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| Posted: 26 Aug 2011 06:06 AM PDT Patna Justice Chandra Mohan Prasad, has sworn in as new Lokayukta of Bihar. A retired judge of Patna high court, Jusrice Prasad took oath as 7th Lokayakuta of Bihar on Thursday at a simple function at Raj Bhawan. Governor Devanand Konwar administered the oath of office and secrecy to Justice Prasad. Chief minister Nitish Kumar, deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, chairman of Bihar Legislative Council Tara Kant Jha, and a host of ministers, besides chief secretary Anup Mukherjee and other senior official were present. Justice Prasad retired as judge of Patna high court in February this year. He replaced Justice R N Prasad, whose completed his term on Wednesday. |
| Bihar uses Youtube to fight corruption Posted: 26 Aug 2011 03:05 AM PDT Patna:-Nitish government has decided to use YouTube as a new tool to expose corrupt and bribe-seekers,” Bihar Rural Development Minister Nitish Mishra told as graft becomes a nationwide concern, particularly with the anti-corruption crusade by Anna Hazare in New Delhi. Corrupt Officials seeking bribes from the poorest of the poor for the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) will be targeted first. The scheme aims to provide housing for the poor. “Use of latest technology like YouTube is probably the first of its kind in the country to fight corruption in government welfare schemes, particularly the IAY in Bihar,” said A. Santosh Matthew, rural development department principal secretary. For the first time in Bihar, nearly one million people living below poverty line will be given the first instalment of money under IAY for construction of houses Saturday at statewide camps organised by the government in all 534 blocks. The state government has directed all district officials to make arrangements to record video of complaints of all beneficiaries of IAY at the camps. “We have asked officials to set up three counters in every camp, where beneficiaries will lodge written complaints against officials who may have demanded bribes and delayed work,” Mishra told PTI “Everything will be recorded and soon uploaded on YouTube to expose corrupt officials and end the involvement of middlemen,” he added. The minister said any complaints from beneficiaries would be verified and then uploaded on the video-sharing website. “It will be a big embarrassment and bad publicity for the officials.” The move follows increasing complaints by villagers about officials asking for bribes to get things done with respect to the IAY in the state. Even top government officials have admitted that the poorest of the poor have to pay bribes to officials to get the benefit of this housing scheme. Those who have no money to pay bribes don’t get the benefit. Hundreds of angry villagers blocked a road in Aurangabad district to protest corruption in the IAY scheme that forced a poor Mahadalit to suicide after setting afire his family early this week. Rambachan Rajvansi, a Mahadalit in his early 30s, poured kerosene and set his wife and three children on fire before killing himself Monday in Mujhar village of Aurangabad, about 100 km from here. According to police, the family was upset after money allotted to them under the IAY was fraudulently taken away by a middleman. The scheme aims to provide housing for the rural poor.
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