Govt forms committee to ensure transparent administration

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 14:38 [IST]

Chennai, Mar 8 (UNI) The Tamil Nadu Government has constituted a committee to give necessary recommendations to remove red tapism and ensure transparent and corruption-free administration.

The ten-member Administrative Reforms Committee would be headed by former Madras High Court Judge A K Rajan, an official release said here today.

The members included retired IAS officer V Viswanathan, retired IPS officer S Kumarasamy and Alandur Municipality Chairman R S Bharathi.

Law Department Tamil-wing Director V Chandran will be the member-secretary of the Committee.

Chief Minister M Karunanidhi had constituted the committee in keeping with his party's promise in election manifesto to provide a corruption-free administration, the release said.

UNI

Topics: ADMINISTRATION-TN-REFORMS COMMITTEE

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