Jaipur, July 16 -- Corruption is the root cause of the social inequality as it bars mainly the poor people from getting access to government services, said chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma on the foundation day of the state's Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB). "Corruption is not something that is limited to taking bribes but it also affects the people at the ground level. The impact of the corruption is beyond a mere degradation of moral value of the officers. It bars people standing in the end in our society from getting access to our schemes and other services. Corruption is the root cause of the social inequality," Sharma said on Tuesday while addressing the event at Jaipur's Rajasthan International Centre. Pointing out that corruption starts from one's home, he said that the ones committing such crime must be used to it at their home and nearby locality as "it's an illness". "But it is enough to generate a distrust among the public of the administration. We don't want to make Rajasthan such a state which is not trustworthy and is suffering from inequality. The one that we want to make Rajasthan requires a zero tolerance to such corruption," he said. Giving details of some major actions that have been taken by the ACB in the last few days, the CM said: "We have made the approval process under the 17 A of the Prevention of Corruption Act faster and also gave a nod to a large number of pending prosecution applications against several officers. We have also terminated many of them and suspended pensions. We will not tolerate anyone who is involved in corruption." Referring to the two assistant police superintendents of the ACB who were arrested last month for taking bribes, CM said, "It proves that the agency is vigilant even inside their house. Nobody is beyond the law." "As a CM, we are ready to provide all the necessary resources to the agency to develop their infrastructure and accelerate their work. But it is the responsibility of the agency to protect the public and ensure a transparent administration in Rajasthan." The event was also attended by chief secretary Sudhans Pant, home secretary Bhaskar Sawant, director general of police Rajeev Sharma, additional DG of the ACB Smita Shrivastava along with a slew of retired top officials of the agency. Addressing the event, Pant stressed on the e-filing process to make the system less human interactive to ensure transparency. "This process also makes it quicker to clear the files that prevents giving a good time for committing such corruption. Earlier, it used to take an average of 30 to 35 hours to clear a file. But, after the e-filing process was launched in the state, my average time to clear 12,767 files has been reduced to an average of one-two hours. The ACB should also focus on it while they must also make an SOP to clear the year-long pending cases." DGP Sharma also said that the state's ACB unit is showing a significant performance to act against the corruptions. "After Maharashtra, Rajasthan is the second state in India to act against the maximum number of corruption cases. Many other states have also sent their teams here to understand our SOP and system to work. It's a matter of pride for us." "However, it is also important to maintain that standard. I assure the CM that the ACB is committed to make this state corruption-free," he added....