Gom Corruption

• No plan to curb poll panel's powers: Congress

  Union minister Kapil Sibal has denied reports that a Group of Minsters (GoM) on corruption is maneuvering to curb the powers of the Election Commission.

• Tackling corruption: New bill in winter session of Parliament

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has accepted the first report of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Corruption. A new bill to tackle corruption will now be introduced in the winter session of Parliament.

• Sharad Pawar quits ministers' panel in-charge of fighting corruption

  After he was criticised publically by Anna Hazare and other social activists for being part of a Group of Ministers (GoM) to check corruption in the government, Sharad Pawar has quit the panel. Mr Pawar is Agriculture Minister and his Nationalist Congress Party is an important partner in the UPA coalition at the centre.Veteran social activist Anna ...

• Group of Ministers suggests scrapping of discretionary quota to tackle corruption

  Cornered by a string of scams, the Centre has set the ball rolling on tackling corruption. The Group of Ministers (GoM) on Corruption which met in New Delhi on Monday night has decided to recommend, among other proposals, the scrapping of discretionary quotas in all ministries. The eight-member panel was formed last month and has sixty days to come...

• Pranab calls ministers' meeting to check corruption

  Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has convened the first meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on corruption later in the day, which among other things, would discuss steps to fast-track cases of corruption against public servants.     The meeting of the GoM, according to sources, will be attended by several senior ministers, ...

• GoM to consider fast tracking corruption cases against officials

  Fast tracking corruption cases against public servants and amendment to the Constitution to provide for summary proceedings in cases of grave misdemeanour involving bureaucrats, would form part of the terms of reference of the Group of Ministers formed to tackle the menace.The GoM, headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, has been asked to repo...

• CWG audit has tough deadline: Three months

  The man who will lead a massive audit of the Commonwealth Games has set an ambitious deadline.  In three months, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) says, his team will present its findings on the Games to the government.The Games were suffused with an array of corruption charges. Now, 24 government departments - 14 of them belonging to ...