HAPPENED ON DEC 18.
Department of personnel and training (DoPT) under the prime minister turned down the select committee's recommendation that an official facing an inquiry from the Lokpal not be given an opportunity to be heard at the stage of preliminary enquiry (i.e before a case is lodged) .For this purpose government changed Clause 20(3) of the version of Lokpal bill (suggested by Rajya Rabha selected parliamentary panel )
The DoPT also rejected the suggestion that officers on a particular probe not be transferred without Lokpal's consent when the investigation was on. The government rejected this proposal, and brought in an amendment saying transferring any official would remain the exclusive right of the government. The government insisted that the Lokpal must seek the comments of the public servant against whom it may be conducting an enquiry .
For this purpose government also changed Clause 20(2) of the bill
|this resistance offered by govt wil further delay the passage of lokpal which is stuck in Rajya Sabha for almost a year( and whose implementation has been demanded by citizens about 2 years ago)|
The government has mostly agreed to other recommendations of the select committee which has delinked the creation of Lokayuktas in states and exempting the PM from the ambit of Lokpal on matters of security, atomic energy and international relations.
Source:http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-12-18/india/35889843_1_lokpal-bill-lokayuktas-rajya-sabha
Department of personnel and training (DoPT) under the prime minister turned down the select committee's recommendation that an official facing an inquiry from the Lokpal not be given an opportunity to be heard at the stage of preliminary enquiry (i.e before a case is lodged) .For this purpose government changed Clause 20(3) of the version of Lokpal bill (suggested by Rajya Rabha selected parliamentary panel )
The DoPT also rejected the suggestion that officers on a particular probe not be transferred without Lokpal's consent when the investigation was on. The government rejected this proposal, and brought in an amendment saying transferring any official would remain the exclusive right of the government. The government insisted that the Lokpal must seek the comments of the public servant against whom it may be conducting an enquiry .
For this purpose government also changed Clause 20(2) of the bill
|this resistance offered by govt wil further delay the passage of lokpal which is stuck in Rajya Sabha for almost a year( and whose implementation has been demanded by citizens about 2 years ago)|
The government has mostly agreed to other recommendations of the select committee which has delinked the creation of Lokayuktas in states and exempting the PM from the ambit of Lokpal on matters of security, atomic energy and international relations.
Source:http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-12-18/india/35889843_1_lokpal-bill-lokayuktas-rajya-sabha
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