Dear friends...there has been a huge wave of discussion about lokpal and lokpal bill which has engulfed the entire nation.Everyone in this country is talking about lokpal.Lets know what exactly lokpal is...
Lokpal is an ombudsman institution which is influenced by the Swedish system.The institution of Ombudsman was first created in Sweden in 1809.The literal meaning of ombudsman is "a person who acts as the representative or spokesman of another person".In general ombudsman refers to an officer appointed by the legislature to handle complaints against political and administrative action or corrupt practices.
Thus lokpal is an institution to fight against the administrative and political corruption.
Now the next major issue is why there is a need of Lokpal when we already have other instituions like Central Vigilance Commission,CBI etc to fight against corruption.
The answer is the institution of lokpal will be different from the existing institutions in terms of autonomy and independence which simply means lokpal will work freely and independently and on suo moto in cases related to corruption and will be an institution with sharp teeth to fight against corruption.
However it would be wrong to except that lokpal will be a magical institution and will be able to wipe out corruption from the administrative system.It will use the same police machinery,same investigation machinery which are being used by other agencies.We have Lokayukta in states which is a form of lokpal in states and its painful to say that the contribution of lokayukta in states in fight against corruption is negligible.We can though expect that installation of lokpal will be a positive step towards the fight against corruption.
So lets support this positive institution of lokpal and the lokpal bill and the performance of lokpal can be analysed and discussed only after it is created and start functioning.
Your suggestions are invited...
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