Eliminating Crruption - 48 Months report card

Eliminating Crruption - 48 Months report card

Infographics shared by mygov as completion of 48 Months of Government.

Govt. of India's information sharing portal mygov share the various facts about Development in the previous 48 months. Here, we are sharing the infographics related to Eliminating Crruption article.

Greater Formalization for a Healthier Economy and Securing People's Rights:

• Number of ITRs filed during FY 2017-18 is 6.84 Cr. a jump of 80.5% compared to FY 2013-14.
• More than 1 Crore taxpayers registered with GST. 35 lakh new taxpayers.
• 50 lakh new bank accounts opened for cashless, transparent transfer of wages,benefiting workers.
• More than 1.01 crore additional workers enrolled with EPFO and more than 1.3 crore workers registered with ESIC post-demonetization.

Cronyism Out, Cleanliness In:

• Clean auctions of coal blocks and telecom spectrum set a new benchmark.
• Online application made mandatory for all clearances.
• No more interviews for non-gazetted posts, meritorious candidates win.
• Time taken for environmental approvals brought down to 180 days from 600 days.

Use of Technology to Boost Transparency:

• Over Rs.3,65,996 crore directly transferred into the bank account of beneficiaries for 431 schemes in last 4 years.
• Aadhaar given legislative framework.
• More than 1crore Income Tax Payees linked their Aadhaar with PAN.
• GEM online platform for government Procurement form vendors to reduce corruption and increase transparency.

 

Enabling Legislations & Amendments to curb Corruption:

• Benami Property Act blocking a major avenue for generation and holding of black money in various forms.
• Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill introduced to empower law enforcement agencies to confiscate the assets of economic absconders.
• This would also help the banks and other financial institutions to achieve higher recovery from fugitive economic offenders.

Enabling Legislations & Amendments to curb Corruption:

• Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement with Mauritius, Cyprus, Singapore.
• Agreement on real time information sharing with Switzerland.
• Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act 2015 enacted.
• PMLA amended to allow confiscation of property equivalent in value of black money stashed abroad.

Stringent Action against Corruption & Black Money: 

• Special Investigation Team set up at the First Cabinet Meeting after the NDA Government assumed office.
• Demonetisation led to India's highest ever unearthing of suspicious transactions and eeposits.
• Current proportion of High Denomination notes in our economy is much less than what it would have been without Demonetisation.
• Action taken against around 3 lakh shell companies.

Source: Mygov
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