---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kavita Krishnan <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:55 AM Subject: Lokpal Bill alone cannot solve corruption, change the policies of privatisation that create ground for corruption - Prashant Bhushan To:
"One must not, however, be under any illusion that the Lokpal law by itself would solve the problem of corruption. Unless we tackle and change the policies (of liberalisation and privatisation) that create enormous incentives for corruption and monster corporations that become too powerful for any institution to control, the fight will be incomplete." - Prashant Bhushan, http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/15/stories/2011041556271000.htm Let's not leave the fight incomplete! Let's take the fight against corruption to its logical conclusion! Let's continue the movement for an effective, accountable and transparent Lokpal - while taking on the policies of liberalisation and privatisation that are creating a fertile ground for corruption and corporate plunder! More from Prashant Bhushan's article - Under the garb of liberalisation and privatisation, India has adopted policies by which natural resources and public assets (mineral resources, oil and gas, land, spectrum, and so on) have been allowed to be privatised without transparency or a process of public auctioning.... ...The Karnataka Lokayukta, Justice Santosh Hegde, has pointed out in a report on mining in Karnataka that the profit margins in such ventures are often more than 90 per cent. This leaves huge scope for bribe-giving and creates incentives for corruption. The same thing happened when A. Raja gave away spectrum without a public auction to companies at less than 10 per cent of its market price. Private monopolies in water and electricity distribution, airport development and so on have been allowed to be created, where huge and unconscionable levels of profit can be made by corrupting the regulator and allowing private monopolies to charge predatory prices. Apart from creating huge incentives for corruption, such policies have resulted in the involuntary displacement of lakhs of the poorest people.. ... Most ominously, such deals have resulted in the creation of monster corporations that are so powerful and influential that they have come to influence and virtually control all institutions of power — as we see from the Radia tapes.... ..an independent, credible and empowered Lokpal is a necessary, though not a sufficient, condition to effectively control corruption.... -- Kavita Krishnan 9560756628 -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an 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/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
