Deals with- Corruption and Anna's fight against it. Jan Lokpal Bill, understanding it, Public support etc.

1. Rishabh Rastogi
rishabhrastogi@live.com

2. What is Corruption?
• It is not easy to define
corruption. But in a narrow
sense, corruption is mostly
concerned with bribery and it
takes several forms.
• Corruption is a global
phenomenon and it is
omnipresent.
• Corruption has progressively
increased and is now rampant
in our society.

3. Causes Of Corruption:
• Corruption is caused as well as increased because of the change
in the value system and ethical qualities of men who administer.
The old ideals of morality, service and honesty are regarded as
an achromatic.
• In a highly inflationary economy, low salaries of government
officials compel them to resort to the road of corruption.
Graduates from IIMs with no experience draw a far handsome
salary than what government secretaries draw.
• Election time is a time when corruption is at its peak level. Big
industrialist fund politicians to meet high cost of election and
ultimately to seek personal favor. Bribery to politicians buys
influence, and bribery by politicians buys votes. In order to get
elected, politicians bribe poor illiterate people, who are slogging
for two times meal.

4. Why India’s voice started rising against ‘Corruption’?
• 2G spectrum scam resulting into a loss to the exchequer and illegal
manipulation of the spectrum allocation process
• Wikileaks of the US embassy secret cables
• 2010 fake housing loan scam
• Adarsh Housing Society (Mumbai) Scam
• 2010 Commonwealth Games Corruption Controversy

5. Anna Hazare’s Protest for Jan Lokpal Bill
• On 5 April 2011, Anna Hazare initiated a movement by beginning fast unto
death at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi
• Movement gained momentum with support of India’s youth
• Protests erupted in Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and many
other places

6. Understanding Jan Lokpal Bill
• In India, the Jan Lokpal Bill is a draft anti-corruption bill that would create
an independent body
• It would have the power to prosecute bureaucrats
• The bill was drafted by former IPS officer, Kiran Bedi, Shanti Bhushan,
Justice N. Santosh Hedge, Advocate Prashant Bhushan and former chief
election commisioner J.M. Lyngdoh
• The first Lokpal Bill was passed in 1969 but failed to get through Rajya
Sabha for coming 42 years

7. Draft Lokpal Bill 2010
Draft Lokpal Bill 2010 was created under the
ruling Congress Party which swayed a way
apart from the Jan Lokpal Bill.

9. Favorable Public Opinion
“Hazzare represents millions of people in this country whose
patience with the current corrupt regime is reaching its limit”,
A. Seshan, via e-mail
“It is time politicians responded to Anna Hazare's demands”,
Shankar
“Every Indian should come out and support the cause for which
Anna Hazare risks death. If we do not rise now to face the
moment of truth, we never will”, Anurag

10. Unfavorable Public Opinion
“The movement behind the Jan Lokpal Bill is crossing the lines of
reasonableness. It is premised on an institutional imagination
that is at best naïve”, Pratap Mehta, political analyst
“The seeds of authoritarianism”, Neera Chandhoke, Indian
Express Group
“The Jan Lokpal Bill: Good intentions and the road to hell”, Amba
Salelkar, Practicing Lawyer

11. Features of Proposed Bill
• A central government anti-corruption institution called "Lokpal", supported by
state institutions called "Lokayukta" will be set up
• Lokpal will be completely independent of the government
• Members will be appointed through a transparent and participatory process
• Discussions and video recordings shall be made public
• A list of cases disposed with brief details will be published on the website
• Investigations in each case will have to be completed in one year
• Any loss caused by a corrupt person to the government will be recovered at the
time of conviction

12. • Lokpal will impose financial penalty on guilty officers if any citizen’s work
is not accomplished within a prescribed time period
• Any complaint against any officer of Lokpal shall be investigated and if
found to be substantive, will result in his dismissal within two months
• The existing anti-corruption agencies (CVC, departmental vigilance and
the anti-corruption branch of CBI) will be merged into Lokpal
• The agency will also provide protection to whistleblowers who alert about
potential corruption cases

13. Keeping the features of proposed Jan Lokpal Bill in mind, can we really
“ensure” the continuation of anti-corruption machinery?
Can we “ensure” honest officials for keeping the committee clean and
genuinely helping common man?
What is India’s future with the Jan Lokpal
Bill?

14. Thank You!
A single person cannot
fight against a
widespread disease
like CORRUPTION,
which is spread even
at the bureaucratic
level.
So if you are willing to
fight raise your voice,
and lets join our hands
against corruption.