Depending mainly on complaints or information received with regard to cases of corruption would amount to discrimination against some of the corrupt and to relying on a random approach.
It is widely known that there may be no walk of life in which there is no Corruption, including Education, Healthcare, Politics, Investments and expenditure involving large value, collection of Government Revenue etc.
My suggestions are as follows:
(1)Select, first, Authorities in lines of activity and individual cases therein involving the highest value--e.g., Irrigation Projects, Income Tax, Criminal cases involving severe crimes, Vote buying by bribing the electorate in cash, grant of medical colleges, medical seats, Government Hospitals, grant of licenses for big projects etc.
(2) Assign one day to a line of activity, that too by rotation so that the suspects cannot come to know in advance of the day when they will be targeted and guard themselves
(3) First examine Records of properties and vehicles to pick on likely cases in which illicitly acquired money would have been invested
(4) Next, examine the sources of information covering lavish expenditure, e.g., on celebration like those on marriages, birthdays, foreign jaunts, medical treatment in expensive hospitals, vendors of drinks, vendors of jewellery; pick on suspects of the corrupt from such records
(4+1) Armed with data from sources such as those at (3) and (4) above, confront and interrogate the suspects or conduct a raid
(6) Make legal provisions for conferring necessary powers on ACBs for performing the functions enumerated above
(7) Make provisions for enabling the ACBs to carry out the above-said functions by providing them with enough of staff or volunteers (e.g., from able, healthy and willing retirees), and by providing ACBs with enough financial resources, vehicles and even arms (to protect themselves against the violent and roguish types amongst the suspected corrupt.
(8) Make legal provisions for targeting a functionary in any capacity, however high he or she may be, whether in Central or State or Local Government or Organizations or Bodies
(9) Make legal provisions for Courts to function with speed and not in the usual dilatory manner.
(10) Create machinery and infrastructure for keeping ACBs on watch with reference to their accountability on excesses and inadequacies. more