Former Chief Vigilance Commissioner N Vittal on Friday favoured setting up of a 'neutral committee' for appointment to 'sensitive posts.'

Commenting on the arrest of the personal assistant to Minister of State for Finance Gingee Ramachandran on bribery charge, he said the panel could be modelled on the lines of the one existing for selecting the CBI director.

On the sidelines of a World Bank conference on development economics, he said that he had made this recommendation earlier as CVC and hoped the Union Finance Minister Jaswant Singh would take the initiative for setting up the committee to check the 'auction of lucrative government posts.'

Vittal also criticised the political system which encouraged the nexus between politicians and bureaucrats to amass wealth to fund elections, generating large amount of black money.

He, however, felt that state funding of elections was no solution.

Vittal said the IT officer who was alleged to have paid Rs 400,000 bribe to the minister's PA R Perumalswamy could not be described as 'a victim but a villain' as it was common in the government to seek 'lucrative posts' in Delhi or Mumbai which were 'fertile fields for corruption.'