Lok Pal, Anna Hazare and the corrupt--- why not every citizen be a Lok Pal?
If a Lok Pal has to administer the Act then it will have all the ills associated with CBI and CVC.
The problem is we are still not able to get over the British colonial mind sets. Democracy will become healthier only if we are able to eliminate the dark corners and secretive doors blocking the light to be shed and operatives working behind thick and thin veils.
So long as we refuse to work openly on web based exposure in real time, the public administration and decision making steps, in public domain, visible to all, we have no hope.
When we remove the file covers protecting the bureaucrats, then every citizen becomes Lok Pal. Centralising the power in an individual is a serious mistake. One Lok Pal or a commission of Lok Pals are easily compromised. They will act as hindrance in administration of the Act.
What is the problem in making public administration free from secrecy and open and visible for every citizen? What is there to hide from public view?
Surprisingly the movement has failed to insist on this simple first step, and the Government must have heaved a sigh of relief.
The deterrence of each and every decision process being openly visible to all citizens, is so powerful, that we will not need any further Act.
Like CVC /CBI are used to protect the guilty, the Lok pal will also be reduced to another institutional protection for the corrupt. The principle of many a guilty can escape but not one single innocent shall be punished under the law, will be cynically made use of by the Government to protect their favourite corrupt.
There should be a massive demand first to open up public administration process to public with modern web based technology to cover each and every financial decision and policy initiative.
Do we have the courage to do so, is the moot point.
The problem is we are still not able to get over the British colonial mind sets. Democracy will become healthier only if we are able to eliminate the dark corners and secretive doors blocking the light to be shed and operatives working behind thick and thin veils.
So long as we refuse to work openly on web based exposure in real time, the public administration and decision making steps, in public domain, visible to all, we have no hope.
When we remove the file covers protecting the bureaucrats, then every citizen becomes Lok Pal. Centralising the power in an individual is a serious mistake. One Lok Pal or a commission of Lok Pals are easily compromised. They will act as hindrance in administration of the Act.
What is the problem in making public administration free from secrecy and open and visible for every citizen? What is there to hide from public view?
Surprisingly the movement has failed to insist on this simple first step, and the Government must have heaved a sigh of relief.
The deterrence of each and every decision process being openly visible to all citizens, is so powerful, that we will not need any further Act.
Like CVC /CBI are used to protect the guilty, the Lok pal will also be reduced to another institutional protection for the corrupt. The principle of many a guilty can escape but not one single innocent shall be punished under the law, will be cynically made use of by the Government to protect their favourite corrupt.
There should be a massive demand first to open up public administration process to public with modern web based technology to cover each and every financial decision and policy initiative.
Do we have the courage to do so, is the moot point.
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