Students, teachers, and families and of course volunteers. Since January this year the movement has gained unexpected momentum. As we moved forward we kept organizing it better. Through social media we were able to increase the spread of the movement.
As the footprints increased, we selected coordinators from among the fans and reached out to many small towns and cities. While volunteers are mainly the youth, the working class has come out for candle light marches and rallies. R B S Tomar, a manager in a company has taken leave for a week. I come here in the morning and leave by late night. My aim is to fight corruption. If we have pay bribe for making a passport or a new electric connection, then what is the use of having a government?
The officials take advantage of our situation and it is our time now to make these officials realise that it will not work anymore. Sociologists believe that the whole movement is born as elected representatives have failed the people. This sentiment is all-pervasive. When the Lokpal Bill is passed, I will distribute free fresh juice to all my customers that day. So what is the Jan Lokpal Bill? The bill, also known as the citizens' ombudsman bill, is a proposed anti-corruption law in India and has been pending for more than forty years.
The basic idea of the Lokpal comes from the office of the ombudsman in other countries. People have confidence that this is the instrument to fight corruption and are rallying behind the social activist Anna Hazare to get the law passed.
It addresses the problem of a common citizen, and since we all can see a solution in this we all come here in our individual capacity. There is no leader who is leading the crowds, they are coming on their own.
I am leading her pointing to her friend and she is leading someone else. I see India changing after this. The ground swell is not just made of adults but children are adding to the crowds too. He forced his father to bring him to Delhi. Corruption is a virus that is griping India and it has to be treated. A supporter of India's anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare holds a placard at the site of his hunger strike in New Delhi, India, Saturday, August 20, Delhi being the centre of the movement is attracting people from neighbouring states as well.
It is due to corruption, so we have to fight against it. This bill can change the country so we are here to support this bill and this movement. We decided that instead of watching it on TV again why not come here for the weekend. We want to fight against corruption. And many who those who have not come to Delhi are keeping the the spirit of the movement alive in smaller towns and cities. In Delhi various institutions are showing solidarity with the cause in their own campuses.
Apollo hospital, one of the leading multi specialty hospital had all their doctors marching around the hospital with a Gandhi cap and a flag in their hands.
The sales of the Gandhi topi has increased and many vendors are found selling these caps, t-shirts, flags and batches on the streets. So will this movement reach any logical end? Miranda Simons, from the advertising industry has faith. Some people after experiencing this difference, have decided to connect with the crusade. Nitesh Singh, a naval officer, applied for his driving license within 45 minutes.
Never could you get any government document made without the agents and the go-betweens asking for money. Thanks to this movement, I was able to get my job done without any mediator and without shelling out any extra buck.
Social observers, media critics, political analysts are all scrutinising this phenomenon. Some are skeptical while some are surprised by the enormity of it. If this movement is not taken to its logical end it will be a tragedy for this country.
After all people are demanding a large scale fundamental systemic change. But even in this historical moment the elected representatives and their parties are indulging in blame games. No one knows the truth of the political parties be, but the truth being witnessed in India at this time cannot be ignored.
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Aug 20, pm. Recommend 0. We the people of the remotest village of Assam face corruption in every step of our life and we do know what corruption is. While supporting Anna Hazare's movement wholeheartedly I would like to add that Annaji and his team should also take this opportunity to do away with corruption from general public who are supporting him because it is we who are more corrupt and encourage it in every walks of our life.
Today with Annaji's vission let us introspect ourselves "Do I encourage corruption? Protesting against corruption is great. However, an unelected individual demading his bill be passed circumventing the elected parliament and the constitution without proper process and debate is wrong.
This man is no hero or atleast he's not very sensible; his method of threatening suicide and making people think a miraculous quick-fix is possible is setting a terrible example.
Kapil Sibbal do fast for some days? We need an "Anna" in the corporate world which is rife with corruption across the board and across the globe! The elite were with him. Hazare is not a part of the contemporary elite. Forget setting the agenda, he was probably used as an employee by a section of the middle class to bring Narendra Modi to power. His true loyal base is the impoverished small farmer.
I do believe though that Hazare does not contest elections for the same reasons as Gandhi—pride presented as disdain for electoral politics. But then the only way to sustain a political movement in India is by accepting that it is political. Never miss a story! Stay connected and informed with Mint.
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Premium Premium Aha! A pattern! And some mathematics! Premium Premium Message for Kabul. Diarrhea-related diseases were the norm and the infant mortality rate was high. A lack of irrigation meant that, in this drought-prone region, crops often failed.
Primary schools were poor and the region had no high school. Unemployment was high and alcoholism pervasive. Thakaram Raut, a year old former headmaster, remembered, "People prepared their own liquor and did not know when to stop. They drank too much -- they behaved like beasts.
Hazare has a stubborn streak. He didn't set out to merely improve Ralegan Siddhi -- he planned to make it a model village. And he largely succeeded, by the accounts not just of villagers but also reports for international development agencies and the citations from the dozens of awards he has collected. A study for the Food and Agriculture Organization said that the "extremely degraded" community Hazare encountered in was, two decades later, "unrecognizable.
Hazare's first focus was close to home: using his army savings for repairs to the Hindu temple, enlisting local youth to help with the work, and then persuading them to join him in a campaign to rid the town of alcohol. Dagdu Mapari, now a clerk in the local secondary school and president of the cooperative bank board, was one of the recruits.
In the early days, he recalled, chronic drinkers were given three warnings; on the fourth, they were tied to the light pole outside the temple and beaten. The beatings stopped 15 years ago, villagers say, but the pole still stands as an admonishment. The village, they say, has also stayed dry. Asked if this approach might be considered excessive, Mapari answered, "Alcoholism leads to poverty.
The bank he now chairs provides low-interest loans to farmers; any interest collected goes to support the development of the village. What proved most transformative for Ralegan Siddhi and the surrounding countryside, however, was Hazare's leadership in a watershed restoration project that made the arid hillsides bloom. He persuaded his neighbors to work together, building 31 small dams of cement or soil called bunds that eventually raised the groundwater level from an average depth of feet to less than Hazare's critics note that Ralegan Siddhi hasn't had an election for its local council in over 25 years.
His defenders say this is part of his genius, that he has relied instead on Gram Sabha village assembly meetings of all adult residents in which decisions are made by consensus. The operational arm of the assembly, the panchyat or village council, is composed of nine members -- all of them women, at Hazare's urging, on the theory that this would promote their active role in village life. In the early s, Maharashtra gave Anna control over funds for replicating his model in villages across the state.
In recent years, he has more often tangled with the state, most notably through a series of hunger fasts and public protests aimed at spurring enactment of a Right to Information law.
He won that battle in with a state law that became a model for national legislation a few years later. This law helped expose government corruption in ways that set the stage for this year's battle. The consensus approach in Ralegan Siddhi accounts for the success of policies, largely self-enforced, that range from a ban on tree-felling and free-range grazing to the alcohol ban and the commitment to birth control and smaller families.
Nearly every house in the region now has both a water tap and a toilet -- in a country where four in 10 still practice open defecation.
The wastewater flows not to the road, but into soak-pits.
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