not do what you would undo if caught.
Leah Arendt
• An honest man is the noblest work of god.
Alexander Pope
• The wealth earned through pious means
flourishes, and that through dishonest ways brings
destruction ultimately.
Atharva Veda
Some Inspiring Quotes
(Contd.)
• He is most free from danger, who, even when
safe, is on his guard.
Publilius Syrus
• Where vigilance creeps in, corruption jumps out.
Anonymous
• Bright future awaits the honest, shady past haunts
the corrupt.
Anonymous
• The inevitable becomes intolerable, the moment it
is perceived as no more inevitable.
Alexender de Tocqueville
Thank you