Greater public involvement will be crucial to overcome existingweaknesses in the anti-corruption fight, Government General InspectorHuynh Phong Tranh has said.

While agreeing that thereare positive results of efforts to prevent and curb corruption, he saidthey are far from meeting expectations, citing the complicated situationin the fields of land and mineral management, investment, construction,and finance and banking which is causing concern in society.

The chief inspector called on the Vietnam Father Front, massorganizations, mass media and people to play a more active role insupervising public servants to prevent and timely detect corruptiveacts.

He also urged relevant agencies to enhance their coordination and information exchange in the fight.

The inspection sector discovered 45 corruption cases involving 99suspects last year, reclaiming more than 299 billion VND (14.2 millionUSD). Of these, 26 cases and 39 suspects were transferred toinvestigation agencies, and several serious cases were subsequently puton trial.

At the same time, the sector paid moreattention to preventive measures through enhancing the transparency andeffectiveness of inspections as well as administrative reforms.

The measures’ result can be seen in the Provincial Governance andPublic Administration Performance Index (PAPI) announced last year bythe United Nations Development Programme. The index, which was based on asurvey of 14,000 people across the country, showed a remarkableimprovement of 2.54 percent in the rating of transparency and a 2.29percent increase in terms of public service quality.-VNA