What is Lokpal bill?
The Lokpal will be a three-member body with a chairperson who is or was a chief justice or Supreme Court judge, and two members who are or have been high courts judges or chief justices.
Implementation of the Lokpal bill will hopefully reduce corruption in India.
The basic idea of the Lokpal is borrowed from the office of the ombudsman in other countries.
It provides for filing complaints of corruption against the prime minister , other ministers and members of parliament with the ombudsman.
Anyone, except for a public servant , can file a complaint and the Lokpal has to complete the inquiry within six months.
For 42 years, governments have tried to put in place the law.
The bill was for the first time presented during the fourth Lok Sabha in 1968, and was passed there in 1969. However, the Lok Sabha was dissolved , resulting in the first death of the bill.
It was revived in 1971, 1977, 1985, 1989, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2005 and 2008.
In September 2004, prime minister Manmohan Singh said the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government would lose no time in enacting the bill. But strong lobbies blocked it.
The Lokpal Bill, 2010, awaits an okay from a select committee.
Former chief justice of the Delhi high court and rights activist Rajinder Sachar feels the bill is "shamefully toothless and meant to give a false reassurance to the people that the government is serious in its fight against corruption" .
But former chief justice of India M N Venkatachelliah feels the PM must be out of its purview.
We the people of India are the Government. We are the ruling party, We are the opposition. Our Government is of the people, by the people & for the people. It's just people don't wanna be a part of it. It's easy to get up one day and start shouting "I support Anna" but very few of us really wants to improve the system. We bribe cops , We throw trash on streets, We Indians have got this inherent quality of skipping the system and getting things done in a corrupt manner(Jugad). We don't vote, and if we do, we don't choose the right person. If there isn't a right person very few wants to be one.
Do you think passing the Lokpal bill will vanish the problem of corruption?
Nilekani, one of the founders of Infosys, said "I have spent 35 years working on how to make large systems work. You have to fundamentally analyse and improve system themselves. This lokpal bill is just one of the many things that we need to do. I don't think that it is the only thing we should be doing. I fully endorse the fact that they want to address the problem of corruption but I think they should look at it in a much more strategic and holistic manner and not just by passing a law. This is absolutely Uni-dimensional."
The Lokpal will be a three-member body with a chairperson who is or was a chief justice or Supreme Court judge, and two members who are or have been high courts judges or chief justices.
Implementation of the Lokpal bill will hopefully reduce corruption in India.
The basic idea of the Lokpal is borrowed from the office of the ombudsman in other countries.
It provides for filing complaints of corruption against the prime minister , other ministers and members of parliament with the ombudsman.
Anyone, except for a public servant , can file a complaint and the Lokpal has to complete the inquiry within six months.
For 42 years, governments have tried to put in place the law.
The bill was for the first time presented during the fourth Lok Sabha in 1968, and was passed there in 1969. However, the Lok Sabha was dissolved , resulting in the first death of the bill.
It was revived in 1971, 1977, 1985, 1989, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2005 and 2008.
In September 2004, prime minister Manmohan Singh said the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government would lose no time in enacting the bill. But strong lobbies blocked it.
The Lokpal Bill, 2010, awaits an okay from a select committee.
Former chief justice of the Delhi high court and rights activist Rajinder Sachar feels the bill is "shamefully toothless and meant to give a false reassurance to the people that the government is serious in its fight against corruption" .
But former chief justice of India M N Venkatachelliah feels the PM must be out of its purview.
We the people of India are the Government. We are the ruling party, We are the opposition. Our Government is of the people, by the people & for the people. It's just people don't wanna be a part of it. It's easy to get up one day and start shouting "I support Anna" but very few of us really wants to improve the system. We bribe cops , We throw trash on streets, We Indians have got this inherent quality of skipping the system and getting things done in a corrupt manner(Jugad). We don't vote, and if we do, we don't choose the right person. If there isn't a right person very few wants to be one.
Do you think passing the Lokpal bill will vanish the problem of corruption?
Nilekani, one of the founders of Infosys, said "I have spent 35 years working on how to make large systems work. You have to fundamentally analyse and improve system themselves. This lokpal bill is just one of the many things that we need to do. I don't think that it is the only thing we should be doing. I fully endorse the fact that they want to address the problem of corruption but I think they should look at it in a much more strategic and holistic manner and not just by passing a law. This is absolutely Uni-dimensional."
