Ethical framework for legislators

 Committee on Ethics in LS and RS

 Disclosure of interest
 Register of interests
 Filing assets and liabilities statement
 Enforcement of ethical norms

Ethical framework for civil servants

 Draft Public Service Bill
 Public Service Code

Judicial Values
 1997: SC adopted the ‘Restatement of Values of Judicial Life’
 Judicial independence and accountability should go together
 Judiciary appointing itself?
 Method of removal of judges?
 Judges Accountability Bill

Legal framework for fighting corruption

 Indian Penal Code, section 161 to 165
 Prevention of Corruption Act 1947
 Amendments made to several acts in 1964
 Prevention of Corruption Act 1988
 Need for whistleblowers act
o Watergate
o Sarbanes Oxley Act passed after the Enron scandal provides sweeping protection to
whistleblowers
 Benami Transactions Act
 Need for a law on Serious Economic Offences
 Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946
o Single point directive should be amended to provide a time limit of 30 days for
processing this permission

Risk Management in Government for ethical purposes

The positions in the government could be classified as

 High risk
 Low risk
 Medium risk

This ranking is based on the risk of the position to be susceptible to corruption.

Similarly government personnel could be classified as

 High risk personnel
 Medium risk personnel
 Low risk personnel
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