Orissa's vigilance department has proposed adding a preventive vigilance and a community relations wings to tackle corruption more effectively a la Hong Kong.
"We have made a proposal to the state government to adopt the Hong Kong anti-corruption model because it has produced good results and been adopted in many South Asian countries," said state vigilance chief Gopal Nanda.
"We do have an enforcement wing but don't have a full fledged preventive and public education wing like Hong Kong," Nanda told IANS.
The state government, which is said to be considering the proposal, is setting up internal vigilance wings in "corruption prone" departments like those dealing with forests and roads, officials said.
The Orissa vigilance department was created way back in 1944 as an anti-corruption enforcement organisation under the supply and transport department. It was reorganised in August 1957.
--Indo-Asian News Service