Comment Pieces

Is the government serious about dealing with corruption?

`In the last two meetings of the Joint Drafting Committee (JDC), the Ministers representing the government rejected most of the critical elements in this vision of the Lokpal. They saw the Lokpal as an essentially 11-member institution where all decisions would have to be taken by these members themselves. Instead of comprehensive anti-corruption machinery, they see it as an institution to look at a few cases of high-level corruption’. Says this article, but what the Lokpal activists want is a full investigative agency under its control through which it would get complaints investigated and offenders would then be prosecuted. The debate continues…