Diluted ombudsman - Anna to fast from Aug 16

Nksagar-Sagar Media Inc: New Delhi, Jun 22 A general belief that corruption, social stratification, money laundering, black money, rape and murder, crime violence, coercive acts,terrorism, social unrest, border disorder, legal and illegal loot by corrupt people at high places give rise to rampant corruption in India.Social movement of Anna within constitution to bring Lokpal bill has been the centre of all media to gauge the ongoing process of creating authority of Ombudsman. In Press release from the Team Anna Lak Pal bill will have jurisdiction over 65000 Central government Group A employees,4.5Lakh registered NGO's and to many Lakh to unregistered NGO's of both central and state this bill will not be applicable to the companies.With minimal deliberations and only exchange of points at the nine meetings in two months produced enormous divergent vision and vie on the subject.

Government and civil society exercise to work out an agreed draft of the Lokpal Bill has diverged into two paths thus total collapse of the nine meeting in which both parties had little deliberations,government members asked for the ideation of civil society.In event of failure of the process of two sides reaching divergent goal Government to retain the supremacy of the authority.Team Anna addressing press conference at Press club of India today at 4.30 PM gave an interesting features in the content of the draft submitted by the government is that Minimum punishment against a corrupt person is six months and minimum punishment against fake complainants is two years.With Team Anna desire to be part of drafting a bill has been completed and the process of government to draft the bill has initiated.
The Government version has following the highlights
1. Prime Minister is not under the purview of the Lokpal
2.No Cheif Minister will be under the purview of the Lokpal, and twenty three states CMs has opposed the draft.
3.No state lokayukta will be part of Lokpal hence there is no state (lower) level authority of Lokpal. If there is any corruption at district level also, it has to be complained to the Lokpal in Delhi.
4. Seven of the Ten member Lokpal section committee will be politicians (PM, Speakers of both the houses, Opposition leaders of both houses, etc.
5. Government has the power to appeal in Supreme court, to remove the Lokpal Chairperson. An ordinary citizen cannot complain against Lokpal.

PTI reports Anna Hazare announced that he will go ahead with his fast from August 16 to "teach the government a lesson". After nine meetings spread over two months, the joint drafting committee of the two sides concluded its deliberations on a note of disagreement with the government asserting that it could not allow creation of a parallel structure which would be "answerable to nobody".The government draft ruled out scrutiny of Prime Minister, higher judiciary and the conduct of MPs in Parliament by the Lokpal.

The government draft proposes several critical powers conferring quasi-judicial status to Lokpal besides powers to attach assets, independent prosecution and investigation machinery with full police powers under the proposed ombudsman.