The Chairperson of the Good Governance Committee (GGC), Member from Khatoed-Laya constituency, Hon’ble Tenzin, presented the Committee's review report on the Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) Annual Report 2022-2023 to the House today.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) submitted its 16th Annual Report to the Parliament, as per Article 27 (4) of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan, highlighting the Commission's achievements, challenges and its recommendations.

Presenting the review report, the Chairperson submitted five recommendations to the House - two recommendations as submitted by the ACC and three other recommendations by the Good Governance Committee. 

The ACC’s recommendations were: 

1. To enhance parliamentary oversight to scrutinize issues for delays in resolving corruption cases while also providing opportunities to address inherent capacity and operational challenges.
2. The concerned agencies implement the four recommendations of the ACC on systematic analysis to eliminate corruption loopholes and submit an Action Taken Report to the House during the next session. 

In addition to the recommendations made by the ACC, the Committee made the following recommendations:

1. The RCSC to consider exempting the clustering of the expert group such as legal and ICT divisions of ACC to maintain the confidentiality of information and effective service delivery.
2. The Government to provide adequate budgetary support for the capacity building of the ACC’s officials given the high attrition rate in the ACC, which stood at 15.06% and 35.5% of the existing staff having less than two years of work experience.
3. The ACC to recover the balance amount of about more than one billion for restitution since 2006 and submit an Action Taken Report to the Parliament reflecting the restitution amount from 2006 to 2023 in the next reporting year.

The House, during its deliberation, also resoundingly expressed the need for the ACC to collaborate with the Election Commission toward preventing corruption during conduct of election. A resolution on this matter was passed during the 8th session of the National Assembly.  

The House deliberated and endorsed the six recommendations made by the Committee with  all the 39  members present and voting, voting in favor.