Goa govt sets one-year deadline to weed out corruption

"The state government aims to weed out corruption from the state by the next Independence Day," Parrikar said, addressing a crowd after unfurling tri-colour near the Old Secretariat.

He said corruption at higher level has reduced in the state, but it does exist at the lower levels.

"The state government had given time till August 15 for the officers to reform their corrupt habits. Now the time is over. We will start acting on such officers who continue corrupt practice. They will have to face the music," he said.

"I have purposely not been saying zero corruption should be there. But the level of tolerance towards corruption should be zero, so corruption will come to a negligible level," Parrikar said.

Later, addressing a gathering of police officers, the Chief Minister appealed them to root out corruption at lower level. "The police department should have a vision and also zeal to execute it," he stressed.

"The government will stress on three crucial aspects