45 senior officers faced action for poor performance: Narendra Modi

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said his government had taken several steps to make the bureaucracy performance-oriented and accountable even as it was committed to ensuring probity and protecting public servants from frivolous allegations.

He said the focus of his government was on providing system-based and policydriven governance. “A governance structure that is sensitive, transparent and accountable,“ he said Along with making bureaucracy effective, the PM said the NDA government was also “unsparing in punishing the corrupt“. He said 45 senior officers had either been removed or faced pension cuts for “unsatisfactory performance and delivery in public service“. The PM said that after assuming office, his government had taken several steps to check corruption and the menace of black money in a short span of time which included setting up an SIT under the supervision of the Supreme Court to look into the black money issue.

He added that the government had also entered into agreements with many countries for exchanging real-time information on black money besides signing an inter government agreement with the US to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.

“We have also introduced a provision under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act for restitution of assets.This will enable millions of poor investors who have lost money in ponzi schemes to recover a part of their hard earned money ,“ he added.