Lokpal bill

Lokpal Bill and ANNA Hazare

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What is Jan Lokpal bill
Key Features
Difference Between Govt. Lokpal bill and Jan Lokpal Bill

Jan Lokpal bill
The Jan Lokpal Bill (Citizen's ombudsman Bill) is a draft anti-corruption bill drawn up by prominent civil society activists seeking the appointment of a Jan Lokpal, an independent body that would investigate corruption cases, complete the investigation within a year and envisages trial in the case getting over in the next one year
Anna hazare: a social activist: a campaign for Jan lokpal bill

Key features
1. establish a central government anti-corruption institution called Lokpal.
2. supervised by the Cabinet Secretary and the Election Commission.
3. Members will be appointed by judges, Indian Administrative Service officers with a clean record, private citizens and constitutional authorities.
4. A selection committee will invite shortlisted candidates for interviews, videorecordings of which will thereafter be made public
5. the Lokayukta will publish a list of cases dealt with, brief details of each, their outcome and any action taken or proposed
6. Losses caused to the government by a corrupt individual will be recovered at the time of conviction
7. The existing anti-corruption agencies (CVC, departmental vigilance and the anti-corruption branch of the CBI) will be merged into Lokpal which will have complete power and authority to independently investigate and prosecute any officer, judge or politician.

Jan lokpal bill Vs. Govt. Lokpal Bill

Campaign Against corruption By Anna
In 2011, Hazare initiated a Satyagraha movement for passing a stronger anti-corruption Lokpal (ombudsman) bill in the Indian Parliament as conceived in the Jan Lokpal Bill (People's Ombudsman Bill). The Jan Lokpal Bill was drafted earlier by N. SantoshHegde, former justice of the Supreme Court of India and Lokayukta of Karnataka, Prashant Bhushan, a senior lawyer in the Supreme Court and Arvind Kejriwal, a social activist along with members of the India Against Corruption movement.

Campaign Against corruption By Anna
Today, Anna Hazare is the face of India's fight against corruption. He has taken that fight to the corridors of power and challenged the government at the highest level. People, the common man and well-known personalities alike, are supporting him in the hundreds swelling to the thousands.For Anna Hazare, it is another battle. And he has fought quite a few, Including some as a soldier for 15 years in Indian Army. He enlisted after the 1962 Indo-China war when the government exhorted young men to join the Army.

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