This article refers to the whistleblowers bill passed in February 2014 in India. It discusses the need for safety and security of whistleblowers in India, where over 12 have been assassinated and 40 assaulted for revealing corruption. The Corruption Matters Advocate Mr. Kislay Pandey believes that properly implementing this bill would help protect whistleblowers and enable them to aggressively tackle corruption.

1. Kislay Pandey-What Corruption Matters Advocate says about
Whistleblowers bill?
The safety and profound security for whistle-blowers is very crucial in the
country like India where corruption and wrong business practices are
common and becoming a trend in India. According to an October 2011
article by Bloomberg, from 2010 to present, more than 12 whistle-blowers
were assassinated due to their roles in revealing scams and crimes by
political leaders, local government servants or businessmen and more
than 40 were assaulted after filing the application. People who did not
know how effective RTI (Right to Information Act) is, now knows its
influences and nowadays even slum-dwellers are filing RTI applications to
know about the water supplies and distribution systems for food,
kerosene and cooking oil.
The RTI act has enabledbureaucratic transparency by putting government
records open and available to all by just filing an application. It is
considered as one of the most revolutionary act of the last decades and
helped in revealing some of the most influential scams across the India.

2. Kislay Pandey-What Corruption Matters Advocate says about
Whistleblowers bill?
According to a very well-known and talented Corruption Matters Advocate
Mr. Kislay Pandey Supreme Court of India, Following enormous
demonstrations from the public and international organisations, the
courts made it clear that the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is
sanctioned to defend whistleblowers and to take actions on their
complaints. The CVC can now take action against anybody who discloses
names of whistleblowers, and witnesses and can request police assistance
to investigate complaints.”
In August 2010, the Public Interest Disclosure and Protection to Persons
Making the Disclosure Bill (commonly known as the Whistleblowers' Bill)
was introduced in the Indian parliament that enables CVC more power to
act against people who reveal the names of whistleblowers in the public.
On December 2011, the bill was passed by the Lower house and passed in
the Upper house in February 2014; however, the bill has not come into
implementation till now.

3. Kislay Pandey-What Corruption Matters Advocate says about
Whistleblowers bill?
The safety and profound security for whistle-blowers is very crucial in the country
like India where corruption and wrong business practices are common and
becoming a trend in India. According to an October 2011 article by Bloomberg,
from 2010 to present, more than 12 whistle-blowers were assassinated due to
their roles in revealing scams and crimes by political leaders, local government
servants or businessmen and more than 40 were assaulted after filing the
application. People who did not know how effective RTI (Right to Information
Act) is, now knows its influences and nowadays even slum-dwellers are filing RTI
applications to know about the water supplies and distribution systems for food,
kerosene and cooking oil.
The RTI act has enabledbureaucratic transparency by putting government records
open and available to all by just filing an application. It is considered as one of the
most revolutionary act of the last decades and helped in revealing some of the
most influential scams across the India.
Satyadev Dubey, Amit Jethva, Shanmughan Manjunath and Shehla Masood are
some of the most popular whistleblowers who were killed due to lack of security
and safety.

4. Kislay Pandey-What Corruption Matters Advocate says about
Whistleblowers bill?
Out of 12 whistleblowers killed by various political groups or
business lobbies, eight were living in the remote villages of India
and not a single whistleblower belonged to top ten metros of
India. In an interview of 40 assaulted whistleblowers by
Bloomberg, many of them told that they constantly live with the
fear of the death and get so many threatening calls from
politicians and local goons, but they simply don’t care about it.
Mr. Subramanyam Swami, a leading political leader of Bhartiya
Janta Party and one of the most prominent whistleblower said in
an interview that they get at least one threating call every day.
Mr. Pandey also said that protecting whistleblowers will in turn,
help nation only as they are doing some exceptional work to
clean our broken system. If whistleblowers bill will be
implemented in an effective manner, it will help them to work
more aggressively and in an operational manner.

5. Kislay Pandey-What Corruption Matters Advocate says about
Whistleblowers bill?
This article refers to the whistleblowers bill passed
in the February 2014. Furthermore it depicts the
need of safety and security of whistleblowers in
India and according to Corruption Matters
Advocate Mr. Kislay Pandey, if implemented
properly; this bill will help whistleblowers in an
outstanding way.