What is Agreed List?
IT is a list of potentially corrupt and clever officers, maintained by CBI and Government Departments. CBI in consultation with the Department concerned makes a list of officers who they think are corrupt, but are too clever to be caught. So they are not given sensitive postings. In many of the cases, there is no real logic or basis for keeping an officer in the ‘agreed list' - it is just the opinion of CBI and the Departmental Head. And it is quite possible that the Head of the Department, who agreed to keep one of his officers in the LIST, is himself corrupt. Nothing happens to the officers in the ‘agreed list' as they are posted to places where there is no opportunity for corruption and after three years, they are certified to be honest and repatriated to the corruptible and coveted posts.
The tragedy is most often, the affected officers don't even know that they are in the agreed list and some blissfully ignorant officers don't even know that there is an agreed list !