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Nation Vigilance Awareness Week

Vigilance Awareness Week - PM Modi's address

A DECISIVE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION,

NO NEED TO BE DEFENSIVE

After eight years of hard work, the time
has come for a decisive fight against the
corruption that is destroying the country
like a termite. It is our intention to create a
situation in which those who have looted the
country must return them. At the Vigilance

Awareness Week programme on November
3, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated
the call made on the 75th Independence Day
from the ramparts of the Red Fort, saying,
"For a developed India, we have to develop an
administrative ecosystem with zero tolerance
on corruption. Organisations that take action

against corruption need not be defensive."

orruption is like a termite for any country or
society. Those in power before 2014 used to No matter how powerful corrupt
Csay, "When one rupee is sanctioned by the
centre, then the villages receive only 15 paise of it. people are, they should not be saved
"But the present leadership of the country is not only under any circumstances; it is the
calling for a decisive fight against corruption but has responsibility of organisations like
also made arrangements for the people to receive the CVC. It is also necessary to
100 paise out of 100 directly in the account of the
poor." By amending the Prevention of Corruption create such an environment that no
Act, of 1988, after 30 years, Prime Minister Narendra corrupt person should get political or
Modi-led government added a number of new social support; every corrupt person
provisions that made bribe-taking as well as bribe- should be put in jail.
giving an offence, provisions were made to prevent
corruption in corporate institutions. At the same time, -Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
the Lokpal was constituted with the appointment

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