Vigilance Awareness Week
The Central Vigilance Commission on 31st October 2000 introduced the practice of observing the week starting from the birthday of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as the Vigilance Awareness Week. This was an effort at making the employees of the government of India organisations aware of the dangers and harm caused by corruption, which is anti poor, anti development and anti national.
31st October was chosen as the date as it is the birthday of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of the great leaders of our country, who is an outstanding icon and role model for patriotism, political integrity, visionary but highly pragmatic leadership and value based politics. The birthday of Sardar Patel was deliberately chosen because during the freedom struggle, Sardar Patel was the leader who did all the demanding hard work not visible in the public eye of raising resources and organising the political movement. This task called for, absolute integrity, an excellent capacity for management and inspiring leadership.
VIGILENCE AWARNESS WEEK OBSERVED BY IIHT – GUWAHATI DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2022-2023
The programme, Vigilance Awareness in IIHT, Guwahati started with the invocation. The theme of this year is for “Corruption free India for a Developed Nation (Bhrastasar mukt Bharat – Bikashit Bharat)”. Then, the introductory speech and address was delivered by the Head of Office of IIHT, Guwahati. In the speech she had explained what are Vigilance and its need in the present scenario. Then in her address, she he brought out the reason for wiping out corruption from the country for the further development and had stressed the importance of Vigilance Awareness among the peoples, especially for the students. Then, AICTE video on Vigilance Awareness was shown to the students. After that all the staff and officers take the Integrity pledge. Then the Vote of thanks was delivered by the Junior Lecturer. Finally, the programme ended with National Anthem.