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I have always been one to explore; whether it be climbing the mountains of Alaska, conducting research in a leading university in…

IIT Bombay in 1958 A distinctive view about IITB and its life exists amid the student society of the 80s and today.…

This year, every student who applied to be a part of the placement process was forced to attend a Value Inc Session…

As our reporters went around the campus looking for news, we found some confused souls who were looking for the answer to…

Reporters: Abhi Suri, Akshay Soni, Alankar Jain, Manu Sahay, Neha Innanje With inputs from Mukul Gupta and Vivek Upadhyay September 14, 2011,…

This is in response to Human Chain @ IITB. To know more about the Jan Lokpal Bill – Jan Lokpal: A brief summary…

History and background The basic idea of a Lokpal bill is to tackle corruption at the higher echelons of power and to create a just and honest work culture. The idea is borrowed from the office of Ombudsman in Scandinavian countries, where an ombudsman is a person who acts as a trusted intermediary between an organization and some internal or external constituency while representing not only but mostly, the broad scope of constituent interests. The Lokpal bill was first introduced by Shanti Bhushan (also a co-chairman of the current Lokpal Drafting committee) in 1968 and tabled in the 4th Lok Sabha in 1969. But it did not get through in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India. Subsequent versions were re-introduced in 1971, 1977, 1985, 1989, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2005 and in 2008, but none of them passed, mostly owing to dissolution of the parliament at various times. As Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari rhetorically puts it, “Government proposes, parliament disposes”. The Lokpal Bill issue picked up momentum when Gandhian activist Anna Hazare started a Satyagraha movement by commencing a fast unto death which apart from attracting a lot of attention and public support, also prompted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to announce a re-introduction of the bill  in the 2011 monsoon session of the Parliament. Accordingly a truce was negotiated and a 10 member Drafting committee was formed, with 5 members sourced from the cabinet of ministers and 5 from the civil society, to be co-chaired by one member on each side. The Split…