India Against Corruption

All my dear Indians.....Congratulations, India has moved from rank 94 in 2009*  to 91 in  2010*. What a proud moment for all of us, We have improved consistently in the field of corruption. Atleast this is what figures say

 

 India  - 3.3 CPI where 0 is Most Corrupt

Malawi, Lesotho, Vanuatu..... Heard of these countries before? Neither have I . Even such non heard countries are doing better than us.

Two consecutive headlines on BBC's news bar -> "India celebrates World cup victory against Sri Lanka", "Indian Telecom minister and his aide to be interrogated by the CBI in the multi-billion dollar scam".

See we are famous for two things :-
1. Cricket
2. Scams

We won the Cricket WC after 28 years, what a struggle. Unfortunately, there is no Scam World Cup, else we would have have been undisputed champions for 28 years.

Enough said about the problem, the solution to it lies in total Transparency.
Noted social activist Anna Hazare alongwith Shri Shri Ravishankar, Baba Ramdev, Kiran Bedi, Syed Rizvi, Archbishop Vincent M Concesso and many others have started a drive "India Against Corruption". They demand implementation of two bills, one "Jan Lokpal" at centre and similar one "Jan Lokpat" at state level.

The bill says - Investigations in any case will have to be completed in one year. Trial should be completed in next one year so that the corrupt politician, officer or judge is sent to jail within two years

The Jan-Lokpal committee will be headed by a person who is not related to any political party neither does he/she has a business. The office term will be for 5 years. This clause is a problem with the govt.

How clever is our PM....he makes a anti-corruption committee(CVC) which is headed by his own person. So no chance of being caught. Jan-Lokpal would ensure the PM and Chidabaram cannot fool Indians by appointing a corrupt person like Thomas as CVC.

Govt of India was to introduce a similar bill("Lokpal") however, they have crafted things only for their ease. Let see how it compares...

Lokpal	Jan-Lokpal
Doesn't have powers to initiate action. It is a advisory body	It is not a advisory body but has powers to initiate actions.
Legally unsound, doesn't say anything about FIR and role of CBI	Mentions all aspects of FIR and CBI.
Strong Punishment for Wrong complaints. Hence, you wont be alive to complain next time.	A disciplinary action against inapt complaints
Committee of 3 people involving only retired judges.	Committee of 10 people from various backgrounds. 4 from Judiciary compulsory.
No power to investigate PM.  No time limit for case.	Can investigate.  Time limit of max 1 year to give the result.
Only Speaker decides which complaints to look on.	No hearing would go off without being heard.
Doesn't give security to people who would file complaints.	Gives!
Min punishment - 6 months, Max - 7 years	Min punishment - 5 years, Max - life imprisonment

Clearly bent to support politicians.

Many letters were written to govt officials and everyone except the ruling party has accepted it. Sonia Gandhi, PM, more are either not responding or delayed things giving their reasons.

Now, if You support this drive, please spread the word. Join their Facebook Committee.  Send SMSs, emails. Save your country !
Do not forget to **Vote Against Corruption and their official website is **http://indiaagainstcorruption.org/
 

*91 rank where 1 is most corrupt... the rank is 87 if one looks in reverse order. 
**Website may be down for sometime as too many votes are being registered

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