GOVERNMENTOF ANDHRA PRADESH
                                           ABSTRACT

APVC – Jurisdiction and powers –Decisions of the State Investment Promotion Board outside the purview of enquiry by APVC– Amendment to the Scheme of Scheme of Vigilance Commission – Orders –Issued.
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GENERAL ADMINISTRATION (SC.E)DEPARTMENT

G.O.Ms.No.431                                                         Date:21-10-1998.

Read:

G.O.Ms.No. 421, G.A. (SC.D) Dept., dt.3-8-1993.

ORDER:-

In the G.O. read above, the Scheme definingthe jurisdiction, powers etc., of the A.P. Vigilance Commission has been issued.

1. To expedite decision making in the State Government, particularly where large financial commitments are involved and to bring about attitudinal change among the concerned in the Government so as to look upon industrialists as partners in progress of the State and to render all possible help to the entreprenours investing in the State so that projects in industry and infrastructure sector are executed at a faster pace and to take sound decisions which are in the economic interest of the State and in order to ensure that the decisions taken by the State Investment Promotion Board in the economic interest of the State are not dragged into controversies and subsequent enquiries, it has been decided to exclude such decisions of the State Investment Promotion Board from the purview of enquiry by the A.P.Vigilance Commission.
2. Accordingly, the Government, after careful consideration of the matter, issue the following amendment to the Scheme fo teh vigilance Commission issued in the G.O. read above:-

AMENDMENT

1. After clause (xv) in para 6 – Jurisdiction and powers of the Commission, in the Appendix to the G.O.Ms.No.421, G.A. (SC.D) Department, dt. 3-8-1993, the follwoing clause shallbe inserted:

(xvi) The Commission shall not cause enquiryinto the decisions taken by the State Investment Promotion Board.

(b) The existing clause (xvi) under para 6 ofthe Appendix to G.O.Ms.No.421, G.A. (Sc.D) Department, dt.3-8-1993 shall be renumbered asclause (xvii).

(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OFANDHRA PRADESH)

M.V.S.PRASAD.

SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT (POLL.)

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