The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) plans to start work on its automation project in January next, aiming to bring transparency and accountability in its works, reports UNB.
"The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has already decided to provide financial support to the Commission. The ADB's official procedure to provide the fund will complete by this year and we'll hopefully be able to start the automation work in January next," ACC commissioner Dr Nasiruddin Ahmed told the news agency.
He said the ADB has assured the Commission of providing half a million US dollar as grant to implement the ACC's automation project.
"But we've requested the ADB to provide more money and its officials assured that they'll put forward the proposal," the ACC commissioner said adding that the automation work will be completed within two years.
On October 21, 2014, the Commission decided to introduce automation system so that its capacity could be strengthened by establishing a 'digitalised system' which will be paperless.
Automation is a condition of being automatically controlled or operated. At present, the ACC conducts probes into the graft allegations manually. But, the ACC officials can work in a system without use of paper after instalment of the automation.
Dr Nasiruddin said automation is very important for the ACC as it is quite impossible to ensure transparency and accountability in the anti-graft body without introducing automation.
He said the ACC conducts probes within a timeframe and once the automation is introduced, it will be easier to know about the statues of the inquiries and investigations the ACC carries out.
The Commissioner said its district-level offices will be connected with the automation system to monitor their regular activities. "With the automation in place, there'll be a link with database which will help officials concerned to know about the status of ACC's cases pending with courts.
"We'll be able to monitor our activities effectively, bringing transparency in the Commission's activities," Nasiruddin said.
To improve the efficiency of the ACC officials, he said the ADB will provide technical support to the Commission to make sure the optimum utilisation of automation system.
