Streamlined and transparent administrative procedures are important in the fight against corruption, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said on July 8 at the Central Anti-Corruption Steering Committee’s meeting to review its activities in the first half and set tasks and orientations for the rest of the year.
In addition to anti-corruption achievements, the Prime Minister underlined such shortcomings as ineffective land and asset management, tardiness in detecting corruption cases and limitations in punishing heads of corrupt agencies.
He said inspection, auditing, supervision, investigation, prosecution and related activities should be reinforced while concerned agencies must strengthen their coordination in detecting and handling cases of corruption.
Authorities were urged to examine and supervise land management and use, investment and construction projects, natural resource management, settlement of complaints and denunciations, and the use of the Government’s stimulus package.
Information on corruption cases must be accurate and timely to avoid raising different public opinions, the Government leader said.
* In another move to fight corruption, the Government Inspectorate has submitted to the Prime Minister the project on educating the Anti-Corruption Law in agencies and at schools.
The project aims to devise specific plans and measures to implement the national strategy against corruption up to 2020.
The Central Anti-Corruption Steering Committee will collaborate with the Government Inspectorate in monitoring the Law implementation in ministries and localities, which will continue to boost awareness raising for their cadres and civil servants, according to State Inspector General Tran Van Truyen.
It is still necessary to raise cadres’ and civil servants’ awareness for their better anti-corruption knowledge though the total number of corruption cases in the first half of the year was smaller than that in the same period last year, he said.-