The Union Government of India issued a Notification in the second week of April 2011 constituting a Joint Drafting Committee to prepare a draft of the Lok Pal Bill. The Joint Drafting Committee shall consist of five nominee Ministers of the Government of India and Five nominees of Shri Anna Hazare (including himself).
The five nominee Ministers of the Government of India are as under:-
(i) Pranab Mukherjee, Union Minister of Finance.
(ii) P. Chidambaram, Union Minister of Home Affairs.
(iii) Veerappa Moily, Union Minister of Law and Justice.
(iv) Kapil Sibal, Union Minister of Human Resource and Development and
Minister of Communication and Information Technology
(v)Salman Khursheed, Union Minister of Water Resources and
Minister of Minority Affairs
The five nominees of Anna Hazare (including himself) are as under:-
(i) Anna Hazare
(ii) Justice N. Santosh Hedge
(iii) Shanti Bhushan, Senior Advocate
(iv) Prashant Bhushan, Advocate
(v) Arvind Kejriwal.
Anna Hazare is a well-acclaimed social activist. He observed a hunger strike in New Delhi against the large scale corruption at the national level. He made sincere efforts to have RTI ( Right to Information) act implemented in its right spirit.
The Chairperson of the Joint Drafting Committee shall be Pranab Mukherjee. The Co-Chairperson of the Joint Drafting Committee shall be Shanti Bhushan.
The Convenor of the Join Drafting Committee shall be M. Veerappa Moily. The Joint Drafting Committee shall commence its work forthwith and evolve its own procedure to prepare the proposed legislation. The Joint Drafting Committee shall complete its work latest by 30 June, 2011.
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