Fight Against Corruption!! Is JanLokpal is the End?

As the title suggest, Article is all about Lokpal bill, Anna Hazare is one of the prime activist of India Against Corruption moment.

A look at the salient features of Jan Lokpal Bill:

1. An institution called LOKPAL at the centre and LOKAYUKTA in each state will be set up

2. Like Supreme Court and Election Commission, they will be completely independent of the governments. No minister or bureaucrat will be able to influence their investigations.

3. Cases against corrupt people will not linger on for years anymore: Investigations in any case will have to be completed in one year. Trial should be completed in next one year so that the corrupt politician, officer or judge is sent to jail within two years.

4. The loss that a corrupt person caused to the government will be recovered at the time of conviction.

5. How will it help a common citizen: If any work of any citizen is not done in prescribed time in any government office, Lokpal will impose financial penalty on guilty officers, which will be given as compensation to the complainant.

6. So, you could approach Lokpal if your ration card or passport or voter card is not being made or if police is not registering your case or any other work is not being done in prescribed time. Lokpal will have to get it done in a month's time. You could also report any case of corruption to Lokpal like ration being siphoned off, poor quality roads been constructed or panchayat funds being siphoned off. Lokpal will have to complete its investigations in a year, trial will be over in next one year and the guilty will go to jail within two years.

7. But won't the government appoint corrupt and weak people as Lokpal members? That won't be possible because its members will be selected by judges, citizens and constitutional authorities and not by politicians, through a completely transparent and participatory process.

8. What if some officer in Lokpal becomes corrupt? The entire functioning of Lokpal/ Lokayukta will be completely transparent. Any complaint against any officer of Lokpal shall be investigated and the officer dismissed within two months.

9. What will happen to existing anti-corruption agencies? CVC, departmental vigilance and anti-corruption branch of CBI will be merged into Lokpal. Lokpal will have complete powers and machinery to independently investigate and prosecute any officer, judge or politician.

10. It will be the duty of the Lokpal to provide protection to those who are being victimized for raising their voice against corruption.

Lokpal is just one of the many things that needs to be done to actually Fight corruption, We should not just think that JANLOKPAL is the ultimate solution and the end...We have to make people use it after the law is taken into effect.

We should "SAY NO TO CORRUPTION" and implement it in our life, enlighten family members , frends and make them do the same. Try to learn all the laws that are already available to us like RTI (though it has its own limitation), but frankly did we use it?

I don't think Anna' protest is unjustified, but I agree that Lokpal is not Magic wand to fight corruption, Corruption needs to be tackled in a much strategic manner.

Please refer this video:

http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/176743/annas-protest-unjustified-nandan-nilekani.html

Rainbow from different angles

Looking at the rainbow brings joy and happiness inside the living. Every word in this world has different meanings according to the viewer's or user's perspective.

Yesterday when I got the chance to look at a complete semicircular rainbow, I was thrilled and felt a complete bliss inside me. That made me realized, life without colors would have been so depressing.

Rainbow signifies happiness and joy in a painter's painting. Rainbow is used as the metaphor for the smile. For scientists, Its an example of TIR.

The most spectacular rainbow displays happen when half of the sky is still dark with raining clouds and the observer is at a spot with clear sky in the direction of the Sun. The result is a luminous rainbow that contrasts with the darkened background.

Be Creative Be Different

An Excerpt from an autobiography.....

Some time ago I received a call from a colleague. He was about to
give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student
claimed a perfect score. The instructor and the student agreed to an
impartial arbiter, and I was selected.

I read the examination question:

"SHOW HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO DETERMINE THE HEIGHT OF A TALL BUILDING WITH THE AID OF A BAROMETER."

The student had answered, "Take the barometer to the top of the building,
attach a long rope to it, lower it to the street, and then bring it up,
measuring the length of the rope. The length of the rope is the height of
the building."

The student really had a strong case for full credit since he had really
answered the question completely and correctly! On the other hand, if full
credit were given, it could well contribute to a high grade in his physics
course and to certify competence in physics, but the answer did not confirm
this.

I suggested that the student have another try. I gave the student six
minutes to answer the question with the warning that the answer should show
some knowledge of physics . At the end of five minutes, he had not written
anything. I asked if he wished to give up, but he said he had many answers
to this problem; he was just thinking of the best one . I excused myself
for interrupting him and asked him to please go on.

In the next minute, he dashed off his answer, which read:

"Take the barometer to the top of the building and lean over the edge of
the roof. Drop the barometer, timing its fall with a stopwatch. Then, using
the formula H = 1/2 x a x t 2 , calculate the height of the building."

At this point, I asked my colleague if he would give up. He conceded, and
gave the student almost full credit.

While leaving my colleague's office, I recalled that the student had said
that he had other answers to the problem, so I asked him what they were.

"Well," said the student, "there are many ways of getting the
height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer.

For example, you could take the barometer out on a sunny day and measure
the height of the barometer, the length of its shadow, and the length of the
shadow of the building, and by the use of simple proportion, determine the
height of the building."

"Fine," I said, "and others?"

"Yes," said the student, "there is a very basic measurement
method you will like. In this method, you take the barometer and begin to
walk up the stairs. As you climb the stairs, you mark off the length of the barometer
along the wall. You then count the number of marks, and this will give you
the height of the building in barometer units."

"A very direct method."

"Of course. If you want a more sophisticated method, you can tie the
barometer to the end of a string, swing it as a pendulum, and determine the
value of g at the street level and at the top of the building."

From the difference between the two values of g, the height of the
building, in principle, can be calculated."

"On this same tact, you could take the barometer to the top of the
building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to just above the street, and
then swing it as a pendulum. You could then calculate the height of the building by
the period of the precession."

"Finally," he concluded, "there are many other ways of solving
the problem."

Probably the best," he said, "is to take the barometer to the basement
and knock on the superintendent's door. When the superintendent answers,
you speak to him as follows:

'Mr. Superintendent, here is a fine barometer. If you will tell me the
height of the building, I will give you this barometer."

At this point, I asked the student if he really did not know the
conventional answer to this question. He admitted that he did, but said
that he was fed up with high school and college instructors trying to teach him
how to think.

The student was Neil Bohr (known for quantum theory of physics &
mechanics, hydrogen atom etc ) and the arbiter was Rutherford.


Think different...