As soon as the bill is out up for "public opinion",its acceptance SHOULD MIRROR AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE A REFERENDUM.To that end,a questionnaire should be evolved for each section of the Act,wherein wherever "yes/no" answers are possible,they should be collated.A multiple-choice type questionaire could also be evolved for everything from "appointment of lokpal" to " selection of panel to choose lokpal" with various options being given under a),b).c),d).the results of which can be collated to get a clear picture of what the JAN SADHARAN feel.Else,given that "civil society" alone has been involved in the drafting of the Bill,we might as well call it a "JANHIT LOKPAL" BILL and not a "Jan Lokpal" bill.This is a POWERFUL PUBLIC appointment and has come after a LONG TIME in our country so badly riddled by CORRUPTION-public participation is de rigueur.
Warm regards
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From: Vivek sundara
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 6:21 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Rahul Banerjee on Lokpal.
From: Vivek sundara <viveksundara@gmail.com>
Date: 9 April 2011
Subject: Rahul Banerjee on Lokpal.
Whenever a groundswell of mass protest is created against a largely undemocratic
state it is to be welcomed regardless of minor glitches. After even if a very
good Lokpal Act which is long overdue is enacted the chances of its being
implemented well are very low if one goes by the implementation record of other
such progressive laws that have been enacted in recent times like the PESA, RTI,
NREGA and the FRA. Not to mention such longstanding statutes as land reform acts
and labour laws. One of the most glaring instances of ineffectiveness of
legislation has just been brought to the fore with the revelation of the 2011
census that the under 6 years girl to boy ratio has gone down further since
2001. After a similar decline over the previous decade there was a great hue and
cry and it was said that the Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and
Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994 would be more strictly implemented. However, we
now have the phenomenon of mobile vans doing the rounds of the rural areas
merrily diagnosing the sex of the embryo and the results are there for all to
see.
The important thing is that there has to be constant grassroots mobilisation to
put pressure on a state apparatus that is inefficient, corrupt and oppressive to
deliver and it does not matter whether some of the finer points of the demands
made are problematical. Consequently it is unseemly carping on the part of the
MKSS to criticise Hazare when he has succeeded in generating so much mass
involvement. In fact Hazare should be criticised on a more important point and
that is his silence regarding the development model being practised worldwide
which is basically spawning this corruption. The most corrupt people are the
corporate honchos who draw huge salaries for earning profits for their companies
by various underhand means. Lokpal Act or no as long as resources remain
concentrated in the hands of the corporates they will always find ways to
subvert democracy.
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