Comparative Study Of Public Sector Whistle- Blower Protection: The Indian And UK Perspective
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Ashvidha Sadhasivam, Assistant Professor of Law, KMC College of Law
ABSTRACT:
Whistleblowing is a tool for good corporate governance in which workers expose wrongdoing to the public or other higher authorities that occurs in the organization. Whistleblowing is the disclosure of information by a person, and the individual who blows the whistle is known as the whistleblower. This pose like a whistle that sounds everywhere both in the corporations and also among the general public.
In India, whistleblowers are retaliated for exposing wrongdoing; this might lead to reduced counts of whistleblowers in recent years. Though there is legislation safeguarding whistleblowers, their protection is not yet stringent. This research study delves into the realm of public sector whistleblowing, encompassing government departments, agencies, enterprises, and organizations delivering public goods and services at both central and state levels. Public sector employees are those who belong to the part of the economy that is controlled or owned by the government. There are whistleblowers in various other sector, however the public servants in the institutional mechanisms, who have a lot of information regarding corruption and thereby they go forward to complaint, though there are no appropriate protection systems to act on such corruptions. In India, many practical incidents which took place unfairly to those who exposed such corruption, namely the first whistleblower of India, Mr. Satyendra Dubey.
Keywords: whistleblower, public sector, legislative framework, policy, coal industry, instances, India, UK.
