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    Anna Hazare & Jana Lokpal Bill

    Posted In India, Politics, Thoughtworks - By NitiN Kumar Jain On Friday, April 8th, 2011 With 23 Comments






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    For the last few days you must have heard the terms ‘Jana Lokpal Bill‘ and ‘Anna Hazare‘ in news channels, Twitter, Facebook, your office place, society and everybody is talking about it.

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    Having accepted all terms of Anna Hazare by Government of India and Anna all set to break his 4 long days fast, let’s see what he and we have achieved thru it.

    So what Jana Lokpal bill actually is. Well it’s not another gimmick by any political parties or media. It’s definitely a step towards a corruption free society in India. A step against the corruptions led by our politicians.

    As we all know that in almost all corruption the root belongs to some politicians from any political party. So to address these corruptions we need a committee that consists of non-political persons and who are well known in country for their honesty and excellence in different fields. This bill just addresses the same. It says that the a civic committe will establish which will be comprised of non-political persons and who are well known for their honesty in their fields. The members could be like Kiran Bedi, Anna Hazare, Nandan Nilekani etc. Common people will be able to lodge their complains directly to this committee against any kind of corruption. This committee will review the complains and according to the importance of the complains, they will bring up the issues to Government and Government will be bound to take some steps about the issues this committee raised.

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    Some other important features of this bill:

    1. There shall be an institution of Lokpal with ten members and headed by a Chairperson.
    2. That part of CBI which deals with cases of corruption, shall be merged with Lokpal.
    3. CVC and the entire internal vigilance set in various central government departments will be merged with Lokpal.
    4. Lokpal will be completely independent of the Government.
    5. Lokpal shall have jurisdiction over bureaucrats, politicians and judges.
    6. Lokpal shall have the powers to initiate investigations and prosecution without needing permission from any other agency.
    7. Public grievances are often linked to demands / expectations of bribery. Lokpal shall act as appellate authority and supervisory body for grievance redressal systems in all central government departments.
    8. Lokpal shall be responsible for providing protection against physical and professional victimization to whistle-blowers.
    9. Members and Chairperson in Lokpal shall be selected through a transparent and participatory process.
    10. The functioning of Lokpal shall be completely transparent to avoid it from becoming a hub of corruption.
    11. Any complaint of wrongdoing against an official of Lokpal shall be investigated and acted upon within a month through a transparent inquiry process.
    12. If charges are proved and conviction takes place, loss to the exchequer caused due to his wrongdoing shall be recovered from all those who are convicted.

    This kind of system is already successfully in many countries around the world and it will benefit the citizens of India from day one.

    Good work Mr. Anna Hazare, you have shown  that sitting on railway tracks, hitting people and sending them out of state does not work. Peace and peace works.

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    NitiN Kumar Jain

    Nitin works in an IT MNC professionally but blogs and owns NKJ Live. He is also the co-owner of a professional start-up ARGHAM BYTES

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    • Apparaovanka

      Sir, It is humbly submitted that the retired officers services be utilised to open the loopholes of their departmental burried irregularities best known to them but remain helpless on looker and pass on in a routine way inevitbly.He can be entrusted with specific cases of irregularities in that department that can be probed and identified by that retired officer which may help to establish the prmafacia cases with evidence.ALL THIS CAN BE GOT DONE WITHOUT EXTRA FINANCIAL COMMITMENT.Some such cases examples are (1) Letting off the big contractors without recovery of INCOMTAX to be deducted at source i.e while making payment to the contractors or even recovered I.T as an eye wash is being refunded to the contractors without remitting to the Incme Tax department subsequently with malified intention and thus extending the unintended benefit at the cost of Exchequer inlieu of illegal gratifications.This may run in several crores of rupees.(2)Boosting of estmations of works by providing absolutely unnecessary type of works such as providing foundation items for purely repair works for repiairing canals etc.(3)Granting HIGHER rates for items such as removing sand and other soils and removing garbage in the alignments.(4)Paying higher rates to the contractors in respect of works for which not provided/not approved by higher authorities.This is only speck of the collasal fire and not exhaustive The services of retired competent officers by prior identifying them by the competent authority in the proposed machinery of th JAN LOKPAL to be directly submitted by the already identified retired officer after examining his antecedents etc. This is submitted by a retired offr VANKA.APPARAO,D4 VAMSI APARTMENTS JAGANNADHAPURAM AKKYYAPALEM P.O VISAKHAPATNAM PIN 530016 ANDHRA PRADESH

      • http://nitinkumarjain.in NitiN Kumar Jain

        We really appreciate your response …

    • Apparaovanka

      Retired
      as audit officer on public works accounts and accquinted very much with all
      types of frauds and  miscarriages of the
      estimations,measurements ,bills,fraudulent claims and misappropriations
      etc.such as not recovering Incomtax TDS from contractors.but refunding the
      amounts to contractors inrespect of amounts recovered and kept in deposits of
      the dept.Unauthorised granting of advances etc. the irregularities
      exhaustive.All types of unauthorised benifits which may cost the exchequer
      unnecessarily. The only thing is that all the relevent records should be made
      available under the orders of  the
      ensuing new competent authority under JANLOKPAL ACT 2011A detailed procedural
      report will be submitted at appropriate time when called from your end. Iam
      trained and under technical controll of the Accountant General under the
      C&AG(comptroller and and Auditor General of India) who pegged out the scam of
      about Rs1,00,000 crores in 2G and many other such GHUTALAAS. I am having more
      than 33 years experience in this subject 

      • Shyamvanka

        Yes,such experienced know-how people are required and the irregularities should be investigated and meted with proper action including recovery of the loss restored to the exchequer.—-shyamkumar.v.v.r.s

        • http://nitinkumarjain.in NitiN Kumar Jain

          Absolutely agreed …

    • Raj Kumar

       Totally political stunt..aur kuch bhi nhi hai…Anna ji name & fame k liye indian
      public ko misguide na kro….

      • http://nitinkumarjain.in NitiN Kumar Jain

        this is too funny … he doesn’t need name and fame .. Thank GOD you and people like you were not born  during Independence struggle else u wud have said this for Bapu too …

      • http://nitinkumarjain.in NitiN Kumar Jain

        this is too funny … he doesn’t need name and fame .. Thank GOD you and people like you were not born  during Independence struggle else u wud have said this for Bapu too …

    • Monika

      Anna Ji ur also a part of corruption why u don’t submitted “  audited accounts were not submitted to the Charity Commissioner for 1998-2002  ”

      • http://nitinkumarjain.in NitiN Kumar Jain

        Are u sure he did not .. should cross-check that .. can our political parties put the donation list on their respective websites … no way they can .. but anna and baba ramdev can do .. coz they know they are innocents ..

        • A19anuj81

          anna ji,do u think that laws can be made by civilians,,every laws must be passed in parliament only…today his approach has been spoiling the image of India all over the world
          though he may be gaining support and popularity. The negative image
          about India has gone from New Delhi to New York and now in other parts
          of the world. Laws cannot be made at the behest of civil society. Civil
          society does not have any accountability except that they can express
          their view fearlessly..

    • Deep

      He said the utilisation of the Trust money for Hazare’s birthday celebration in his home
      village in Maharashtra was the only one allegation proved against him.

      • http://nitinkumarjain.in NitiN Kumar Jain

        and it was not even proved against him .. he was acquitted from the charge ..

        • A19anuj81

          if u think he was acquitted from the charge ..then indian judiciery not curupted or what?and if every judge or ministers are curupted then how he was acquited.

          • http://nitinkumarjain.in NitiN Kumar Jain

            you can read the details … it was not corruption at all ..

    • http://nitinkumarjain.in NitiN Kumar Jain

      if our opposition would have been stronger then Anna would have not come up at all …

      • Jaice

        halo
        sure anna is standing for a good cause… but we shall not under estimate the damage he causes to the stability of our system. we have a very strong democratic parliamentary system. how can we imagine some lokpal people sit above the Chief Justice and prime minister and put their pressure!!! How can we imagine somebody, how high he may, comes one day and say that a law shall be passed by the parliament as he wishes and otherwise he will die..?? is this an encroachment over the supremacy of our parliament and its rights..and over all the supremacy of the constitution. even if we pass such a law, the court shall be constrained to set aside the provisions making PM and CJI etc under the lok pal, as against the baic structure of the constitution… let us see…
        Jaice Jacob

        • Paritoshkantic

          Anna Hazare movement is successful in highlighting source of all corruption.It is the present political class.Power is concentrated there only & sale of power as a commodity is corruption.

    • http://nitinkumarjain.in NitiN Kumar Jain

      yes .. same here

    • http://nitinkumarjain.in NitiN Kumar Jain

      From your words I assume that you are okay with so much corruption in India …

      • Mr Simple1985

        Dear Nitin If corruption will go , all the bribers would have to go hell. so they will try to quit from lokpalbill

    • I support Hazare Anna G.

      “This kind of system is already successfully in many countries… “. I’ll make it easy for you.. name ONE.

      P.S.: Don’t claim all the countries with ombudsmen, since no ombudsmen in any country are given as much power over governmental institutions, while not having any democratically elected members, WHILE not being externally supervised (if not by the government, then by some other independent body).

      • http://nitinkumarjain.in NitiN Kumar Jain

        That’s right ….