FROM THE EDITOR

 HAPPY DEEPAVALI

           May the ‘Festival of Lights’ bring in Prosperity and Happiness to all our readers and their families.

             We are happy to report that this Journal has completed one year of publication and 4 issues have come out in the last twelve months. We are shortly placing all these 4 issues on our Website www.aapssindia.org for free downloading. We were enthused and sustained in our task of bringing out this journal by the encouragement, advice and kind words received from our readers. While expressing our gratitude to our readers, we rededicate ourselves to spread the message of vigilance. We appeal to our readers to enrich this journal with their articles, case studies and other features. We believe that we can build-up professional expertise only by sharing our experiences with others.  

There was a suggestion that each issue should be devoted to one area of vigilance. Accepting this, we have given prominence to Bank Sector in this issue. We are grateful to Shri P.C.Srivastava, CVO, Union Bank of India for contributing an interesting case study. We propose to devote our next issue to ‘Probity in Financial Institutions’. We appeal to our readers to send in their articles, case studies etc. on this subject by December 15, 2001. 

As our readers are aware, the Publisher Association, being a Public Service Society, is not having adequate financial resources to publish this journal. We are incurring heavy losses. We appeal to our readers to help in overcoming our financial difficulties by taking out multiple subscriptions and giving advertisements. We feel that if every one of our existing subscribers can enroll an additional subscriber, our financial problems will be mitigated to a great extent.

Vigilance Professionals will be observing ‘Vigilance Awareness Week’ from October 31, 2001 in compliance with the directives of the CVC. We hope that the material published in our journal will be of use to them in preparing ‘handouts’ and ‘briefs’.

WE INVITE

O        ARTICLES: on Vigilance Concepts: Operations; Techniques and Skills.

O        CASE STUDIES: Highlighting successful application of principles of Vigilance and of Cases that failed due to failure to apply them; and interesting Disciplinary cases.

O        WE CAN ALSO LAUGH: Humorous episodes in Vigilance work.

O        READERS ASK: Please send your questions for replies from vigilance experts.

Suitable honorarium would be paid to the Articles, Case Studies and Humorous anecdotes accepted for Publication.