| Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions |
| Department of Personnel & Training |
| Administrative Vigilance Division |
| Chief Vigilance Officers(Central P.S.Us) |
GUIDELINES FOR APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF VIGILANCE OFFICER (CVO):-
(i) As far as practicable, a Chief Vigilance
Officer should not belong to the organisation to which he is appointed and
should be from outside.
(ii) Once an officer has
worked as a Chief Vigilance Officer in a particular organisation, he should not
go back as CVO to the same Organisation again. (iii) The cadre controlling
authorities of the various organised services as well as Public Sector
Undertakings, who would like to offer the services of the officers, would be
asked from time to time to offer the names of suitable candidates with proven
integrity for the posts of CVOs likely to fall vacant.
(iv) The officers deputed as CVOs to Public
Sector Undertakings may draw pay as per the scale prescribed for the posts or
their grade pay as is permissible under the rules.
(v) The CVOs would be eligible for an initial
deputation tenure of three years in PSUs which is extendable upto a further
period of two years in the same PSU (total 5 years) with the prior clearance of
the CVC or upto a further period of three years on transfer to another PSU on
completion of initial tenure of three years in the previous PSU.
(vi) The posts of Chief Vigilance Officers
(CVOs) in the Central Public Sector Undertakings are treated as Central Staffing
Scheme posts as those filled as per the procedure followed under the Central
Staffing Scheme for posts in the Central Government. However, in order to
attract officers for manning the posts of CVOs in various Public Sector
Undertakings certain special dispensations which are applicable to non-Central
Staffing Scheme posts have been made. For instance, if a request is received
from an officer occupying a post under the Central Staffing Scheme on
deputation, duly recommended by the Ministry/Department in which he is posted,
with the approval of the Minister-in-Charge, for being considered for
appointment as CVO, at least one year before the expiry of his tenure on the
Central Staffing Scheme Post, such an officer, if selected for appointment as
CVO may be allowed a tenure of 3 years as CVO subject to a maximum of 7 years'
combined tenure on the Central Staffing Scheme post and the post of CVO.
(vii) Prior approval of the Central Vigilance
Commission would be obtained before the names are offered to the respective
Ministries/ Departments for the posts of CVOs in Public Sector Undertakings
under their charge.
(viii) A panel of officers cleared by
the Central Vigilance Commission will be suggested to the administrative
Ministry/Department concerned with the approval of the Minister of State in the
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Personnel
& Training. The administrative Ministry is required to select an officer out
of the panel with the approval of its Minister-in-charge and communicate the
same to the Department of Personnel and Training for obtaining the approval of
the Competent Authority.