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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | ‘Anna’s objection to Grievance Bill based on old draft’ by Abantika Ghosh

‘Anna’s objection to Grievance Bill based on old draft’ by Abantika Ghosh

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published Published on Dec 22, 2011   modified Modified on Dec 22, 2011

Nikhil Dey, co-convenor of the National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI), has said that Team Anna’s opposition to the Grievance Redressal Bill is outdated as it seems to be based on the older version of the Bill which is available on the Internet.
 
The din over the Lokpal — which is at best a “huge police agency that will send people to jail” — he says, has drowned the Bill which provides for a Citizens Charter that is going to make an impact on people’s ability to get work done like the RTI Act did and this is far more important for them than tackling corruption.

“Getting their bijli, sadak, paani is far more important for the common man and it is the Grievance Bill that will give them that, not the Lokpal Bill,” Dey said.

“Anna had trashed the Grievance Bill right after its introduction, but his objections seem to be based on the older version that is available on the Internet, some of the objections are simply rhetorical. In fact, what they envisage — sending grievances from the state commission to the Lokpal — is the greatest way to finish the anti-corruption ombudsman as it would collapse under a flood of complaints,” Dey said speaking to The Indian Express.

However, Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal said: “It is wrong to say that our objections are based on an older version of the Bill.”

Dey said the NCPRI is quite happy with the present Bill. “They have changed the appeal mechanism. Though the authority is not specified, it would be somebody between the grievance redressal officer and the state commission and could well be the district grievance officer as we had demanded. There are some other changes that need to be made but overall it is good,” he said.

The Indian Express, 22 December, 2011, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/-Anna-s-objection-to-Grievance-Bill-based-on-old-draft-/890579/


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