Transfer staff who have completed over 5 years in vigilance at same place : CVC

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The CVC has asked all central government departments to transfer the staff who have completed more than five years in vigilance units at same place, asserting that undue long stay of an official in a sensitive post at one place has the potential of developing vested interests, apart from giving rise to unnecessary complaints/ allegations etc. The order have been issued to secretaries of all central government departments and chief executives of public sector banks among others.

In order to ensure transparency, objectivity, and uniformity in approach, the Commission has decided that the tenure of personnel in vigilance unit at one place including PS/PA and lower level functionaries, should be limited to three years only. And such personnel who have completed three years in vigilance units can be given another tenure of three years in vigilance unit at a different place of posting.

In case a personnel has served at one place in vigilance unit for more than three years, his tenure at the next place (if posted in vigilance unit) may be curtailed to ensure that the combined tenure at two places is limited to six years only.

After transfer from vigilance unit, a compulsory cooling off period of three years should be observed before a person can be considered again for posting in vigilance unit of the organisation concerned.

The first phase of transfer/posting of minimum of 10% of the personnel may be completed by May 31, 2021. Also, the exercise of transferring all the personnel who have worked for more than 3 years at one place is completed by June 30, 2022, the CVC order said.