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Carry on, India, debate Lokpal act .What is the Jan Lokpal Bill?It is a Bill drafted by a, former Supreme Court judge and the present

Lokayukta of Karnataka; a Supreme Court lawyer; and Magsaysay

Award winner and social activist Arvind Kejriwal.According to 'India Against Corruption', the web site where the Bill has

been made public, the Jan Lokpal Bill, once deliberated and passed,

may be an "act to create effective anti-corruption and grievanceredressal systems at the centre so that effective deterrent is created

against corruption and to provide effective protection to whistleblowers".


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"WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constituteIndia into a SOVEREIGN

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, and to secure to all its

citizens :

JUSTICE, social, economic and political;

LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;

EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them

all;FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity of

the

Nation:

IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLYthis twenty-sixth day ofNovember, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TOOURSELVESTHIS CONSTITUTION."

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After the establishment of the Republic of India there is a

widely shared desire in the country to evaluate the gains

made as also to assess our future.

Undoubtedly, the people of the country and the managers

of society can be congratulated on many counts for India's

achievements since independence which include

self-sufficiency (in fact surplus generation) in food-grains,

a strong industrial base,

a rising expectancy of life,

a higher percentage of literacy, a united and better integrated India and

a growing recognition by the world of our capabilities and

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On the negative side, one could count the nagging

problems of

unemployment, illiteracy and

poverty accentuated by

an ever increasing population.

Also, there is a low per capita income,

inadequate infrastructure and

feudalistic tendencies.

A pathetic weakening of rule of law and ethics in publiclife is seen with a section of administration which isperceived as self seeking and citizen unfriendly.

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There is nothing to be proud of India's ranking in the

Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index

2009.

The country ranked low also in the Bribe Payers Index

among emerging economic giants.

The use of public funds for private gain is common. The misuse of power, position and privilege is widespread. Corruption seems to be a fact that affects all sections of

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To end corruption in public life in India

Corruption in public life is one of the most

daunting issues facing the country. Vedic dictum

is, Satyam vadha - dharmam charah (Speak

Truth, practise dharma). Our nations motto is

Satyameva Jayate or Truth will triumph.

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INDIA can become a Nation, which is best described in the

words ofRabindranath Tagore

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by

narrow domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towardsperfection;

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into

the dreary desert sand of dead habit;

Where the mind is led by thee into ever widening thoughtand action- Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my

country awake."

Source: Gitanjali, verse XXXV.

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We shall overcome wrong trends.Quotes fromYoga Vasishta,Hind Swaraj andAnna Hazare

Selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability,

openness, honesty and leadership by example

should form the standards for holding publicoffice.


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Adopting this strategy, we can definitely see India becoming a lesscorrupt, progressive and developed country in the next 10 to 15years.

Om Shanti! Shanti! Shanti

(Let us come together. Letus enjoy together. Let our

strengths come together.

Let us move from

darkness to light. Let us

avoid the poison of

misunderstanding and

hatred. That way lies

progress.)

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There is need to re-examine our culture, which has

normalised corruption in its many different forms. We in

India need to acknowledge the need for introspection on

our acceptance of the abuse of power.

The Seven Nolan Principles of Public Life selflessness,

integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and

leadership by example should form the standards forholding public office. There should be regular and

independent reviews of individual and organisational

functioning. The challenge is to inspire and change

individuals and to transcend and transform societal norms.(K.S. Jacob, Professor of Psychiatry at the Christian

Medical College, Vellore.)

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Self-control, O Rama, is the best remedy for all physical andmental ills. When there is self-control, even the food you eat

tastes better, else it tastes bitter. He who wears the armourof self-control is not harmed by sorrow.

He who even while hearing, touching, seeing, smelling and

tasting what is regarded as pleasant and unpleasant, is

neither elated nor depressed he is self-controlled.

He who looks upon all beings with equal vision, having

brought under control the sensations of pleasure and pain,

is self-controlled. He who though living amongst all isunaffected by them, neither feels elated nor hates, even as

one is during sleep he is self-controlled.

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Inquiry (the second gate-keeper to liberation,Vichara) should be undertaken by an intelligence

that has been purified by a close study of the

scripture, and this inquiry should be unbroken.

By such inquiry the intelligence becomeskeen and is able to realize the supreme;

hence inquiry alone is the best remedy for

the long-lasting illness known as the life cycle

world (samsara.)

Means of liberation


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Satsanga (company of wise, holy and

enlightened persons) is yet another gatekeeper

to liberation. Satsanga enlarges onesintelligence, destroys ones ignorance and

ones psychological distress. Whatever be the

cost, however difficult it may be, whatever

obstacles may stand in its way, satsanga should

never be neglected. For, satsanga alone is

ones light on the path of life. Satsanga is

indeed superior to all other forms of religiouspractices like charity, austerity, pilgrimages and

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TYPOLOGY OF CORRUPTION,

Analyse, Act and realize swarajGandhi & hind swaraj

Anna Hazare & rural self-help

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Corruption is defined as the use of publicoffice for private gains

Scales of corruption can be Grand, Middling orPetty and payment of bribes can be due to

collusion between the bribe taker and the bribegiver, due to coercion or even anticipatory. Existence of corruption implies that there are

corrupt people, there are also corrupt practices,and there is a corrupt system.

Therefore, all the three have to be foughtsimultaneously to eliminate the vice ofcorruption.

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The concept ofCitizen Charters has been introduced toimprove the quality of public services. It ensures

accountability, transparency and quality of services provided

by various government organistions. It enables citizens to

avail of services with minimum hassle, in reasonable time,

and at a minimum cost.

Effective implementation of Citizens Charters will go a long

way in controlling corruption. The Government of India has

launched an ambitious programme for formulation and

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"We are responsible for what

we are, and whatever we wish

ourselves to be, we have the

power to make ourselves. If

what we are now has been the

result of our own past actions,it certainly follows that

whatever we wish to be in

future can be produced by our

present actions; so we have toknow how to act. "

-- Swami Vivekananda

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Anna Hazare says

Over every huge tree that we see over ground, there alwaysis a seed that had submerged itself into the darkness ofthe soil.

Ban on consumption and sale of alcohol lays thefoundation of rural development.

It is impossible to change the village without transformingthe individual. Similarly it is impossible to transform thecountry without changing its villages.

If villages are to develop, politics have to be kept out. Education without spirituality cannot help development. In the process of rural development, social and economic

development should go hand in hand

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Anna Hazare says

The work of social transformation is neither

easy nor impossible.

The ultimate goal of all politics and social

work should be the upliftment of society and

of the nation.

Educational institutions are not enough to

make good citizens, every home should

become an educational center.

Indulgence causes disease whereassacrifice leads to accomplishment.

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Selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability,openness, honesty and leadership by example

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What we mean and want through

Poorna Swaraj is an awakeningamong the masses, a knowledgeamong them of their true interest

and ability to serve that interest

against the whole world, ..

harmony, freedom from aggressionfrom within or without, and a

progressive improvement in the

economic condition of the masses

(YI, 18-6-1931, p. 147)


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The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb. It

requires attention to details.

It means vast organizing ability, it meanspenetration into the villages solely for the service

of the villagers.

In other words, it means national education, i.e.,

education of the masses. It means an awakening of national consciousness

among the masses.

It will not spring like the magicians mango.

It will grow almost unperceived like the banyantree.

A bloody revolution will never perform the trick.

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The Swaraj spirit

The splendor of the spring isreflected in every tree, the

whole earth is then filledwith the freshness of youth.

Similarly, when the Swarajspirit has really permeatedsociety, a stranger suddenly

come upon us will observeenergy in very walk of life, hewill find national servantsengaged, each according tohis own abilities, in a varietyof public activities.

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Hind Swaraj: Indian Home Rule -M. K. Gandhi (1909)But whether India may be ripe for it or not, it is best forIndians to study the seminal book which contains the

ultimate logical conclusion of the acceptance of the twin

principles of Truth and Non-violence, and then decide

whether these principles should be accepted.Perhaps there are no other people in the world who show

so much in their characters the advantageous effects of

their own civilisation. They are shrewd in business, acute

in reasoning, thrifty, religious, sober, charitable, obedientto parents, referential to old age, amiable, law abiding,

compassionate towards the helpless, and patient under

suffering. That observation was made in 1883 __Why are

we corrupt today?


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Hind Swaraj and Mohandas Gandhi

Social reform, self-purification and politics were

inseparable in Gandhis view; the discourse of

self-purification and social reform had to become apublic, mass debate, it had to be articulated within

the political realm. An attempt to see beauty in

voluntary simplicity, voluntary poverty and

slowness; it is the enunciation, in other words of a

different aesthetic that rejects the narrative of

progress and modernity.

Hind Swaraj, Gandhi seems to be suggesting, should be

read as a poem and Gandhi as a poet, in the great tradition

of classical dramas.

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The Gandhian intervention was not merely an

intervention in the specifics of the Indian political

conjuncture at different critical moments; it was an

intervention through which a certain elemental

experience of epic proportions spoke out. It may

have found its voices through the persons of a

Thoreau, Ruskin or a Tolstoy, but it was the

Gandhian intervention that provided them the

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voluntary simplicity, voluntary poverty

I do not think any one can beat me in my passion

for guarding and expending public money like a

miser. The reason is: Public money belongs to thepoor public of India than whom there is none

poorer on earth.

- Young India: April 16, 1931

A public fund becomes public property and

therefore every member of the public is entitled to

know in detail the administration of such funds.

- Young India: Feb. 24,1927

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This repeated desire to reconnect with nature of which

Human beings are but one part underlines what is probably

the most fundamental part of Gandhis critique of modernity.Through this he seems to be repeatedly telling us that we have

strayed too far from home.

In staging this philosophical encounter between modernity (or

modern or industrial civilisation, as he calls it) and its

other/s, Gandhi makes it very clear that it is not the colonised

/ globalised who suffers from some lack but rather, the

colonising /globalising and imperialist power that is afflicted.

With the disease that is modern civilisation, [Globalisation?] he

also makes it clear that this modern civilisation has not merelycolonised others outside its domain, it has also destroyed

forms of life within its domain.

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Through Truth And Nonviolence

If we wish to achieve Swaraj through truth and non-

violence, gradual but steady building-up from the

bottom upwards by constructive effort is the onlyway.

This rules out the deliberate creation of an

anarchical state for the overthrow of the

established order in the hope of throwing up from

within a dictator who would rule with a rod of iron

and produce order out disorder.

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Genius Of Our Civilization

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of ourcivilization. I want to write many new thing but they

must be all written on the Indian slate. I wouldgladly borrow from the West when I can return the

amount with decent interest.

If Swaraj was not meant to civilize us, and to purify

and stabilize our civilization, it would be worthnothing. The very essence of our civilization is thatwe give a paramount place to morality in all our

affairs, public or private.

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Gandhi: about education

By education I mean an all-round drawing out ofthe best in

the child and man- body, mind and spirit.

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.It is only one of the means whereby man and woman can

be educated.

Literacy in itself is no education. I would therefore begin

the child's education by teaching it a useful handicraft and

enabling it to produce from the moment it begins its

training.....

My NAI TALIM is not dependent on money. The running

expenses should come from the educational process itself.

Whatever the criticisms may be, I know that the onlyeducation is that which is 'self-supporting'.

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THE ANCIENT aphorism, 'Education is that which

liberates' is as true today as it was before.

Education here does not mean mere spiritual

knowledge, nor does liberation signify only

spiritual liberation after death. Knowledge

includes all training that is useful for the service

of mankind and liberation means freedom from

all manner of servitude even in the present life.

Servitude is of two kinds: slavery to domination

from outside and to one's own artificial needs.The knowledge acquired in the pursuit of this

ideal alone constitutes true study.

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We get what Government we deserve. When we

improve, the Government is also bound to

improve. Only when we improve can we attainswaraj. - Young India: Nov. 10, 1920.

The swaraj that I dream of will be a possibility

when the nation is free to make its choice of both

good and evil and not be good at the dictation of

an irresponsible, insolent and godless

bureaucracy. - Young India: Dec. 08, 1920.

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Estrangement, disenchantment and a certain loss of

connection with humanitys fundamental relationship to

nature seem to be constant concerns in Gandhis

dramatisation of the modern predicament. Ahimsa or non-violence is therefore often explicated by him, as a way of re-establishing that connection.

It seems that his hope was that a big mass nationalist

movement of peasants and artisans would make it possible

to reverse the processes of mechanisation and factory

production, as more and more people could be inspired to

produce for their own consumption.


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Today policy failure is writ large and

governance is failing all around. This is due to

the growth in size of the black economy fromabout 4 % of GDP in 1955-56 to the present

50 %.

The implication is that illegality in the countryhas grown and touches almost every activity.


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Is honesty divisible among financial social

and political matters? Can one be financially

be honest but dishonest in other spheres? Is

it honesty when when scams are allowed to

take place but one personally does not take

any money? Honesty is not just individual but

systemic and if the number of scams grow in

size and numbers, can the head of the

government escape responsibility given thehuge social and political consequences?


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An analysis was conducted by Transparency India in 2007 toidentify possible gaps between the UN Convention againstCorruption (UNCAC) and the legal and institutional frameworkin place in the country. The report confirmed the good qualityof the legal framework against corruption in India, with existinglegislation in line with most of the requirements of the UNCAC.The largest and almost only - substantial gap was identifiedby the report in the area of whistleblower protection. Lawenforcement, however, remains weak, suggesting a lack ofpolitical will to effectively address corruption challenges in thecountry.


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..a break READ some fiction Claims and allegations Allegations ? Money laundering Convictions and court-cases Enquiry, letter rogatory ? found empty !


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TO ELIMINATE BLACK ECONOMY NOW

Money laundering story from an unknown countryof a distant planet. This fictional accountillustrates possibilities of tax havens andgeneration of black money that harms thecountrys economy. Tackling this needs servicesof bunch of Sherlock Holmeses.


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National MagazineFrom the publishersof fiction

ECONOMIC OFFENCESDealing with dirty moneyThe alarming growth in the volume of money-laundering and its links with other crimes, includingthe illicit trade in narcotics, have made it a majorglobal problem.


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Story endsPrevent economic offences and save countrys corruption perception index number!

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What do you think could have been the

intention of those farseeing ancestors of ours

who established Setubandha (Rameshwar) in

the South, Jagannath in the East and Hardwar

in the North as places of pilgrimage? They

knew that worship of God could have beenperformed just as well at home. They taught

us that those whose hearts were aglow with

righteousness had the Ganges in their ownhomes

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But they saw that India was one undivided

land so made by nature. They, therefore,

argued that it must be one nation. Arguing

thus, they established holy places in various

parts of India, and fired the people with an

idea of nationality in manner unknown in

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It was a charge against India that her people are so

uncivilized, ignorant and stolid, that it was not possible

to induce them to adopt any changes. It is a chargereally against our merit. What we have tested and

found true on the anvil of experience, we dare not

change. Many thrust their advice upon India, and she

remains steady. This is her beauty: it is the sheet-anchor of our hope. Civilization is that mode of conduct

which points out to man the path of duty. Performance

of duty and observance of morality are convertible

terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over ourmind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.

The Gujarati equivalent for civilization means good

conduct.


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If this definition be correct, then India, as so many

writers have shown, has nothing to learn from

anybody else, and this is as it should be. We noticethat the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the

more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more

we indulge our passions the more unbridled they

become. Our ancestors, therefore set a limit to ourindulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a

mental condition. A man is not necessarily happybecause he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.The rich are often seen to be unhappy, the poor to be

happy. Millions will always remain poor. Observing all

this, our ancestors dissuaded us from luxuries and

pleasures.


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The Indian civilization, as described by me, has been

so described by its votaries. In no part of the world,

and under no civilization, have all men attainedperfection. The tendency of the Indian civilization is to

elevate the moral being, that of the Western

civilization is to propagate material prosperity. The

latter is godless, the former is based on a belief inGod. So understanding and so believing, it behoves

every lover of India to cling to the old Indian civilization

even as a child clings to the mothers breast.

__Mohandas Gandhi, in Hind Swaraj

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Because the sons of India were found wanting, its

civilization has been placed in jeopardy. But its

strength is to be seen in its ability to survive the

shock. Moreover, the whole of India is not touched.

Those alone who have been affected by Western

civilization have become enslaved. We measure the

universe by our own miserable foot-rule. When we areslaves, we think that the whole universe is enslaved.

Because we are in an abject condition, we think that

the whole of India is in that condition. As a matter of

fact, it is not so, yet it is as well to impute our slaveryto the whole of India. But if we bear in mind the

above fact, we can see that if we become free, India

is free.


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It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.

It is, therefore, in the palm of our hands. Do not

consider this Swaraj to be like a dream. Thereis no idea of sitting still. The Swaraj that I wish

to picture is such that, after we have once

realized it, we shall endeavour to the end of ourlife-time to persuade others to do likewise. But

such Swaraj has to be experienced, by each

one for himself. One drowning man will neversave another. Slaves ourselves, it would be a

mere pretension to think of freeing others.


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Passive resistance is an all-sided sword, it

can be used anyhow; it blesses him who

uses it and him against whom it is used.Without drawing a drop of blood it

produces far-reaching results.

It never rusts and cannot be stolen.

Competition between passive resisters

does not exhaust. The sword of passive

resistance does not require a scabbard.


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1. Real home-rule is self-rule or self-control.

2. The way to it is passive resistance:

that is soul-force or love-force.

3. In order to exert this force, Swadeshi in every sense

is necessary.

4. What we want to do should be done, not because

we object to the English / Govt. or because we

want to retaliate but because it is our duty to do so.


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In the midstofalleged corruptions,

an agitation for Lokpal bill in IndiaSocial Activism and rural leadership of

Anna Hazare


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Corruption is a two-way street. For every bribe taker,

there is a bribe giver. While the debate on

corruption in our country has focused on the

demand side of corruption, i.e., on public servants

and politicians who demand bribes, there has been

a thundering silence on the supply side ofcorruption, i.e., around the business community

which bribes the public servants and politicians. It

is therefore interesting to note the business

communitys focus on the issue ofethics inbusiness. Recently the CII organised a session on

ethics and corporate integrity.


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Anna Hazare Kisan Baburao Hazare, popularly knownas Anna Hazare (June 15, 1938), is an

Indian social activist. who is especiallyrecognized for his contribution to the

development ofRalegan Siddhi, a

village in Ahmednagar district,

Maharashtra, India and his efforts for

establishing it as a model village, forwhich he was awarded the Padma

Bhushan by Govt. of India, in 1992. He

is also one of the leading figures who

championed the cause of Right to

Information Act in India. He is knownfor his crusade towards fighting

corruption in public offices

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People understand their environment much better

than anybody else from outside. Hence, people'sparticipation is an essential element and pre-

requisite for, any development initiative to be

successful. Hence, it needs to be designed into

development programs from the beginning.

The initiatives to mobilize people should be

people/community and place specific. Any kind of

generalization may be harmful.

The weak, poor and women need special

consideration and concessions for their fuller

participation.


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AGITATION FOR LOKPAL : April-201171


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The government's decision ended the 97-hour fast

here by veteran reformer Anna Hazare -- an

unparalleled people's movement against corruption inrecent years.

"India is recognizing the issue in time for it to be dealt

with. This is in a way better than what the situation is

in many developed and emerging economies, whichseem to be in denial," _ Muthuraman, president-

designate of the Confederation of Indian Industry .

added.

The central government Saturday issued a gazettenotification constituting a joint committee headed by

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to draft an anti-

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Drafted by Justice Santosh Hegde, Prashant

Bhushan and Arvind Kejriwal, this Bill has been

refined on the basis of feedback received from

public on website and after series of publicconsultations. It has also been vetted by and is

supported by Shanti Bhushan, J M Lyngdoh,

Kiran Bedi, Anna Hazare.


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The central government issued a gazette

notification constituting a joint committee

headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjeeto draft an anti-graft Lokpal (ombudsman) Bill.Excerpts from the notification:

"Government of India here by constitutes ajoint drafting committee to prepare a draft of

the Lokpal Bill. The joint drafting committee

will consist of five nominee ministers of the

Government of India and five nominees of

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The Jan Lokpal crafted initially by Kejriwal, Hegde, Bhushan

and refined by countless citizens is an effective deterrent anda necessary step to eliminate corruption.

The bill should be further refined and passed within the next

30-60 days even if it means convening an extraordinary

session of parliament What does we are tackling corruption

on a war footing mean .


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"I believe the meeting will be of an introductory nature," the senior lawyersaid.Besides Hazare and Bhushan, the civil society has three morerepresentatives on the panel - former law minister Shanti Bhushan, who isalso the co-chairman of the committee, RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal andformer Supreme Court judge Santosh Hegde.The 10-member committee isheaded by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. The other ministerialmembers on the panel are Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Law MinisterVeerappa Moily, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal andMinority Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed.The government agreed to include the civil society leaders in the committeeafter Hazare went on indefinite fast in Delhi, which was called off after 97hours April 9.


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