Centre plans to cut down on Chief Vigilance Officers in public sector enterprises

NEW DELHI: Planning to cut down on the number of Chief Vigilance Officers (CVOs) in Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs), the government has decided to ask all ministries whether one CVO can look after two or more organisations.

The Department of Personnel and Training also wants the ministries to review extra pay, incentives, pay structure and allowances to CVOs in the government undertakings.

A letter seeking various information about CVOs has been sent by DoPT to the Central Vigilance Commission, which would forward it to the ministries.

The ministries have been asked if a full-time CVO was required in organisations under their administrative control and give their opinion on whether the post of CVO of two or more organisations can be clubbed together.

The ministries have been asked to furnish details about their staff strength, the volume of vigilance work in the PSEs and also their turnover in the last five years.

There are 297 PSEs--234 operating and 56 non-operating. Seven public sector undertakings belong to insurance and banking sector.

The ministries have also been asked to suggest whether they wanted the post of CVOs to be continued at the current level, upgraded or downgraded or abolished in tune with the workload and requirement of vigilance-related matters.

All ministries have been asked to submit their response in 15 days.