NACC fails to hit target on integrity

The National Anti-Corruption Fee (NACC) has announced a 20% rise in the number of state organizations meeting its minimal integrity and transparency standards.

The NACC’s annual transparency assessment also noted that an amount of agencies under the Internal, Public Health and Industry ministries still got room for improvement.

Released yesterday, results of this particular year’s Integrity and Transparency Assessment (ITA) showed a total of 5, 855 from all 8, 303 state organisations, or 70%, passed the particular assessment, which signifies a 20% enhance from last year, stated NACC chairman Pol Gen Watcharapol Prasarnrajkit.

“Despite the significant raise, the overall result does not actually meet the NACC’s target of at least 80% of condition agencies scoring a minimum of 85% in the ITA’s benchmark.

“All parties are, therefore , encouraged to participate hands in more raising the levels of the integrity and transparency until the target is definitely met, ” this individual said.

Of all 10 indicators, corruption prevention had been found to be the minimum achievable, especially concerning high-level commitment to adopting anti-graft measures in organisational work plans, he mentioned.

Low-scoring agencies were mainly tambon administration organisations, municipality offices, higher education institutions and money, while the Interior, General public Health and Industry Ministries helmed the fewest organisations to pass the ITA.

Analysed by province, the administrations in Ratchaburi, Ubon Ratchathani and Chaiyaphum performed poorly, he stated.

One of the highest-scoring units had been those under the judicial and parliamentary umbrellas, he said.

The Division of Provincial Administration earned the highest overall score among sections while the Government Casing Bank topped the state enterprise category, he or she said.

Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt echoed Mister Wissanu’s call, saying there will be frequent improvement reports posted on-line so that the public may monitor the points he makes within materialising his selection promises.