By IANS,
Patna: The Bihar government will bring the Lokayukta bill in the winter session of the state assembly, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Monday.
?The state government will bring the Bihar Lokayukta Bill in the winter session of the state assembly this year and would bring the chief minister under the Lokayukta,” he said at a function here.
Nitish Kumar also hinted that the former Karnataka Lokayukta, Justice (retd) Santosh Hegde will prepare the new Bihar Lokayukta Bill.
He reiterated that the Bihar government led by him had already initiated several measures to fight against corruption. “The Right to Service Act was enforced last month to check corruption and to provide relief to people in the state,” he said.
He claimed that Bihar has emerged as a model state in the country after his government’s bid for transparency was being emulated by other states and the country and cited the example of mandatory annual declaration of assets by ministers and government employees.