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Chief Guest P. Dayanand addressing the programm saying that transparency is very important in the public sector, whether it is a PSU or the state government. Such events definitely promote vigilance and transparent work culture. He said that both the public sector undertakings and the state government complement each other and mutual cooperation and coordination between the two is very important for the development of the region-Photo Credit-CG/PR
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*Launch of three-month preventive vigilance campaign in SECL by the hands of P Dayanand, Secretary to Chief Minister
*CMD SECL Harish Duhan called for full compliance of the guidelines of Central Vigilance Commission
Raipur : A three-month preventive vigilance campaign was launched at SECL headquarters Bilaspur as per the instructions of Central Vigilance Commission, New Delhi. Secretary to Chief Minister P. Dayanand was present as the chief guest on this occasion.
The program was presided over by SECL CMD Harish Duhan. On this occasion, Sunil Jain, Commissioner, Bilaspur Division; SECL Director (Technical – Operations cum Planning / Project) N. Franklin Jaikumar; Director (Human Resources) Biranchi Das and Chief Vigilance Officer Himanshu Jain were present.
The program started with lighting of lamps. After this, the guests garlanded the portrait of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and paid their respects to him. After that, the Coal India corporate song was played .
CMD -SECL Harish Duhan who presided over the programm administrating an oath of integrity to all the attendeces -Photo Credit-CG/PR
Later on CMD SECL Harish Duhan administered the oath of integrity to all the attendees.
Chief Guest P. Dayanand said that transparency is very important in the public sector, whether it is a PSU or the state government. Such events definitely promote vigilance and transparent work culture. He said that both the public sector undertakings and the state government complement each other and mutual cooperation and coordination between the two is very important for the development of the region.
SECL CMD Harish Duhan, who was presiding over the program, said that I want to appeal to every member of Team SECL that whatever work we do, we should do it with full honesty and integrity by staying within the ambit of rules and policies.
Expressing gratitude towards the state government, he said that SECL continuously receives guidance and support from the state government to improve its functioning. As a result, this year we have been able to speed up the process of land acquisition in mega projects. During this, he also discussed topics related to the desired cooperation from the state government in land acquisition and other areas.
Chief Vigilance Officer Himanshu Jain informed that the theme of this year’s campaign has been set by the Central Vigilance Commission as “Vigilance: Our shared responsibility”.
There are five major points of this campaign – settlement of pending complaints, settlement of pending cases, conducting capacity building programs for officers and employees, effective management of assets and making the functioning more modern and transparent by promoting digital initiatives.
Many efforts have been made by the Vigilance Department to improve the functioning in SECL. Such as – development of a transparent system with third party testing, CCTV monitoring and real time supervision to improve the quality of coal. SOP based bill processing, FIFO clearance and SAP based tracking have been implemented in the procurement processes. Machines have been verified and digitally tagged to strengthen asset management.
Operations and monitoring have been made more effective and transparent through digital platforms like Jatayu Dashboard, Digicol and Integrated Command and Control Center.
All the department heads, officers and employees of the headquarters including General Manager (Vigilance) Nageshwar Rao were present in the program.
