TOI : 25% of FCI staff corrupt : Sept 11, 2007

25% of FCI staff corrupt

New Delhi: Over a quarter of junior-level Food Corporation of India (FCI)
officials were found guilty of corruption in the last three years,
Parliament was informed on Monday.

    Besides the category III and II staff, 15.41% of senior officials were
also found guilty of corruption and punished internally. Over the three-year
period, FCI took action against 7,890 officials for corruption.

    A number of corruption cases are also pending with the department of
personnel and training against IAS officials for the period they served in
the FCI. These revelations were made by Sharad Pawar, minister for consumer
affairs, food and public distribution, in his reply to a parliamentary
standing committee's report.

    The committee had said it was "deeply concerned to note the constant
rise in corruption cases despite various remedial measures taken in this
regard". The committee added that in many cases, it felt that junior-level
officials were caught when the seniors too should have been indicted. TNN
Publication:Times of India Mumbai; Date:Sep 11, 2007; Section:Times Nation;
Page Number:12

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