<span style="color: #222222;">J&K Chief Secretary, B V R Subrahmanyam yesterday chaired a meeting to take stock of the measures to be put in place to check corruption in various departments. AIR Jammu Correspondent reports that Mr. Subrahmanyam urged departments to promote transparency and accountability, follow model practices and carry out systemic reforms to curb corruption in the governance system. <br />''<br />''He asked Administrative Secretaries to suggest measures to check corruption in their departments within a week. At the outset of the meeting, Financial Commissioner, Finance, was informed about numerous steps taken by the department to curb financial irregularities, thus, reducing the scope of processes that breed corruption. It is now mandatory for all government departments to execute projects/works only through e-tendering, make purchases through GeM, generate bills on JK Payment System (Pay Sys) portal, and make payments through Aadhar seeded DBT. They are also required to ensure geo-tagging of created assets along with their photographs.</span><br />