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Arvind kejripal
Born (1968-08-16) 16 August 1968 (age 56)
Hissar, Haryana
EducationB.Tech in Mechanical Engineering
Alma materIIT Kharagpur
Organization(s)Parivartan (परिवर्तन)
Public Cause Research Foundation
India Against Corruption
Movement2012 Indian anti-corruption movement
2011 Indian anti-corruption movement
Right to Information
Jan Lokpal Bill
Children2
Websitehttp://www.pcrf.in/

Arvind Kejriwal (born 16 Aug 1968) is a former Indian civil servant and is currently a social activist fighting for greater transparency in Government.[1]

He was awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2006, for activating India's Right to Information movement at grassroots and social activities to empower the poorest citizens to fight corruption by holding the government answerable to the people.[2][2][2][3] Kejriwal is also a Saathi (fellow) of the Association for India's Development,[4] a Global Impact award winning NGO.[5] In 2006 after resigning from IRS,he founded an NGO Public cause Research Foundation[6] by donating his Magasaysay award money as corpus fund.In 2010, he along with few like minded people formed India Against Corruption which aimed at enacting of strong and effective anti-corruption law in India.[7]

Early life

Arvind Kejriwal was born in Hissar, Haryana on 16 August 1968.[1] His father was an engineer and he spent most of his childhood living in small northern Indian towns like Sonepat, Mathura and Hissar. He did his schooling from Campus School.[8] Kejriwal graduated from IIT Kharagpur with a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering in 1989.[9][10]In PAN IIT 2011 speech, Kejriwal recollected how IIT Kharagpur shaped him as a person saying, "‎I was at IIT Kharagpur from 1985 to 1989 and I think that was the most critical period of my life". "What ever I learnt at IIT has stayed with me .. the entire culture, environment has laid the foundation in my life... and I am very grateful to my alma mater ". "I urge all fellow IITians..you are the cream of this country .. please go and influence the politicians to pass the Jan Lokpal bill ".[11]

Career

Kejriwal joined Tata Steel right after his graduation from IIT Kharagpur. Kejriwal quit his job with Tata Steel in 1992[citation needed] 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.[12][13]

Kejriwal joined the Indian Revenue Service in 1992 after qualifying the Civil Services Examination.[13] In February 2006, he voluntarily resigned from the IRS as Joint Commissioner in IT Department.[14] After voluntary resignation from job, he founded Parivartan, a Delhi based citizens’ movement which works on ensuring a just, transparent and accountable governance. In December 2006, Kejriwal along with Manish Sisodia and Abhinandan Sekhri started Public Cause Research Foundation, which works for promoting better local self governance and RTI related campaigns[15]

Right to Information

He along with Aruna Roy and others, campaigned for the Right to Information Act (RTI), which soon became a silent social movement, Delhi Right to Information Act was passed in 2001[9] and eventually at national level Indian Parliament passed the RTI in 2005. Thereafter, in July 2006, he spearheaded an awareness campaign for RTI across India.[16] To motivate others Arvind has now instituted an RTI Award through his organisation.[17] Kejriwal has been using RTI in corruption cases in many government departments including the Income Tax department, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the Public Distribution System (PDS), the Delhi Electricity Board and others.[12][18]

Jan Lokpal Bill

for the enactment of Jan Lokpal Bill. After spearheading the Right to Information Act, 2005 campaign,it became pretty clear that corruption could be exposed using Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI), but to prosecute and punish corrupt people, an effective anti-corruption law was needed. To comply with this,Arvind Kejriwal along with Prashant Bhushan, Shanti Bhushan, Santosh Hegde and Kiran Bedi drafted Jan Lokpal Bill. As the bill was edited and revised time to time after country wide public consultations, it was known as Jan Lokpal Bill i.e.Peoples's Lokpall bill. Though Anna Hazare was the leader of the movement for Janlokpal, Arvind Kejriwal is regarded as the architect behind the movement.Janlokpal bill movement actually started when anna Hazare started anshan on Jantar Mantar on 5th april 2011.This got immense support from all over the country and government was forced to form a joint drafting committee for Lokpal Bill.India Against Corruption had announced indefinite fast from 15 August 2011 if government would fail to bring the lokpal bill in the monsoon session of the parliament in August 2011. On August 16, 2011, Key members of the India Against Corruption including Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi, and Manish Sisodia were arrested four hours before the planned indefinite hunger strike by Hazare.[19] Rajan Bhagat, spokesman for Delhi Police, said police arrested Hazare under a legal provision that bans public gatherings and protests at the park in Delhi where Hazare was planning to begin his hunger strike. Activists were later released same day although they spent two more days in the Tihar jail negotiating conditions put on protest.[20] Kejriwal left the jail on August 18 and the protests started the following day from Ramlila Maidan in Delhi.[21] After twelve days of protests and many discussions between the government and the activists, Parliament passed a resolution to consider three points in drafting of Lokpal bill.[22]

Indefinite Fast from 25th July 2012

After referring the bill to Standing committee,the bill was presented to both houses of parliament in the winter session.However, according to India Against Corruption it was a weak bill lacked effective measures.The bill was passed in the Loksabha, but it could not be passed by Rajyasabha.In the budget session the bill was decided to be referred to select committee for further recommendations. Now India against corruption has come to a conclusion that 15 tainted ministers in the central cabinet are behind the delay in the process of passing of a strong Lokpal bill.Therefore India Against Corruption demanded establishment of Special Investigation Team to investigate corruption charges against 15 tainted cabinet ministers and establishment of fast track courts to prosecute MPs against whom grave criminal charges are pending.These demands being rejected by Government, Arvind Kejriwal along with Manish Sisodia and Gopal Rai, sat on an indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar from 25 July 2012.This agitation was supported by thousand of people nationwide.Even after 10 days of fasting, government did not respond to any of the demands.When a group of 23 eminent citizens of this country including Ex Army chief/Naval Chief, retired Chief Justice of supreme court,retired beaurocrats requested them to break the fast and give a political alternative to this country.After consulting popular opinion,Anna Hazare and his team decided to go ahead with forming a political party.He faced a lot of problems in his ansan.

Personal life

Kejriwal is married to Sunita, who is an IRS officer and his batchmate from National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie.[10] Presently she is working as an Additional Director in Serious Fraud Investigation Office. They live in Ghaziabad near Delhi with their two children.[13] Arvind Kejriwal has written a book "Swaraj". [23][24]

Awards

Arvind Kejariwal has also won an IIM Gold Medal. [citation needed]

Flip-flop Attack on Kejriwal

Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal was attacked with flip-flops during a program in Jhulelal Park Lucknow, India under India Against Corruption (IAC) anti-graft campaign.[28]

After the incident, the accused was caught by the IAC volunteers and handed over to the police. Later, Mr. Kejriwal asked that the accused be released and did not file any FIR against him.[29]

The accused was identified as Jitendra Pathak of Uttar Pradesh’s Jalaun district, who worked for the Indian National Congress from 2006-2009 and is a former member of Congress Sewa Dal.[30] He was not a mere party worker but was responsible for key areas in Jhansi. As per the accused acceptance, he considers Rahul Gandhi as his role model.[31][32]

Kejriwal's attacker Jitendra Pathak has been sacked from his job. He is working in a private construction company Ansh Project Service, Lucknow.[33] On the other hand, Arvind Kejriwal has written a letter to the chairman of the company to take back their decision and to retain the accused. As per Kejriwal's ideology, violence can be stopped by non-violence only and taking Jitendra's job is violence against the accused and his family.[34]

In a Sting operation done by India TV in Lucknow, the slipper threatened a bomb attack during Anna Hazare's anti-graft movement in Uttar Pradesh .[35]

See also

References

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  2. ^ a b c d Citation The 2006 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership-CITATION.
  3. ^ a b "Magsaysay to Kejriwal". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 1 August 2006. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  4. ^ "Association for India's Development". Retrieved 1 November 2011.
  5. ^ "For this NGO, all roads lead to India". Times of India. September 20, 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
  6. ^ www.pcrf.in
  7. ^ www.indiaagainstcorruption.org
  8. ^ http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/pdfbio/KejriwalArv.pdf
  9. ^ a b c Profile IIT Kanpur Alumni Association. Satyendra K. Dubey Memorial Award citation.
  10. ^ a b Hauzel, Hoihnu (Saturday, September 30, 2006). "Fighting the odds". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 August 2011. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmeO3xEaktQ
  12. ^ a b c "Arvind Kejriwal". {{cite web}}: Text "Ashoka - Innovators for the Public" ignored (help)
  13. ^ a b c Sivanand, Mohan. "Arvind Kejriwal's Quest for Change". Rreaders Digest. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  14. ^ Press Trust of India (2011-12-21), "Federal Government accepts Kejriwal's resignation after six years in 2011", CNN-IBN, retrieved 2011-12-21
  15. ^ "Public Cause Research Foundation. Arvind Kejriwal has also won IIM Gold Medal For the best student. [[Category:All articles with unsourced statements]][[Category:Articles with unsourced statements from August 2012]][[[Wikipedia:Citation needed|citation needed]]] About". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2011. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  16. ^ Don’t throttle RTI Arvind Kejriwal, livemint, Jul 6 2007.
  17. ^ "RTI Awards 2010 | About RTI". Retrieved 22 August 2011.
  18. ^ "Team Anna member Kejriwal decides to pay dues". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  19. ^ "Anna Hazare IS the movement". Rediff. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
  20. ^ "Anna Hazare refuses to leave Tihar Jail, says allow fast at JP Park". NDTV. August 17, 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
  21. ^ "Anna to stay in Tihar till venue is ready". Times of India. 18 Aug 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
  22. ^ "Agreed! says Parliament to Anna; fast ends at 10 am". NDTV. August 28, 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
  23. ^ http://iacmumbai.org/sadmin/images/system_documents/category_files/13/Swaraj%20-%20By%20Arvind%20Kejriwal%20-%20English.pdf
  24. ^ "Anna Hazare launches colleague Arvind Kejriwal's book 'Swaraj' at Jantar Mantar". Times Of India. July 29, 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  25. ^ "CNN IBN - INDIAN OF THE YEAR". Retrieved 25 August 2011.
  26. ^ "ET Awards: The top 10 of 2010". The Economic Times. 7 Oct, 2010. Retrieved 24 August 2011. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  27. ^ "NDTV Indian of the Year 2011". ndtv.com. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  28. ^ "Kejriwal Attacked with Slipper". 18 October 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  29. ^ "Team Anna condemns attack on Kejriwal". Economic Times. 18 October 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  30. ^ "Arvind Kejriwal attacked with Slipper by a Congress Seva Dal Member". 19 October 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  31. ^ "Kejriwal attacker was in Congress". 19 October 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  32. ^ "Kejriwal attacker is a Rahul Gandhi fan". 19 October 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  33. ^ "Kejriwal attacker sacked job". 20 October 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  34. ^ "Kejriwal letter to chairman". 20 October 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  35. ^ "Planning to attack on Anna & Medha Patkar". The Times Of India. 12 November 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
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