MP CM concerned over top babus' corrupt activities

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed displeasure over 'corrupt activities' by some of the IAS and IPS officers in the state. Chouhan hurriedly called the meeting of associations of IAS and IPS officers in the State Secretariat yesterday after returning from the Chief Ministers' conference in New Delhi.


He reportedly conveyed his displeasure on the recent Income Tax officers raids on the house of IAS couple – Arvind Joshi and Tinu Joshi, official sources said today. From the IAS officers association, the meeting was attended by its president Sandeep Khanna and office-bearers - Shailendra Singh, Manish-Dipali Rastogi, R Parshuram and Vivek Agrawal among others, the sources said.

The IPS officers association was represented by its president Nandan Dubey, Sanjeev Shami, A K Soni and Vijay Yadav, they said.

The Chief Minister strictly told them that they should advise their members not to indulge in corrupt practices as such actions not only ashamed them but also put the state government in an awkward position, the sources said.

Chouhan also told them that during his recent visit to Delhi everybody was asking him about the IT raids on the IAS officers in the state.

Ack.: Thanking Zee news for its inputs.

Ofcourse people are going to ask about the raids because everyone is worried about it, everyone is protecting oneself from being raided (except poor - they fear being razed). Corruption exists at every levels in every system. But it is good to know that atleast steps are 'planned' (well there is big difference between 'plan' and 'execute'). The CM should do this at a regular basis to atleast minimise corruption.
Hopefully other state CM's also plan such a move.

Yet, as we would like to maintain (as we believe), let's stop giving so they stop taking/asking.