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| Kathmandu, Saturday April 27, 2002 Baishakh 14, 2059. |
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Commission to probe property
of govt staff
Post Report
KATHMANDU, April 26:In a bid to combat ever-
increasing corruption in government offices, the High-Level Property Probe Commission is
to send its officials to all 75 districts of the country to investigate into the sources
of income of government officials who have worked in "advantageous posts".
Source related with the commission said that the
newly formed government body is now busy compiling detailed information of the offices and
the staff there.
"The commission staff will leave for their
destination in one or two days and investigate into the property of the staff with the
help of concerned Local Administration Office," the source said.
He said in such areas where sending the
officials immediately is not possible due to technical problems, questionnaires will be
dispatched through post or similar means and follow ups will be carried on.
The high-level commission will investigate the
property of the government staff, present or retired, and make a report on it.
The government constituted a
three-member-commission recently under the leadership of the present judge at the Supreme
Court Bhairav Prasad Lamsal.
It possesses the right to probe property of
third class officers, chiefs of all the government and semi-government institutions and
those who come up with unnatural or undisclosable sources of income would be marked down
for action as corrupts.
The commission has set up six divisions —
parliament, security, jurisdiction, constitutional bodies, autonomous bodies like boards,
centres and companies, banks and financial institutions.
However, though it had urged all government
officials to submit description of their property within 15 days, only a few have obeyed
the call of the commission in time. No one from the cabinet, except one minister of state,
has submitted account to the commission.
Only State Minister for Foreign Affairs,
parliamentarians Ram Chandra Bhattarai, Mohan Bahadur Bam, Netralal Shrestha, Ram Man
Shrestha have provided the commission with the details it sought.
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