Just some stry thoughts. In this country we have Courts which gives us THE RULE OF LAW. Which means that we get law (passed and amended from time to time. including the one point rule under which the government has to give permission if an officer or a politician has committed a crime and you want him to be prosecurted). But we are not talking of justice. You get the law and not necessarily justice. In usa, they have a Justice department and we have the law department. And we all know that if we have a problem in which we want JUSTICE, you need money and a lawyer. The pre-requisite is that you have money. Hence in this land only the purse is the passport for justice. Or there should be a looney like Patkar fighting for the Narmada evacuees who will go on fighting with the windmill like Don Quixote. I am not well versed with the law pertaining to the fundamental rights of the citizen. My understanding is that EQUALITY
--- On Wed, 31/12/08, Pranav <[email protected]> wrote: From: Pranav <[email protected]> Subject: CAF2577 Re: Karmayog's 10 Action Steps for government and civil society To: "Citizens' Action Forum" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, 31 December, 2008, 4:45 PM BTW, Lokayukta (LA) has two major problems. 1) He can't act on his own (suo motu). 2) Second, he needs permission to prosecute babus, which in most cases is not granted. Towards #2, some of us are about to file an RTI with LA office asking for status and details of their recent request for permissions to prosecute some exposed babus. If we do this on a regular basis (once a month), regular media should pick this up and that in turn could help spread awareness. Newspapers only carry story of LA raids, but not the followups, I wonder why. Anyone wants to join, or lead this RTI project, let me know, or just post on Praja. We plan to mail the RTI application on 7/8th Jan. -Pranav (praja.in) On Dec 31, 12:45 pm, TANIAPPA VIDYADHAR <[email protected]> wrote: > I do walk the talk in my own way and whatever I do I confine to my area. For instance there was a shabby work done by a contractor in our area and we took up for punishing him . Such acts will reduce corruption . Contractor thought that having bribed Engineers, Politicians he can take us for a ride.. If all of us are vigilent in our own area, corruption can be reduced substantially. Further I got justice in a property dispute without paying any bribe whereas an youngster having no faith in our system paid to solve his problem similar to mine. I spread such acts, as word of mouth helps. I do not misunderstand when u say that no one joins the walk but talk. Corruption is a cancer that can be cured slowly with proper treatment but V need many doctors. At the same time corruption is increasing due to youngsters having surplus money in cities and want the things to happen yesterday, not even today ( an american saying ) and for this in > India they are prepared to throw any amount . As usual black money flows in to the hands of corrupt and the parallel economy is booming. > > Hence I am with u but with a limited role due to my philosophy" clean up your home and the neighbourhood first." > T.Vidyadhar . > Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Citizens' Action Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/citizens-action-forum?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
