Saturday, April 16, 2011

Lokpal Bill:Mitigation Corruption in high places

Civil society five member team is not making an efforts to listen to other intellectuals on the issue of Lokpal Bill. Anybody when gives inputs ask the member to fill in suggestion in their website thus stopping the interaction to me it appears that entire team is ignorant of the subject what is interaction and transparency and thus behaving like babus class of knowing everything and elite
behaving busy. Then why another body which is not different from the powerful lobby and many of us wish to be part of it: There are many Think tanks in this country working on autonomous bodies and other democratic structure's but their papers languish with nobody taking notice:Lokpal bill with likely to decay of same fate that of RTI which has limited scope:People fail to talk on Transparency -Law Minister remarks at silver jublee celebration of Institute of Objective studies said the country badly needs transparency in all government structure and veil of secrecy must be lifted to being inclusive growth and assured the audience soon the bill on this subject of transparency and accountability is in pipeline: Government today said, it has an open mind on the Lokpal Bill. The 10-member Joint Committee will hold its first meeting tomorrow to draft the Lokpal Bill. Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily hoped that discussions will pave way for a convergence of ideas on the anti-corruption legislation. Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, who is also on the panel told reporters in New Delhi that the government, civil society and common people - all have one target that there should be greater transparency and responsibilities should be clearly fixed in the bill.
The minister said that the focus of the committee is to find the best way in which corruption in high places can be effectively tackled.
The minister also disapproved of political parties raking up issues related to the proposed Bill, saying it would be better if comments are made only after an outline on the bill emerges.In this efforts an audio CD, containing phone conversation between former Law Minister Shanti Bhushan and Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and involving alleged talk of Bhushan's son Prashant Bhushan being able to “manage very well,” has kicked off a controversy ahead of the first meeting of the joint committee meeting to discuss the Lokpal Bill. Bhushans in the joint committee to draft the Bill repeatedly said the CD was “fabricated” and was “intended and manufactured to defame” them.

Anna Hazare said, in his view, the higher judiciary should not be brought under the Lokpal Bill.“When the Lokpal Bill comes into force, there has to be an authority to deliver verdicts on the cases that will come up and that authority cannot be subservient to the Bill. Thus I have suggested that the higher judiciary should not be covered under Lokpal,” Media agencies

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