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Arvind Kejriwal: One of the biggest youth icon in 21st century in India?
Posted by admin in National News, News, Opinions on September 3, 2011
Arvind Kejriwal: Biggest youth icon in 21st century in India
Arvind Kejriwal was born in 16th June, 1968 in a middle-class family in the Hisar district of Haryana. His father, Gobind Ram Kejriwal, is a retired electrical engineer. A quiet child, Kejriwal did his schooling from Sonipat, where he displayed a natural aptitude for mathematics and scored high marks. He spent most of his childhood surrounded by books. Whenever guests came to the his house of one-bedroom apartment, He avoid them and studied in the bathroom.
After schooling in 1985, Arvind decided he wanted to study at one of the prestigious engineering institute Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). His father Gobind Ram Kejriwal advised him to apply to other state engineering colleges as a backup, and enrolled him at Kurukshetra University, Haryana. But Kejriwal refused to even consider it. He skipped the Kurukshetra entrance exam altogether. He has decided that he will go to IIT only.
He qualified for admission to IIT Kharagpur and started his career in Mechanical engineering. He finished his engineering degree in 1989. After engineering, he was hired as an assistant engineer (design) at Tata Steel in Jamshedpur. Kejriwal quit his job with Tata Steel in 1992 and spent some time working with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, the Ramakrishna Mission in the North-East India and Nehru Yuva Kendra. Then, He returned to Delhi and prepared for the Civil
Services Examination.
Kejriwal didn’t qualify for an Indian Administrative Service rank, but he scored enough to enter the Indian Revenue Service (IRS). At the training course in Mussoorie, he met his future wife, Sunita, and after passing out, they both joined the Income Tax (IT) Department in Delhi as assistant commissioners. During his job in bureaucracy Kejriwal always refused to use peons. he cleaned his own desk and emptied his own dustbin. He avoided office parties and other social gatherings,
preferring to sit at a nearby tea stall. He has worked for Indian government for more than one decade and resigned from the service in 2006.
While he was an Additional Commissioner of Income Tax in Delhi, Kejriwal quietly started Parivartan, an organization that has never been officially registered. It is run by a few young volunteers who have helped thousands of citizens get everyday benefits—like a ration card or an electricity connection—without paying bribes to government officials. Parivartan [which means change] is also spearheading research into the right to information (RTI) and governance issues.
Arvind Kejriwal with Anna Hazare
Kejriwal is among the top contributors in the two mass movements of the 21st century in India.
Arvind Kejriwal sleeping on Newspaper in New Delhi Railway Station
He has extensively worked in the Right To Information(RTI) and currently among the core team of Indian Against Corruption(IAC) led by Gandhian Anna Hazare.
His simplicity, dedication towards India and finally the top contributors in the two mass movements makes him one of biggest youth icon in 21st century in India.
Jan Lokpal vs Government Lokpal – Must Read!
Posted by admin in National News, Opinions on August 20, 2011
Today India Against Corruption(IAC) has made some nice presentation to explain the clear differences between Jan Lokpal vs Government version Lokpal.
You can also view in document Click Here
Gujarat govt forms retired Supreme Court Justice M.B. Shah commission to look into allegations of corruption against the CM Narendra Modi
Posted by admin in National News, News on August 17, 2011
Gujarat CM, Narendra Modi has made a commission headed by retired Supreme Court Justice M.B.Shah to investigate some allegations against him pointed out by opposition Congress party. State government’s spokespersons Shri Jaynarayan Vyas and Saurabh Patel said that “This commission will look into the charges made by opposition Congress party in memorandum that was given to the President of India Smt. Pratibha Patil few days back”.
Spokespersosn added that “State government is working transparently and it has created an example by formation of such commission voluntarily on its own. This commission will check the comparision between post sops given to different industries after 1980 and sops given to industries by other state governments in India. The commission will be formed under Commission of inquiry act 1952. All issues raised by Congess party against present state government in a memorandum submitted to the Smt. Pratibha Patil are covered under the proposed probe commission. However two issues are presently subjuidice. Therefore the commission will actually look into other issues. The commission will submit a report by 31st March, 2012 to state government.
These are the charges to be investigated by proposed commission:
– Allotment of land at negligible cost to industries in Gandhinagar.
– Rs. 33K crore concessions to Tata Nano car project.
– Allotment of Mundra port and Mundra SEZ land to Adani.
– Allotment of Navsari Agricultural University’s prime land to M/s Chhatrala group of hotels without public auction.
– Approval of construction and illegal allotment of forest land and coastal regulation zone to Essar group.
– A large land in Kutch allegedly allotted to BJP leader Shri Venkaiyah Naidu for salt chemicals company in border area of Kutch.
– Allotment of land at prime location on Ahmedabad’s Sarkhej-Gandhinagar highway to Bharat Hotels ltd.
– Land allotments to various industries and industrialists to establish industrial units near major cities.
– Allotment of land at prime location to L&T company near Surat’s Hazira without auction.
– Cattle feed scam.
– Nutrition fortified blended food scam in Anganwadis.
– Gujarat State Petroleum related charges.
– Charges related to use of Luxury jet, aircraft and chopper belonging to industrial houses by the Chief Minister.
– Charges of corruption in Sujalam Sufalam water distribution project.
– Charges of direct involvement of state Revenue minister’s office and Chief Minister’s office leaving all laws aside in purchase and sale of Kutch district’s 36.25 acre agricultural land to Mumbai based Indigold refinery.
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