Venkatraman to head Lokayukta search panel
Retired High Court Judge Venkatraman was appointed Chairman of three-member Search Committee of Lokayukta on Friday.
By : migrator
Update: 2018-12-29 02:00 GMT
Chennai
The appointment was made through a Government Order (GO), issued by the state in which two other members of the Search Committee were also appointed. R Krishnamoorthy, former Advocate General of Tamil Nadu and A Pari, retired IPS officer, were the two members of the Search Committee.
Earlier in the day, the Selection Committee headed by Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami met and discussed the appointment of Chairman and members of Search Committee.
Speaker P Dhanapal, who is a member of the Selection Committee, was present in the meeting but Leader of Opposition MK Stalin skipped the meeting as announced by him on Thursday.
In the Search Committee meeting, S Swarna, Secretary, Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, read the letter written by Stalin refusing to participate in the Selection Committee meeting and it was recorded in the minute book.
The Search Committee is given the mandate of twomonths to recommend the name of Chairman and three members of Lokayukta back to the Selection Committee and after the careful consideration of the Selection Committee the names of Chairman and the members of Lokayuktawould be sent to the Governor,who will pass the final appointment order.
The Search Committee, while recommending the name of Chairman of Lokayukta, has to find a person, who is a serving or a retired Judge or a person with 25 years of experience in Public Administration, Vigilance and anti-corruption policies. As far as members are considered they are split into Judicial and non-judicial members and in case of judicial members, they ought to have 25 years of experience in the field of Law and similarly for non-judicial members, they too should have 25 years of experience in public administration, vigilance and anti-corruption.
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