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India's G-20 Presidency Nation
Conference on Women's Empowerment said the
members reaffirmed their commitment to greater
cooperation in advancing a women-led development
agenda to eliminate gender-based discrimination,
reduce gender gaps in all areas of development, Under India's presidency, the G-20
including education, entrepreneurship, leadership grouping has been successful in
and climate-related issues. The G20 Ministerial
Conference on Women's Empowerment released a building consensus on law enforcement
12-point presidential document to achieve the goal cooperation, information sharing and
of gender equality and women's empowerment. asset recovery. I am sure that G-20
The link is available at https://www.g20.org/
content/dam/gtwenty/gtwenty_new/document/ members will take concrete steps to
G20_Chair's Statement_Women's_Ministerial.pdf. implement these principles to enhance
the effectiveness of the extradition
Anti-Corruption Ministerial Group Agrees on mechanism and facilitate better tracking
Law Enforcement, Information Sharing, and
of cross-border financial flows, thereby
Asset Recovery
The impact of corruption is felt most by the poor reining in fugitive economic offenders.
and disadvantaged. It reduces people's quality
of life by affecting resource use, markets, and - Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister
service delivery. That is why India has a zero- of State for Personnel and
tolerance policy against corruption. Technology Administrative Reforms
and e-governance are being used to create a
transparent and accountable ecosystem. Direct
benefit transfers of $360 billion to bank accounts cooperation through information sharing;
have saved about $33 billion for the exchequer. strengthening corruption-related asset recovery
The Government Procurement e-Marketplace has mechanisms and promoting the integrity and
increased transparency, enacted the Economic effectiveness of public bodies and authorities
Offenders Act, and recovered assets worth $8 responsible for preventing and combating
billion from economic offenders and fugitives. corruption - PM Modi expressed happiness at an
More than $12 billion in assets have been seized agreement on informal cooperation among law
under the money laundering law. enforcement agencies. The Prime Minister has
The figures were presented by Prime Minister called for change through enhanced international
Narendra Modi during the third meeting of the cooperation and implementation of strong
G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group, chaired by measures that tackle the root causes of corruption.
India, and the Anti-Corruption Ministerial Meeting The Anti-Corruption Ministerial Meeting
held in Kolkata between August 9 and August was chaired by the Minister of Personnel and
11. It is clear from the data that the present Administrative Reforms, Dr. Jitendra Singh.
government is not only working in the country After the Anti-Corruption Ministerial Meeting
on zero tolerance against corruption, but Prime in Kolkata, Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh,
Minister Narendra Modi has also raised the issue along with UK Secretary of State for Security
of fugitive economic offenders in his first G-20 Tom Tugendhat, said India's G-20 Presidency
summit of 2014 and then in the G-20 summit of will provide an impetus to the ongoing politics
2018. A nine-point agenda was presented in 2018 of ensuring international cooperation and
for action against them and recovery of assets, accountability in the fight against corruption. The
in which decisive steps are being taken. G-20 Anti-Corruption Working Group led by India
Welcoming the action-oriented high-level has achieved significant milestones, including the
principles on priority areas - law enforcement adoption of three sets of High Level Principles.
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