Jan Lokpal Bill will improve existing anti-corruption systems.

Existing System No politician or senior officer ever goes to jail despite huge evidence because Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) and CBI
directly come under the government. Before starting investigation or initiating prosecution in any case, they have to take permission from the same bosses, against whom the case has to be investigated.

System Proposed by civil society

Lokpal at centre and Lokayukta at state level will be independent bodies. ACB and CBI will be merged into these bodies. They will have power to initiate investigations and prosecution against any officer or politician without needing anyones permission. Investigation should be completed within 1 year and trial to get over in next 1 year. Within two years, the corrupt should go to

jail. No corrupt officer is dismissed from the jobbecause

Central Vigilance Commission, which is supposed to dismiss corrupt officers, is only an advisory body. Whenever it advises government to dismiss any senior corrupt officer, its advice is never implemented. Lokpal and Lokayukta will have complete powers to order dismissal of a corrupt officer. CVC and all departmental vigilance will be merged into Lokpal and state vigilance will be merged into Lokayukta.

No action is taken against corrupt judgesbecause

permission is required from the Chief Justice of India to even register an FIR against corrupt judges.

Lokpal & Lokayukta shall have powers to investigate prosecute any judge without needing anyones permission. Lokpal & Lokayukta will have to enquire

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Nowhere to go - People expose corruption but no action is taken

on their complaints.

into and hear every

complaint. All investigations in Lokpal & Lokayukta shall be transparent. After completion of investigation, all case records
shall be open to public. Complaint against any staff of Lokpal & Lokayukta shall be enquired and punishment announced within two months.

There is so much corruption within CBI and vigilance departments. Their functioning is so secret that it encourages
corruption within these agencies.

Weak and corrupt people are appointed as heads of anticorruption agencies.

Politicians will have absolutely no say in selections of

Chairperson and members of Lokpal & Lokayukta. Selections will take place through a transparent and public participatory process. Lokpal & Lokayukta will get public grievances resolved in time bound manner, impose a penalty of Rs 250 per day of delay to be deducted from the salary of guilty officer and award that amount as compensation to the aggrieved citizen.

Citizens face harassment in government offices. Sometimes

they are forced to pay bribes. One can only complaint to senior officers. No action is taken on complaints because senior officers also get their cut.

Nothing in law to recover ill gotten wealth. A corrupt

person can come out of jail and enjoy that money.

Loss caused to the government due to corruptionwill be recovered from all accused. Enhanced punishment - The punishment would be minimum 5
years and maximum of life imprisonment.

Small

punishment for corruption- Punishment corruption is minimum 6 months and maximum 7 years.

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Advantage of Lokpal Bill

1. Major advantage of this bill is all about solving the No.1 problem of India is CORRUPTION. 2. Who will be the decision makers this time, nonpoliticians, non-bureaucrats, not a police officer. 3. This bill is proposed to the government again and again in last 50 years so this holds the believe of generations and we all think this can change the system.

4. The decision will be faster than what we have right now, the proposed decision will be 1 year and punishment will be executed in 2 years. 5. People will not have to go through the grueling system to complain the crime.

Major Disadvantages of Lokpal Bill

This is not a mature bill, still lot many open issues, I will write them all here before I write about the possible fix for it. I could be an ignorant about the complete bill but I tried to read it from various places and I didnt notice anyone describing these issues. 1. Huge burden on government to run this, it needs huge money to manage the head counts. 2. I dont understand why it needs 1 year for decision and another 1 year for the punishment. 3. How someone can guarantee there will be No minister or bureaucrat influence on their investigations. 4. How can it be assured that Lokpal members are not corrupted? Dont we have corrupted judges, citizens and constitutional authorities, who says only the politicians are corrupted? I believe we are responsible for the corrupted system and we should be the one to fix it, government will have to support us as we support the government. Here are my thoughts.

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How can we reduce the monetary burden on government and solve the problem? We dont need to hire the 100% decision makers, we can hire only administrative people to manage the system and the decision makers will be the regular citizens. We all solve some issues on daily basis and we dont need to be qualified to solve them. There are more than 70% issues in India that dont need be investigated at all. Lets say I applied for a passport renewal and the department lost it, there are 3-4 people responsible for handling the passport and everyone should be punished equally. Let them all pay Rs 10,000 each and find out who the real culprit internally. This way I get some compensation for losing the passport and the office work as a group rather than an individual. It is a common problem in India that the staffs think them to be individual than a group and they make you run from one to other for a small task. To make these kind of simple decisions we dont need fulltime and highly qualified people. Who will be member for this case will be auto selected and everyone will be paid something to show up at the decided place. People who are not going to show up will end up in paying huge amount so that it becomes everyones responsibility to participate, there can be some excuses for emergency reasons. We dont need 1 year to solve a case now, major part of the complains can be solved in 3 months and punished in 2-6 months if we make everyone to come and participate. Now the government will have at least 60 billion staff to handle the cases. People participating in the cases will be informed at the site on the details so there is no upfront information available or relation build before the D day. There cant be any influence as no one gets time, influence will come in when we give time to the case and people on the case are known. How can a Lokpal member be corrupted now? Person doesnt know anything, goes to solve a problem and takes a decision on the spot. For the case that needs to be investigated properly needs some fulltime employees as the decision makers. Give an opportunity to people above the age of 50 to retire from their regular job and join the department. They have 50 years of track record to prove if they are uncorrupted or not, this head count can be 50%. Other 50% can be fresh candidates from various ages. Every case should involve audience, if a person is not satisfied with the decision then he can take an audience poll for reapply. If audience support him to file again then he is not charged to re-file else he is going to pay good amount for reconsideration. Failing 3 times will lock him to the punishment and cant apply for reconsideration to any of his cases for next 5 years.

There can be many things added to this bill to make it incorruptible. If we are just trying to shift from one corrupt system to another then there is no point in passing this. Making this bill a best one is the job of the government and we all have to participate and make it work from approval to execution. Do you agree with me, let me know here, I am open to any kind debate.