The 10-member joint committee comprising five ministers and five civil society representatives, for drafting the anti-graft Lokpal Bill will hold its first meeting in New Delhi on Saturday.
The meeting of will begin at 11.30 a.m., sources added.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is the chairman of the committee while social reformer Anna Hazare , who went on a 97-hour fast In New Delhi to demand a stronger Lokpal (ombudsman) Bill to tackle corruption, is one of the five members from the civil society.
Law Minister Veerappa Moily, Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal and Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed are the other ministerial members. Former law minister Shanti Bhushan, representing the civil society, is the co-chairman.
Besides Hazare and Shanti Bhushan, lawyer Prashant Bhushan, Right To Information activist Arvind Kejriwal and former Supreme Court judge N. Santosh Hegde are also on the committee.
All members of the committee are likely to attend the meeting, sources said.
“The first meeting is likely to be of an introductory nature,” Prashant Bhushan told media.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that the bill will be introduced in the monsoon session of parliament in July.
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Poverty Defined
Indian Government does not consider you as “ Poor “, if you can afford to spend [ on food / clothing / shelter combined ],
Rs. 12 per day living in small towns [ $ 0.25 / day ]
Rs. 17 per day, living in metros [ $ 0.28 / day ]
That makes 544 million Indians ( 45 % of the population ) “ Rich “, since they are earning as much as Rs. 20 [ $ 0.41 ] per day !
And since the statutory minimum wages are Rs. 150 per day, obviously these 544 million people are “ unemployed “ or employed for only a few days in a year.
But if we can somehow manage to bring back those 2 lakh crore rupees lying in Swiss banks, we can provide year round jobs to 600 million people !
This is why we must support Anna Hazare in getting rid of corruption.
This is our last chance – and it is in the hands of Young Indians !
With regards
hemen parekh
Jobs for All = Peace on Earth