[HumJanenge] Maha to Reward Whistleblowers to Curb Corruption

Maha to Reward Whistleblowers to Curb Corruption                                                                                                                                              Economic Times, 3.6.2011. THANE Maharashtra Government has decided to reward those who provide information about corrupt Government employees, the home department has said in reply to an RTI query. The department, in reply to an RTI query by senior BJP leader Om Prakash Sharma has stated that the Government has decided to make use of informers to weed out corruption and to locate the wealth amassed by the Government employees. The informers, who give specific information about employees who have amassed wealth beyond their known sources of income, will be rewarded. The informers would be provided protection and their names would be kept secret. The informers will be paid . 10,000 by way of reward for information on corruption up to . 25 lakh while they will be paid . 25,000 for unearthing corruption of between . 25 lakh and . 50 lakh. As per the slabs worked out by the department, . 50,000 to be paid for detecting corruption of between . 50 lakh and . 1 crore and . 1 lakh for corruption of between . 1 crore and . 5 crore .