December 17, 2011
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301.001 : The Zero -- 3 line law can reduce poverty, corruption, MNC domination in 4 months
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(for downloading complete PDF , containing 50 chapters on full law-drafts needed to reduce MNC-domination, nepotism in courts, corruption in police/courts/education, improve education, improve Military, reduce cow slaughter, see http://rahulmehta.com/301.htm )
(For index, see notes #301.Index at http://facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150422423416922 )
(A four page version of this chapter written for easy distribution is athttp://rahulmehta.com/001.pdf . And notes 301.003 of this book has more details on this proposed 3 line law. )
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1.1 So is this some joke?
The intellectuals of India have claimed that MNC-owners’ domination, poverty, corruption in police, nepotism in judges, corruption in education etc problems are so difficult that it would take decades of Herculean efforts to reduce these problems. And here comes Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta (myself), and boldly claims that a mere three line proposed Gazette Notification - can reduce MNC domination, poverty and corruption etc and that too within mere 4 months.
And I further boast that the proposed RTI2-GN-draft has no negative side effects, and the proposed RTI2-GN-draft is 100% Constitutional and in synch with all the existing laws. And it doesn’t need a legislation from MPs\MLAs – a Gazette Notification will suffice as proposed RTI2-GN-draft already come under existing powers of PM, CM etc. So now can such a short GN draft so powerful even exist? Most intellectuals of India have refused to accept that such a trivial short law-draft can reduce poverty and corruption even by 1%. Either these intellectuals are all wrong or I am a 200% liar and also a 400% insane joker. You, the reader, can decide, whether the intellectuals are wrong or I am a liar\joker, before or after you decide to read this chapter and next 3 chapters, and have read the intellectuals’ rebuttals against my proposed RTI2 Gazette Notification draft. And I will add more to my claim - the 3 line RTI2 Gazette Notification that I have proposed will do lot more than reducing poverty and corruption in police\courts\education. Within 4-8 months, RTI2-GN will improve Military, ration card system (public distribution system) and ALL depts in Govt. And proposed RTI2 has no negative side effect. If these claim ever turn out to be true, it would be an extremely shameful event for all intellectuals.
So finally, what is this three line proposed RTI2 GN, and how can this RTI2 GN do these tasks and that too within mere 4 months?
And one more question comes is : how do I propose to mobilize activists and citizens to force PM to sign RTI2 draft? On this,
I make a much taller claim. If as small as 200,000 anti-corruption pro-poor anti-MNC activists in India spend one hour a week on the list of 30-40 tiny actions I have mentioned in chap-13, then in less than a year, their actions will create a non-violent mass movement that will force PM to sign the RTI2 law or a law which contains RTI2.
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1.2 What is a Gazette Notification?
One of the most important goal of my RTR Movement is to explain all activists and all citizens of India what is Gazette Notification, and how easy but important it is to print a page in Gazette and thus bring change in Govt. Once activists and citizens has information on Gazette Notification printing process, they will see that changing Govt or changing system is easier than playing with toys.
Gazette Notification aka GN aka Rajpatra is a booklet published by Central Govt and State Govts every month or so and contains orders given by Ministers to Dept Secretaries, District Collectors etc. (Below are two pages of Gazette Notifications show as sample example). If the Government is seen as a computer, then the Gazette is the sole executable code on which it works. If activists want any change in Govt officer’s activities and attitude, they must ask Ministers to put proposed changes in next Gazette Notification and activists need not do anything else but demand change in Gazette. When the proposed drafts come in Gazette, then and then only changes in Govt officers will come. If an activist-leader is demanding change in Govt without detailing Gazette Notification he wants, he is only wasting away citizens’ time and he may be doing so deliberately. So I request all activists to focus on the Gazette Notification drafts for the changes activist-leaders demands).
Sadly very few activists in India know importance of these print-outs named as Gazette Notifications and one goal of mine is to ensure that maximal number of activists and citizens understand importance of GN.’
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1.3 The draft of proposed RTI2 Gazette Notification at National level
The proposed RTI2 GN has only 3 clauses, as follows. Please note that the 3rd clause is a mere declaration. So as such, the proposed RTI2 GN has only 2 operational clauses. I request all citizens of India to ask PM to print following page in Gazette Notification next month.
--- Proposed RTI2 Gazette Notification draft starts ---
1. (procedure for Collector or his clerk) The President hereby orders Collector that : if a woman voter or dalit voter or senior citizen voter or poor voter or farmer voter or ANY citizen-voter in his district submits a Right to Information application or complaint against corruption or any affidavit to the Collector and requests to be put on the website of Prime Minister, the Collector or his designated clerk will issue a serial number and put that affidavit on the website of the Prime Minister for a fee of Rs 20 per page.
2. (procedure for Talati, Patwari, Village Officer or his clerk) The President orders Patwari that :
(2.1) if a woman voter or a dalit voter or a senior citizen voter or a poor voter or a farmer voter or ANY citizen-voter comes with voter ID, and specifies Yes-No on an RTI application, complaint or any affidavit submitted in cluase-1, the Patwari will enter his Yes-No on the PM’s website with his voter-ID and give a printed receipt for Rs 3 fee.
(2.2) The Patwari will also allow citizen to change his Yes-No for Rs 3 fee.
(2.3) The fee will be Re 1 for BPL card holder
(2.4) The Collector may create a system of sending SMS feedback to the voter
(2.5) The Collector may create a system of taking finger-print and picture of the voter and putting it on the receipt.
(2.6) The PM may create a system where by citizens can register YES/NO via ATM using ATM-cards.
(2.7) PM may add means to enable citizens to register YES/NO via SMS
3. (a note to all Citizens, Officers, Ministers …)
(3.1) This RTI2 GN is not a referendum procedure. The Yes-No count will not be a binding on PM, CMs, officers, judges etc. If over 37 crore women voters, dalit voters, senior citizen voters, poor voters, farmer voters or ANY 37 crore citizen-voters register Yes on a given affidavit, then the PM may or need not take necessary action on the affidavit ; may print it in Gazette or the PM may or need not resign. PM’s decision will be final.
(3.2) Further, the Collector may design and propose a system to collect Yes-No in clause-2 over SMS, and implement after approval of PM.
--- Proposed RTI2 Gazette Notification draft ends ---
I summarize the RTI2 law as
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1.4 Do all citizens in India have internet to use this GN? And other questions
Question-1 : Do all citizens have internet to use this proposed RTI2 GN?
Answer : This is the most common wrong question I get on proposed RTI2-GN. I call it wrong question, because the proposed GN does not at all require the citizens to have an internet connection to begin with. Whether the citizen has internet or not, he must visit the Collector’s office in person to submit his complaint or RTI application. And whether he has internet or not, he must visit Talati’s (Lekhpal, Patwari, Village Officer, VO) office in person to register YES on a complaint or affidavit. So internet is not at all required for a citizen to use this law. And even if a person has internet, it would make no difference. So the law can be used by all citizen-voters of India. If he has internet connection, he can read the affidavits with ease. But then so can someone without internet --- he only needs to ask someone who has internet connection.
Question-2 : Wont elitemen purchase the votes?
Answer : Pls glance at clause-2.1. The clause-2.1 of proposed Gazette Notification RTI2 says that any citizen can register YES/NO and it will come on PM’s website and SMS. Now can an elitemen shell out Rs 100 cr and ask 1 cr citizens to register YES? Well, please also glance at clause-2.2. The citizen can change his YES/NO any day. So if an eliteman pays Rs 100 to crores of citizens to file YES , then the next day, nothing stops the citizens from asking for Rs 100 again and Rs 100 next to next day again, or threaten to change YES to NO. Now no eliteman can control crores citizens for even a week even with full army. If elitemen decide to pay Rs 100 every day to crores of citizens, they will run out of money. IOW, clause-2.2 ensures that approvals are unaffordable in RTI2-GN.
Question-3 : What is the cost of RTI2?
Answer : There are two parts – cost borne by private individuals and cost borne by the Government. Eg at the time voting in general elections, some cost borne by candidates, some by the voter (eg expense to travel from home to booth to home) and some by Govt. As per election commission, the voting expense is about Rs 20 per voter, on an average. In RTI2, the expense on Govt is zero, as the person pays Rs 3 fees to register his YES/NO. On one day, a clerk can register YES/NO of over 250 citizens, which will create collection of Rs 750 which is more than enough that pay his salary and all other expenses. So if all 75 crore voters register YES/NO by visit office of Talati, then costs citizens will need to bear will be Rs 225 crores. And when the system comes on SMS and ATM, the cost per YES/NO citizen has to pay reduces to few paise. So even if 75 crore citizens were to file YES using ATM or SMS, the costs will be below few crore rupees only. The cost on Govt is zero because citizen has to pay a small fee to file Yes/No.
For more FAQs , pls see chap-3.
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1.5 A one line summary of RTI2
One line summary of RTI2 is : if a citizen wants, Collector’s clerk will put citizen’s complaint on the website of the Prime Minister for a fee.
The words “RTI application, complaints against corruption, any affidavit” only re-state the word complaint. And allowing citizen to file YES on complaints is only so that if 10000 citizens have same complaint then all 10000 need not go to Collector’s office and pay Rs 20 per page – only one person needs to go to Collector’s office and rest can submit same complaint by paying mere Rs 3 to local Talati or Patwari’s office. So clause-2 is a re-statement of clause-1.
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1.6 More about clause-1 of RTI2
The clause-1 of RTI2 reads as “The President hereby orders Collector that : if a woman voter or dalit voter or senior citizen voter or poor voter or farmer voter or ANY citizen-voter in his district submits a complaint ….“ – Why write woman voter, dalit voter, poor voter when just writing any voter would have sufficed? Because if anyone opposes clause-1, then an RTI2 supporter can portray him as anti-woman, anti-dalit, anti-poor, anti-farmer etc . And a large number of activist leaders in India have specialized as saviors of women, dalits, tribal, poors etc. and these if these activist leaders oppose clause-1 of RTI2, then pro-RTI2 supporter can label then as anti-woman, anti-dalit etc. This will enable RTI2 supporters to ensure their silence.
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1.7 Is that all?
Yes, that’s all about RTI2. Nothing more. So now the question is : how can such a mere 3 line law solve daunting problem of poverty? How can it solve equally tough problems like corruption in policemen/judges? And many problems as I claim?
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1.8 So how does RTI2 GN reduce poverty within 3-4 months?
When I said that three line law can reduce poverty, corruption and MNC-domination in 4 months, you must have taken it as a lie and a joke and I wont blame you. And now after reading these three lines, you must be more puzzled that how can such innocent looking three lines bring any change? After all, all RTI2 says is – let people put their complain on the website of Prime Minister if they want. What change can complaint posting alone can bring?
The day PM prints this RTI2 in Gazette, I or someone from RRG will submit about 200 affidavits. The drafts of all these affidavits are on my website rahulmehta.com and drafts and brief description of some of the affidavits is given in this manifesto. The first affidavit is what I call as MRCM – Mineral Royalties for Citizens and Military.
MRCM is a 7-8 page proposed Gazette Notification listed in chap-6 titled as “Mineral Royalties for Citizens”. The MRCM draft creates an administrative system by which each citizen of India directly gets mineral royalties and land rents from GoI plots. E.g. Say in Nov-2010, the mineral royalties and land rent from GoI plots was Rs 60000 cr. Then as per the proposed MRCM law, Rs 20000 cr will go towards Military. And from rest Rs 40000 cr, each citizen will get about Rs 400 deposited in his local post office account or local SBI account. Is distributing cash to 75 cr citizen-voters too complicated? No, it is not. If each of the adult citizen of India visits bank or post office once a month to withdraw the cash, only about 100,000 clerks will be needed. Is 100,000 clerk a too big a number? No. Existing SBI has staff of over 300,000 and all PSU banks together have staff of over 600,000. So the staff needed to support MRCM-draft is not very large. The proposed MRCM Gazette Notification has Right to Recall Chief Officer built into it to ensure least corruption. Each and every detail is given the 7-8 page draft mentioned later in chapter-6.
Now I will ask some questions to the reader. Please read rest of the chapter only after answering these question as they come. Background information for the question is as follows :
Please read further ONLY after answering the above question. I will re-ask the question : How many of these 55 crore citizen-voters who barely make Rs 50 per day will say – I do not want this Rs 400 per person per month or whatever may be the amount and let this money go into GoI account?
My answer is – less than 2% will say that he does not want this Rs 400 per person per month. So most of the citizens in bottom 55 crores of the 75 crore adult citizens will have one main thought --- what do I lose? only Rs 3/- (see clause-2.1 of RTI2 draft) and nothing more. And if luck favors, I may actually get Rs 400 per person per month. What is your answer to this first question? How many citizens in bottom 55 cr IYO will say that I don’t want this mineral royalty money?
Now I have another question to you. The background information for question is as follows :
Please re-read the clause-3 of the RTI2 draft. The clause clearly says ----
Clause-3 : This RTI2 GN is not a referendum procedure. The Yes-No count will not be a binding on PM, CMs, officers, judges etc. If over 37 crore women voters, dalit voters, senior citizen voters, poor voters, farmer voters or ANY 37 crore citizen-voters register Yes on a given affidavit, then the PM may or need not take necessary action on the RTI application affidavit ; or the PM may or need not resign. PM’s decision will be final
So clause-3 of RTI2 implies that even if all 75 cr citizen-voters submit YES on an affidavit, then also the PM is not at all required to put the proposed affidavit the Gazette. But no PM I can think of will ever dare to defy 55 cr citizen voters. So my answer is – PM will put the proposed MRCM draft in Gazette. Each citizen who has registered YES knows that he has 55 crore fellow citizens supporting his demand, and so each will confront PM openly thru means he sees legitimate. And PM knows that citizens will agitate and he also knows that his 15 lakh policemen cant stop crores of citizen. And if some citizen decide to follow non-violent ways adopted by Bhagat Singh, Madanlal Dhingra or Udham Singh, then even 50 lakh bodyguards will be insufficient to protect PM. So PM out of fears will not dare to defy so many citizens. So within 1-2 months after RTI2 is printed in Gazette, the citizens will be able to force PM to print MRCM-draft in the Gazette. And within 1-2 months after MRCM-draft is printed in Gazette, the citizens will start getting mineral royalties and land rent from GoI plots, and thus poverty will reduce. Later, the wealth tax reforms suggested will increase industrial production and remove poverty completely These tax reforms are enumerated chap-25 in this book rahulmehta.com/301.pdf
This is where power of RTI2-draft comes. RTI2-draft doesn’t reduce poverty by itself. But without RTI2-draft in Gazette, PM will never ever print MRCM-GN because he and MPs want to eat away mineral royalty. But if RTI2 comes, PM will be compelled to put MRCM-draft in Gazette in 2-3 months. So how is RTI2 making difference? RTI2’s clause-2 allows citizen to register YES on a draft submitted in clause-1. And the same clause-2.1 also tells citizens that crores of citizens are with him. It becomes easy for citizens to bring change when crores have agreed, and these crores of citizens know that crores are with them. They will not feel alone --- they will feel each other’s support. Just as a person is more powerful in mob, RTI2 makes citizen-voters more powerful when majority’s agreement has been proven.
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1.9 How will crores of citizens come to know that MRCM affidavit has been submitted?
I will first describe a real event. In around year 2002, GoI made a scheme that every senior citizen whose income is below Rs 50000 a year will get Rs 200 per month. GoI did not advertise the scheme in TV, newspaper, radio anywhere. Yet, within a short span of say 9-10 months, almost every senior citizen who was eligible was enrolled in the scheme. How did the word spread? When something is in immediate, personal and direct interest, the words spreads like electric current.
Once citizens force PM to print RTI2 in the Gazette, and once MRCM affidavit is filed -- because MRCM is in direct, immediate and personal interest, the information on MRCM affidavit will spread equally fast. The task a citizen has to do is --- only visit Patwari’s office for 10-15 minutes and pay Rs 3 fee and once the system comes on SMS it becomes a few seconds and 5 paise. And since MRCM is in his direct and immediate interest, he will tell as many neighbors, relatives, friends etc about it. This is how word on MRCM affidavit will reach crores of citizens in few days.
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1.10 How does RTI2 law reduce corruption in police?
Now my third question to the reader is : Why is corruption in US policemen low? The one and only one reason why corruption in US police is low is because citizens in US have procedure to expel District Police Commissioner of their district. So the District Police Commissioners in US take very less bribes and also ensure that their junior staff doesn’t take too much bribes. If a Police Commissioner in US comes to know that his junior staff is taking bribes, he will immediately run a sting operation, gather evidences and gets them expelled. Because he fears that if corruption in junior staff increases, the citizens may expel him. But in India, citizens have NO procedure to expel Police Chief. And so the Police Chief not only collects bribes, he asks his juniors to collect maximal bribes as well. A typical Police Commissioner keeps half of what he collects from his juniors and passes the remaining half to MLAs, Home Minister and CM. I explained this the chap-2 of this book.
Now I have prepared a draft of a proposed Gazette Notification in chap-22, which will create a procedure by which the citizens of district will be able to replace the District Police Commissioner, if they want. I call this draft as Right to Recall Police Commissioner. The draft is 100% consistent with each of the 33 dozen Articles of our Constitution and all our existing laws. The draft for right to Recall District Police Chief is given in chap-22 in this book.
Now my forth question to the reader is : Will any existing CM of India, be Sheela Dixit or Modi or Mamta Banerjee or Karunanidhi ever sign a law enabling citizens to replace District Police Commissioner today? My guess is : NO. Because if citizens get procedure to expel District Police Commissioner, then the Commissioner will get scared and will reduce his bribe collection from Rs 1 crore per month to mere Rs 1 lakh per month. And in that case, the hafta Police Commissioner gives to MLAs, Home Minister and Chief Minister will also fall from Rs 50 lakh a month to mere Rs 50,000 per month. And so MLA, CM etc as of now will refuse to print Gazette Notification that would allow us commons to replace District Police Commissioner.
But the situation changes after citizens force PM to print proposed RTI2-draft in the Gazette. After that, someone can submit an affidavit with draft of Right to Recall District Police Commissioner. Most citizens will think “if this Right to Recall District Police Commissioner reduces the corruption in police even by 5%, my Rs 3 is well spent”. And the biggest reason that will motivate citizens to register YES on DPC-RP is hatred against corruption in policemen, who make lakhs of rupees a months, while a common man barely makes a few thousand a month after hard labor. So again, if 70% to 80% of citizens of a State register YES using clause-2 of RTI2, the CM out of fear will mellow down, lose all his bravado and will sign DPC-RP law. The fear of losing job is Supreme in a govt. officer or a judge. So within 14 days after citizens get procedure to expel District Police Commissioner, the corruption in Police Commissioner as well as other policemen will reduce by over 99%. Thus within 3 months after RTI2 passes, corruption in policemen will become near-zero.
The Right to Recall Police Chief. is just beginning. Next comes recall procedures by which we commons can replace PM, CM, MLAs, MPs, High Court Chief judge, Supreme Court Chief judges, Reserve Bank Governor, State Bank Chairman, District Education Office, Mayor and officials at 150 positions at National, State and District levels. Which recall law do you think citizens will oppose? My answer is : NONE. So after RTI2 passes, chances are very high that within 6 months citizens will force PM to enact replacement procedures over 251 positions. And so corruption in all these positions will end for good.
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1.11 Asking CM to sign State level RTI2-draft
1. (procedure for District Collector or his clerk) The Governor hereby orders the Collector that : if a woman voter or dalit voter or senior citizen voter or poor voter or farmer voter or ANY citizen-voter submits a Right to Information application or complaint against corruption or any affidavit to the Collector and requests to be put on the website of the Chief Minister, the Collector or his clerk will issue a serial number and put the affidavit on the website of the Chief Minister for a fee of Rs 20 per page.
2. (procedure for Talati, Patwari, Village Officer or his clerk) The Governor hereby orders the Patwari that :
(2.1) if a woman voter or a dalit voter or a senior citizen voter or a poor voter or a farmer voter or ANY citizen-voter comes with voter ID, and specifies Yes-No on an RTI application, complaint or any affidavit submitted in cluase-1, the Talati will enter his Yes-No on the CM’s website with his voter-ID and give a printed receipt for Rs 3 fee.
(2.2) The Talati will also allow citizen to change his Yes-No for Rs 3 fee.
(2.3) The fee will be Re 1 for BPL card holder
3 (note to all Citizens, Officers, Ministers …) This is not a referendum procedure. The Yes-No count will not be a binding on PM, CMs, officers, judges etc. If over XXX crores women voters, dalit voters, senior citizen voters, poor voters, farmer voters or ANY XXX crore citizen-voters register Yes on a given affidavit, then the CM may or need not take necessary action on the RTI application affidavit ; or the CM may or need not resign. CM’s decision will be final.
XXX in the above draft is equal to 51% of voter population in that State.
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1.13 Draft of RTI2 at District Panchayat Level
I request all citizens of India to force the Adhyaksh of their District Panchayats to sign the following resolution after getting it passed from District Panchayat :
1. (procedure for District Collector or his clerk) The Panchayat hereby asks DC that : if a woman voter or dalit voter or senior citizen voter or poor voter ANY citizen-voter submits a RTI application or complaint against corruption or any affidavit to the Municipal Commissioner and demands to be put on the website of the Mayor, the clerk will issue a serial number and put it on Mayor’s website for a fee of Rs 20 per page.
2. (procedure for Patwari or Talati or VO or his clerk) The Panchayat hereby asks Patwari that
(2.1) if a woman voter or a dalit voter or a poor voter or ANY citizen-voter comes with voter ID, and specifies Yes-No on an RTI application, complaint or any affidavit submitted in cluase-1, the Patwari will enter his Yes-No on the Collector’s website with his voter-ID and give a printed receipt for Rs 3 fee.
(2.2) The clerk will also allow citizen to change his Yes-No for Rs 3 fee.
(2.3) The fee will be Re 1 for BPL card holder
3. The Yes-No count will not be a binding on Mayor or officers etc. The Adhyaksh may or need not take necessary action on the RTI application affidavit ; or the Mayor or may or need not resign. Decision of Adhyaksh will be final.
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1.14 Bringing RTI2 law via PIL
One useful thing about RTI2 is its simplicity and flexibility – that it can be placed as legislation or GN or even as a PIL. Those who are PIL-enthusiastic can file a PIL to get RTI2 law enacted. The PIL applicant can ask the HCj to issue following order
1. (procedure for Registrar of District Court) The High Court hereby orders the Registrar of District Courts that : if a woman voter or dalit voter or senior citizen voter or poor voter or farmer voter or ANY citizen-voter can submit a PIL application in High Court with an affidavit for a fee of Rs 20 per page, and the District Court Registrar will put the affidavit on the website of the High Court.
2. (procedure for Talati aka Patwari aka Village Officer) The High Court orders every Talati (Patwari) that : if a woman voter or a dalit voter or a senior citizen voter or a poor voter or a farmer voter or ANY citizen-voter comes with voter ID, and specifies Yes-No on an PIL posted on the website of High Court, then the Talati or his clerk will enter his Yes-No on the website of High ourt with his voter-ID and give a printed receipt for Rs 3 fee. The Clerk will also allow citizen to change his Yes-No for Rs 3 fee. The fee will be Re 1 for BPL card holder
3. (note to all Citizens) This is not a referendum procedure. The Yes-No count will not be a binding on PM, CMs, officers, judges etc.
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One can enter a PIL asking Honorable High Court Justice (or a Supreme Court Justice) to issue an order to the Registrars of The District Courts and Talati as above. If any HC or SC Justice passes the order as mentioned above, then within 4 months, the poverty will reduce and corruption in police, court, education etc will become near zero.
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1.15 How to denigrate leaders, intellectuals who oppose RTI2
So all in all, RTI2 says nothing more or less than : please allow a citizen if he wants to put his grievances on the website of Prime Minister.
Now if a leader or an intellectual opposes clause-1 of RTI2 draft on any grounds, pro-RTI2 activist like myself can abuse that leader, intellectual in public by saying : you don’t want woman voter, dalit voter. poor voter, senior citizen voter, farmer, labor etc to even have his complaint on the website of Prime Minister, eh? And I can further denigrate him by labeling him as anti-woman, anti-dalit, anti-poor, anti-farmer, anti-labor etc. Which is why till date, all intellectuals, leaders etc oppose RTI2-draft, but no intellectuals has ever dared to oppose RTI2-draft in public. So all a pro-RTI2 activist need to do is to ask intellectuals, leaders to give his views on clause-1 to clause-3 of RTI2-draft in public. And the intellectual, leader will start mumbling and fumbling with unease. I would request pro-RTI2 activist to discuss the RTI2 clause-wise. Please ask the intellectual – “why do you refuse to take initiative in letting a complaint of citizens come on the website of Prime Minister?” OR “ why do you oppose clause-1 of RTI2-draft?”. This will put the leader and intellectual on defensive to a point he simply cant defend himself. Later, his silence or refusal to support clause-1 of RTI2 can be used to convince the supporters of that leader, intellectual that that leader, intellectual is an agent of rich. Please note that purpose of having dialogue with a leader, intellectual is not to convince him that RTI2 is good, for an agent of wealthy individuals is never ever going to agree. The purpose of dialogue is to expose the leader, intellectual before his committed followers that the said leader, intellectual is an agent of rich and not a pro-poor, pro-common person. This way, the true-Nationalist, pro-common followers will desert that leader, intellectual and that leader, intellectual will become weaker, and the true- Nationalist and pro-common followers will become supporters of RTI2. So as time goes, those who support RTI2 will increase in number and the intellectuals, leaders who oppose RTI2 will become weaker and weaker. These actions will increase the chances that the PM, CMs will be forced to sign RTI2.
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1.16 How can you help in brining RTI2?
Chap-13 gives a list of 40 small steps which will take you no more than 1 hour a week, zero donations and enable you to help the cause of bringing RTI2, RTR etc drafts in India.
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1.17 Why no one thought of this before?
The reader may ask that if this 3 line RTI2 law-draft can reduce poverty, how come no one thought of it before? And the fact that no one thought of it before --- doesn’t that prove that such law cant exist?
The civilizations have seen many landmark oversights. E.g. Romans and Greeks managed accounts of Empires, made a lot of progress in Geometry and Logic, but could not discover “Zero of Arithmetic”. Likewise, Incas and Maya had made calendars, made palaces, made bridges but had not discovered wheel, the “Zero of Logistics” !! The proposed RTI2 draft is the “Zero of Political Arithmetic”. Just as the Zero of Mathematics remained undiscovered for centuries, it has happened that “Zero of Political Arithmetic” remained undiscovered till now. It need not surprise anyone.
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1.18 How RTI2 is the Zero of Political Arithmetic?
Just as the Zero of Arithmetic simplifies many daunting tasks in Arithmetic, and makes it possible to improve other branches of Maths, same way RTI2 makes it trivially easy to enact many laws such as MRCM, RTR etc. The proposed RTI2 simplifies political task of law-making in the same way zero simplifies basic arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. And just as simplification of addition, subtraction, division, multiplication lead to leaps of progress in other branches of Maths. E.g. Try adding XLVII with XXII . And then try adding 47 with 22 and see how invention of zero (and place value , face value) simplified addition. And in the same way, try multiplying XLVII with XXII, and the multiply 47 with 22. And next divide XLV by IX and then divide 45 by 9. And these are just two digit numbers. Please try some examples of 4-6 digit numbers’ addition, multiplication, subtraction and division with Roman Numerals and then decimals.
RTI2 works same as the way Zero works in arithmetic. It simplifies the task of proving or disproving whether the majority will like or hate a proposal. And thus it simplifies task of controlling officers via citizens. The Politics is not about how ruler will govern the citizens, it is about how citizens can stop rulers from usurping citizens’ wealth. RTI2 simplifies this good politics.
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1.19 More on RTI2 in chap-3
The chap-3 of rahulmehta.com/301.pdf explains how
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1.20 How can YOU help in bringing RTI2 law in India?
Please read chap-13 of this book rahulmehta.com/301.pdf . It has several steps where-in you can spend 4 hours a week and help to bring Right to Recall law-drafts in India.
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1.21 Summary
I have explained how mere 3 line RTI2 law will reduce poverty, corruption in policemen etc. The interested reader is welcome to phone me on 98252-32754 or 98251-27780. And if you like this law, please do sign the petition at petitiononline.com/rti2en . This first small step is extremely important to get this RTI2 law passed. And next, please do read chap-13 . This chapter-13 has list of tasks that an activist can follow by spending no more than 1 hr a week. And if mere 200,000 activists all over India follow this program once a week, India can improve. The list of tasks are mere activities which involve time and no donation gathering at all.
(For index, see notes #301.Index at http://facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150422423416922 )
(A four page version of this chapter written for easy distribution is athttp://rahulmehta.com/001.pdf . And notes 301.003 of this book has more details on this proposed 3 line law. )
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1.1 So is this some joke?
The intellectuals of India have claimed that MNC-owners’ domination, poverty, corruption in police, nepotism in judges, corruption in education etc problems are so difficult that it would take decades of Herculean efforts to reduce these problems. And here comes Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta (myself), and boldly claims that a mere three line proposed Gazette Notification - can reduce MNC domination, poverty and corruption etc and that too within mere 4 months.
And I further boast that the proposed RTI2-GN-draft has no negative side effects, and the proposed RTI2-GN-draft is 100% Constitutional and in synch with all the existing laws. And it doesn’t need a legislation from MPs\MLAs – a Gazette Notification will suffice as proposed RTI2-GN-draft already come under existing powers of PM, CM etc. So now can such a short GN draft so powerful even exist? Most intellectuals of India have refused to accept that such a trivial short law-draft can reduce poverty and corruption even by 1%. Either these intellectuals are all wrong or I am a 200% liar and also a 400% insane joker. You, the reader, can decide, whether the intellectuals are wrong or I am a liar\joker, before or after you decide to read this chapter and next 3 chapters, and have read the intellectuals’ rebuttals against my proposed RTI2 Gazette Notification draft. And I will add more to my claim - the 3 line RTI2 Gazette Notification that I have proposed will do lot more than reducing poverty and corruption in police\courts\education. Within 4-8 months, RTI2-GN will improve Military, ration card system (public distribution system) and ALL depts in Govt. And proposed RTI2 has no negative side effect. If these claim ever turn out to be true, it would be an extremely shameful event for all intellectuals.
So finally, what is this three line proposed RTI2 GN, and how can this RTI2 GN do these tasks and that too within mere 4 months?
And one more question comes is : how do I propose to mobilize activists and citizens to force PM to sign RTI2 draft? On this,
I make a much taller claim. If as small as 200,000 anti-corruption pro-poor anti-MNC activists in India spend one hour a week on the list of 30-40 tiny actions I have mentioned in chap-13, then in less than a year, their actions will create a non-violent mass movement that will force PM to sign the RTI2 law or a law which contains RTI2.
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1.2 What is a Gazette Notification?
One of the most important goal of my RTR Movement is to explain all activists and all citizens of India what is Gazette Notification, and how easy but important it is to print a page in Gazette and thus bring change in Govt. Once activists and citizens has information on Gazette Notification printing process, they will see that changing Govt or changing system is easier than playing with toys.
Gazette Notification aka GN aka Rajpatra is a booklet published by Central Govt and State Govts every month or so and contains orders given by Ministers to Dept Secretaries, District Collectors etc. (Below are two pages of Gazette Notifications show as sample example). If the Government is seen as a computer, then the Gazette is the sole executable code on which it works. If activists want any change in Govt officer’s activities and attitude, they must ask Ministers to put proposed changes in next Gazette Notification and activists need not do anything else but demand change in Gazette. When the proposed drafts come in Gazette, then and then only changes in Govt officers will come. If an activist-leader is demanding change in Govt without detailing Gazette Notification he wants, he is only wasting away citizens’ time and he may be doing so deliberately. So I request all activists to focus on the Gazette Notification drafts for the changes activist-leaders demands).
Sadly very few activists in India know importance of these print-outs named as Gazette Notifications and one goal of mine is to ensure that maximal number of activists and citizens understand importance of GN.’
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1.3 The draft of proposed RTI2 Gazette Notification at National level
The proposed RTI2 GN has only 3 clauses, as follows. Please note that the 3rd clause is a mere declaration. So as such, the proposed RTI2 GN has only 2 operational clauses. I request all citizens of India to ask PM to print following page in Gazette Notification next month.
--- Proposed RTI2 Gazette Notification draft starts ---
1. (procedure for Collector or his clerk) The President hereby orders Collector that : if a woman voter or dalit voter or senior citizen voter or poor voter or farmer voter or ANY citizen-voter in his district submits a Right to Information application or complaint against corruption or any affidavit to the Collector and requests to be put on the website of Prime Minister, the Collector or his designated clerk will issue a serial number and put that affidavit on the website of the Prime Minister for a fee of Rs 20 per page.
2. (procedure for Talati, Patwari, Village Officer or his clerk) The President orders Patwari that :
(2.1) if a woman voter or a dalit voter or a senior citizen voter or a poor voter or a farmer voter or ANY citizen-voter comes with voter ID, and specifies Yes-No on an RTI application, complaint or any affidavit submitted in cluase-1, the Patwari will enter his Yes-No on the PM’s website with his voter-ID and give a printed receipt for Rs 3 fee.
(2.2) The Patwari will also allow citizen to change his Yes-No for Rs 3 fee.
(2.3) The fee will be Re 1 for BPL card holder
(2.4) The Collector may create a system of sending SMS feedback to the voter
(2.5) The Collector may create a system of taking finger-print and picture of the voter and putting it on the receipt.
(2.6) The PM may create a system where by citizens can register YES/NO via ATM using ATM-cards.
(2.7) PM may add means to enable citizens to register YES/NO via SMS
3. (a note to all Citizens, Officers, Ministers …)
(3.1) This RTI2 GN is not a referendum procedure. The Yes-No count will not be a binding on PM, CMs, officers, judges etc. If over 37 crore women voters, dalit voters, senior citizen voters, poor voters, farmer voters or ANY 37 crore citizen-voters register Yes on a given affidavit, then the PM may or need not take necessary action on the affidavit ; may print it in Gazette or the PM may or need not resign. PM’s decision will be final.
(3.2) Further, the Collector may design and propose a system to collect Yes-No in clause-2 over SMS, and implement after approval of PM.
--- Proposed RTI2 Gazette Notification draft ends ---
I summarize the RTI2 law as
- If a citizen wants, then by visiting DC’s office, he can put RTI application on PM’s website.
- If a citizen supports an application, complain etc, then by visiting Talati’s (Patwari etc) office, citizen can register his support to an RTI application etc on PM’s website for a Rs 3/- fee.
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1.4 Do all citizens in India have internet to use this GN? And other questions
Question-1 : Do all citizens have internet to use this proposed RTI2 GN?
Answer : This is the most common wrong question I get on proposed RTI2-GN. I call it wrong question, because the proposed GN does not at all require the citizens to have an internet connection to begin with. Whether the citizen has internet or not, he must visit the Collector’s office in person to submit his complaint or RTI application. And whether he has internet or not, he must visit Talati’s (Lekhpal, Patwari, Village Officer, VO) office in person to register YES on a complaint or affidavit. So internet is not at all required for a citizen to use this law. And even if a person has internet, it would make no difference. So the law can be used by all citizen-voters of India. If he has internet connection, he can read the affidavits with ease. But then so can someone without internet --- he only needs to ask someone who has internet connection.
Question-2 : Wont elitemen purchase the votes?
Answer : Pls glance at clause-2.1. The clause-2.1 of proposed Gazette Notification RTI2 says that any citizen can register YES/NO and it will come on PM’s website and SMS. Now can an elitemen shell out Rs 100 cr and ask 1 cr citizens to register YES? Well, please also glance at clause-2.2. The citizen can change his YES/NO any day. So if an eliteman pays Rs 100 to crores of citizens to file YES , then the next day, nothing stops the citizens from asking for Rs 100 again and Rs 100 next to next day again, or threaten to change YES to NO. Now no eliteman can control crores citizens for even a week even with full army. If elitemen decide to pay Rs 100 every day to crores of citizens, they will run out of money. IOW, clause-2.2 ensures that approvals are unaffordable in RTI2-GN.
Question-3 : What is the cost of RTI2?
Answer : There are two parts – cost borne by private individuals and cost borne by the Government. Eg at the time voting in general elections, some cost borne by candidates, some by the voter (eg expense to travel from home to booth to home) and some by Govt. As per election commission, the voting expense is about Rs 20 per voter, on an average. In RTI2, the expense on Govt is zero, as the person pays Rs 3 fees to register his YES/NO. On one day, a clerk can register YES/NO of over 250 citizens, which will create collection of Rs 750 which is more than enough that pay his salary and all other expenses. So if all 75 crore voters register YES/NO by visit office of Talati, then costs citizens will need to bear will be Rs 225 crores. And when the system comes on SMS and ATM, the cost per YES/NO citizen has to pay reduces to few paise. So even if 75 crore citizens were to file YES using ATM or SMS, the costs will be below few crore rupees only. The cost on Govt is zero because citizen has to pay a small fee to file Yes/No.
For more FAQs , pls see chap-3.
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1.5 A one line summary of RTI2
One line summary of RTI2 is : if a citizen wants, Collector’s clerk will put citizen’s complaint on the website of the Prime Minister for a fee.
The words “RTI application, complaints against corruption, any affidavit” only re-state the word complaint. And allowing citizen to file YES on complaints is only so that if 10000 citizens have same complaint then all 10000 need not go to Collector’s office and pay Rs 20 per page – only one person needs to go to Collector’s office and rest can submit same complaint by paying mere Rs 3 to local Talati or Patwari’s office. So clause-2 is a re-statement of clause-1.
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1.6 More about clause-1 of RTI2
The clause-1 of RTI2 reads as “The President hereby orders Collector that : if a woman voter or dalit voter or senior citizen voter or poor voter or farmer voter or ANY citizen-voter in his district submits a complaint ….“ – Why write woman voter, dalit voter, poor voter when just writing any voter would have sufficed? Because if anyone opposes clause-1, then an RTI2 supporter can portray him as anti-woman, anti-dalit, anti-poor, anti-farmer etc . And a large number of activist leaders in India have specialized as saviors of women, dalits, tribal, poors etc. and these if these activist leaders oppose clause-1 of RTI2, then pro-RTI2 supporter can label then as anti-woman, anti-dalit etc. This will enable RTI2 supporters to ensure their silence.
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1.7 Is that all?
Yes, that’s all about RTI2. Nothing more. So now the question is : how can such a mere 3 line law solve daunting problem of poverty? How can it solve equally tough problems like corruption in policemen/judges? And many problems as I claim?
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1.8 So how does RTI2 GN reduce poverty within 3-4 months?
When I said that three line law can reduce poverty, corruption and MNC-domination in 4 months, you must have taken it as a lie and a joke and I wont blame you. And now after reading these three lines, you must be more puzzled that how can such innocent looking three lines bring any change? After all, all RTI2 says is – let people put their complain on the website of Prime Minister if they want. What change can complaint posting alone can bring?
The day PM prints this RTI2 in Gazette, I or someone from RRG will submit about 200 affidavits. The drafts of all these affidavits are on my website rahulmehta.com and drafts and brief description of some of the affidavits is given in this manifesto. The first affidavit is what I call as MRCM – Mineral Royalties for Citizens and Military.
MRCM is a 7-8 page proposed Gazette Notification listed in chap-6 titled as “Mineral Royalties for Citizens”. The MRCM draft creates an administrative system by which each citizen of India directly gets mineral royalties and land rents from GoI plots. E.g. Say in Nov-2010, the mineral royalties and land rent from GoI plots was Rs 60000 cr. Then as per the proposed MRCM law, Rs 20000 cr will go towards Military. And from rest Rs 40000 cr, each citizen will get about Rs 400 deposited in his local post office account or local SBI account. Is distributing cash to 75 cr citizen-voters too complicated? No, it is not. If each of the adult citizen of India visits bank or post office once a month to withdraw the cash, only about 100,000 clerks will be needed. Is 100,000 clerk a too big a number? No. Existing SBI has staff of over 300,000 and all PSU banks together have staff of over 600,000. So the staff needed to support MRCM-draft is not very large. The proposed MRCM Gazette Notification has Right to Recall Chief Officer built into it to ensure least corruption. Each and every detail is given the 7-8 page draft mentioned later in chapter-6.
Now I will ask some questions to the reader. Please read rest of the chapter only after answering these question as they come. Background information for the question is as follows :
- Say citizens have forced PM to sign RTI2 law.
- Say someone submitted MRCM affidavit which says that mineral royalties and land rent should directly go to citizens
- Now in a later chapter, I have explained how 75 crores citizens of India will come to know about the proposed MRCM affidavit within one month.
- Of the 75 crore adult citizens of India, for the purpose of this question, please consider the economically bottom 80% i.e. economically bottom 55 crore adult citizens of India, who barely make Rs 50 per day
Please read further ONLY after answering the above question. I will re-ask the question : How many of these 55 crore citizen-voters who barely make Rs 50 per day will say – I do not want this Rs 400 per person per month or whatever may be the amount and let this money go into GoI account?
My answer is – less than 2% will say that he does not want this Rs 400 per person per month. So most of the citizens in bottom 55 crores of the 75 crore adult citizens will have one main thought --- what do I lose? only Rs 3/- (see clause-2.1 of RTI2 draft) and nothing more. And if luck favors, I may actually get Rs 400 per person per month. What is your answer to this first question? How many citizens in bottom 55 cr IYO will say that I don’t want this mineral royalty money?
Now I have another question to you. The background information for question is as follows :
- Say citizens have managed to force PM to put RTI2-draft in the Gazette Notification.
- Say someone submitted MRCM affidavit and 50 crore citizens submitted YES on it
Please re-read the clause-3 of the RTI2 draft. The clause clearly says ----
Clause-3 : This RTI2 GN is not a referendum procedure. The Yes-No count will not be a binding on PM, CMs, officers, judges etc. If over 37 crore women voters, dalit voters, senior citizen voters, poor voters, farmer voters or ANY 37 crore citizen-voters register Yes on a given affidavit, then the PM may or need not take necessary action on the RTI application affidavit ; or the PM may or need not resign. PM’s decision will be final
So clause-3 of RTI2 implies that even if all 75 cr citizen-voters submit YES on an affidavit, then also the PM is not at all required to put the proposed affidavit the Gazette. But no PM I can think of will ever dare to defy 55 cr citizen voters. So my answer is – PM will put the proposed MRCM draft in Gazette. Each citizen who has registered YES knows that he has 55 crore fellow citizens supporting his demand, and so each will confront PM openly thru means he sees legitimate. And PM knows that citizens will agitate and he also knows that his 15 lakh policemen cant stop crores of citizen. And if some citizen decide to follow non-violent ways adopted by Bhagat Singh, Madanlal Dhingra or Udham Singh, then even 50 lakh bodyguards will be insufficient to protect PM. So PM out of fears will not dare to defy so many citizens. So within 1-2 months after RTI2 is printed in Gazette, the citizens will be able to force PM to print MRCM-draft in the Gazette. And within 1-2 months after MRCM-draft is printed in Gazette, the citizens will start getting mineral royalties and land rent from GoI plots, and thus poverty will reduce. Later, the wealth tax reforms suggested will increase industrial production and remove poverty completely These tax reforms are enumerated chap-25 in this book rahulmehta.com/301.pdf
This is where power of RTI2-draft comes. RTI2-draft doesn’t reduce poverty by itself. But without RTI2-draft in Gazette, PM will never ever print MRCM-GN because he and MPs want to eat away mineral royalty. But if RTI2 comes, PM will be compelled to put MRCM-draft in Gazette in 2-3 months. So how is RTI2 making difference? RTI2’s clause-2 allows citizen to register YES on a draft submitted in clause-1. And the same clause-2.1 also tells citizens that crores of citizens are with him. It becomes easy for citizens to bring change when crores have agreed, and these crores of citizens know that crores are with them. They will not feel alone --- they will feel each other’s support. Just as a person is more powerful in mob, RTI2 makes citizen-voters more powerful when majority’s agreement has been proven.
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1.9 How will crores of citizens come to know that MRCM affidavit has been submitted?
I will first describe a real event. In around year 2002, GoI made a scheme that every senior citizen whose income is below Rs 50000 a year will get Rs 200 per month. GoI did not advertise the scheme in TV, newspaper, radio anywhere. Yet, within a short span of say 9-10 months, almost every senior citizen who was eligible was enrolled in the scheme. How did the word spread? When something is in immediate, personal and direct interest, the words spreads like electric current.
Once citizens force PM to print RTI2 in the Gazette, and once MRCM affidavit is filed -- because MRCM is in direct, immediate and personal interest, the information on MRCM affidavit will spread equally fast. The task a citizen has to do is --- only visit Patwari’s office for 10-15 minutes and pay Rs 3 fee and once the system comes on SMS it becomes a few seconds and 5 paise. And since MRCM is in his direct and immediate interest, he will tell as many neighbors, relatives, friends etc about it. This is how word on MRCM affidavit will reach crores of citizens in few days.
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1.10 How does RTI2 law reduce corruption in police?
Now my third question to the reader is : Why is corruption in US policemen low? The one and only one reason why corruption in US police is low is because citizens in US have procedure to expel District Police Commissioner of their district. So the District Police Commissioners in US take very less bribes and also ensure that their junior staff doesn’t take too much bribes. If a Police Commissioner in US comes to know that his junior staff is taking bribes, he will immediately run a sting operation, gather evidences and gets them expelled. Because he fears that if corruption in junior staff increases, the citizens may expel him. But in India, citizens have NO procedure to expel Police Chief. And so the Police Chief not only collects bribes, he asks his juniors to collect maximal bribes as well. A typical Police Commissioner keeps half of what he collects from his juniors and passes the remaining half to MLAs, Home Minister and CM. I explained this the chap-2 of this book.
Now I have prepared a draft of a proposed Gazette Notification in chap-22, which will create a procedure by which the citizens of district will be able to replace the District Police Commissioner, if they want. I call this draft as Right to Recall Police Commissioner. The draft is 100% consistent with each of the 33 dozen Articles of our Constitution and all our existing laws. The draft for right to Recall District Police Chief is given in chap-22 in this book.
Now my forth question to the reader is : Will any existing CM of India, be Sheela Dixit or Modi or Mamta Banerjee or Karunanidhi ever sign a law enabling citizens to replace District Police Commissioner today? My guess is : NO. Because if citizens get procedure to expel District Police Commissioner, then the Commissioner will get scared and will reduce his bribe collection from Rs 1 crore per month to mere Rs 1 lakh per month. And in that case, the hafta Police Commissioner gives to MLAs, Home Minister and Chief Minister will also fall from Rs 50 lakh a month to mere Rs 50,000 per month. And so MLA, CM etc as of now will refuse to print Gazette Notification that would allow us commons to replace District Police Commissioner.
But the situation changes after citizens force PM to print proposed RTI2-draft in the Gazette. After that, someone can submit an affidavit with draft of Right to Recall District Police Commissioner. Most citizens will think “if this Right to Recall District Police Commissioner reduces the corruption in police even by 5%, my Rs 3 is well spent”. And the biggest reason that will motivate citizens to register YES on DPC-RP is hatred against corruption in policemen, who make lakhs of rupees a months, while a common man barely makes a few thousand a month after hard labor. So again, if 70% to 80% of citizens of a State register YES using clause-2 of RTI2, the CM out of fear will mellow down, lose all his bravado and will sign DPC-RP law. The fear of losing job is Supreme in a govt. officer or a judge. So within 14 days after citizens get procedure to expel District Police Commissioner, the corruption in Police Commissioner as well as other policemen will reduce by over 99%. Thus within 3 months after RTI2 passes, corruption in policemen will become near-zero.
The Right to Recall Police Chief. is just beginning. Next comes recall procedures by which we commons can replace PM, CM, MLAs, MPs, High Court Chief judge, Supreme Court Chief judges, Reserve Bank Governor, State Bank Chairman, District Education Office, Mayor and officials at 150 positions at National, State and District levels. Which recall law do you think citizens will oppose? My answer is : NONE. So after RTI2 passes, chances are very high that within 6 months citizens will force PM to enact replacement procedures over 251 positions. And so corruption in all these positions will end for good.
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1.11 Asking CM to sign State level RTI2-draft
1. (procedure for District Collector or his clerk) The Governor hereby orders the Collector that : if a woman voter or dalit voter or senior citizen voter or poor voter or farmer voter or ANY citizen-voter submits a Right to Information application or complaint against corruption or any affidavit to the Collector and requests to be put on the website of the Chief Minister, the Collector or his clerk will issue a serial number and put the affidavit on the website of the Chief Minister for a fee of Rs 20 per page.
2. (procedure for Talati, Patwari, Village Officer or his clerk) The Governor hereby orders the Patwari that :
(2.1) if a woman voter or a dalit voter or a senior citizen voter or a poor voter or a farmer voter or ANY citizen-voter comes with voter ID, and specifies Yes-No on an RTI application, complaint or any affidavit submitted in cluase-1, the Talati will enter his Yes-No on the CM’s website with his voter-ID and give a printed receipt for Rs 3 fee.
(2.2) The Talati will also allow citizen to change his Yes-No for Rs 3 fee.
(2.3) The fee will be Re 1 for BPL card holder
3 (note to all Citizens, Officers, Ministers …) This is not a referendum procedure. The Yes-No count will not be a binding on PM, CMs, officers, judges etc. If over XXX crores women voters, dalit voters, senior citizen voters, poor voters, farmer voters or ANY XXX crore citizen-voters register Yes on a given affidavit, then the CM may or need not take necessary action on the RTI application affidavit ; or the CM may or need not resign. CM’s decision will be final.
XXX in the above draft is equal to 51% of voter population in that State.
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1.13 Draft of RTI2 at District Panchayat Level
I request all citizens of India to force the Adhyaksh of their District Panchayats to sign the following resolution after getting it passed from District Panchayat :
1. (procedure for District Collector or his clerk) The Panchayat hereby asks DC that : if a woman voter or dalit voter or senior citizen voter or poor voter ANY citizen-voter submits a RTI application or complaint against corruption or any affidavit to the Municipal Commissioner and demands to be put on the website of the Mayor, the clerk will issue a serial number and put it on Mayor’s website for a fee of Rs 20 per page.
2. (procedure for Patwari or Talati or VO or his clerk) The Panchayat hereby asks Patwari that
(2.1) if a woman voter or a dalit voter or a poor voter or ANY citizen-voter comes with voter ID, and specifies Yes-No on an RTI application, complaint or any affidavit submitted in cluase-1, the Patwari will enter his Yes-No on the Collector’s website with his voter-ID and give a printed receipt for Rs 3 fee.
(2.2) The clerk will also allow citizen to change his Yes-No for Rs 3 fee.
(2.3) The fee will be Re 1 for BPL card holder
3. The Yes-No count will not be a binding on Mayor or officers etc. The Adhyaksh may or need not take necessary action on the RTI application affidavit ; or the Mayor or may or need not resign. Decision of Adhyaksh will be final.
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1.14 Bringing RTI2 law via PIL
One useful thing about RTI2 is its simplicity and flexibility – that it can be placed as legislation or GN or even as a PIL. Those who are PIL-enthusiastic can file a PIL to get RTI2 law enacted. The PIL applicant can ask the HCj to issue following order
1. (procedure for Registrar of District Court) The High Court hereby orders the Registrar of District Courts that : if a woman voter or dalit voter or senior citizen voter or poor voter or farmer voter or ANY citizen-voter can submit a PIL application in High Court with an affidavit for a fee of Rs 20 per page, and the District Court Registrar will put the affidavit on the website of the High Court.
2. (procedure for Talati aka Patwari aka Village Officer) The High Court orders every Talati (Patwari) that : if a woman voter or a dalit voter or a senior citizen voter or a poor voter or a farmer voter or ANY citizen-voter comes with voter ID, and specifies Yes-No on an PIL posted on the website of High Court, then the Talati or his clerk will enter his Yes-No on the website of High ourt with his voter-ID and give a printed receipt for Rs 3 fee. The Clerk will also allow citizen to change his Yes-No for Rs 3 fee. The fee will be Re 1 for BPL card holder
3. (note to all Citizens) This is not a referendum procedure. The Yes-No count will not be a binding on PM, CMs, officers, judges etc.
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One can enter a PIL asking Honorable High Court Justice (or a Supreme Court Justice) to issue an order to the Registrars of The District Courts and Talati as above. If any HC or SC Justice passes the order as mentioned above, then within 4 months, the poverty will reduce and corruption in police, court, education etc will become near zero.
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1.15 How to denigrate leaders, intellectuals who oppose RTI2
So all in all, RTI2 says nothing more or less than : please allow a citizen if he wants to put his grievances on the website of Prime Minister.
Now if a leader or an intellectual opposes clause-1 of RTI2 draft on any grounds, pro-RTI2 activist like myself can abuse that leader, intellectual in public by saying : you don’t want woman voter, dalit voter. poor voter, senior citizen voter, farmer, labor etc to even have his complaint on the website of Prime Minister, eh? And I can further denigrate him by labeling him as anti-woman, anti-dalit, anti-poor, anti-farmer, anti-labor etc. Which is why till date, all intellectuals, leaders etc oppose RTI2-draft, but no intellectuals has ever dared to oppose RTI2-draft in public. So all a pro-RTI2 activist need to do is to ask intellectuals, leaders to give his views on clause-1 to clause-3 of RTI2-draft in public. And the intellectual, leader will start mumbling and fumbling with unease. I would request pro-RTI2 activist to discuss the RTI2 clause-wise. Please ask the intellectual – “why do you refuse to take initiative in letting a complaint of citizens come on the website of Prime Minister?” OR “ why do you oppose clause-1 of RTI2-draft?”. This will put the leader and intellectual on defensive to a point he simply cant defend himself. Later, his silence or refusal to support clause-1 of RTI2 can be used to convince the supporters of that leader, intellectual that that leader, intellectual is an agent of rich. Please note that purpose of having dialogue with a leader, intellectual is not to convince him that RTI2 is good, for an agent of wealthy individuals is never ever going to agree. The purpose of dialogue is to expose the leader, intellectual before his committed followers that the said leader, intellectual is an agent of rich and not a pro-poor, pro-common person. This way, the true-Nationalist, pro-common followers will desert that leader, intellectual and that leader, intellectual will become weaker, and the true- Nationalist and pro-common followers will become supporters of RTI2. So as time goes, those who support RTI2 will increase in number and the intellectuals, leaders who oppose RTI2 will become weaker and weaker. These actions will increase the chances that the PM, CMs will be forced to sign RTI2.
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1.16 How can you help in brining RTI2?
Chap-13 gives a list of 40 small steps which will take you no more than 1 hour a week, zero donations and enable you to help the cause of bringing RTI2, RTR etc drafts in India.
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1.17 Why no one thought of this before?
The reader may ask that if this 3 line RTI2 law-draft can reduce poverty, how come no one thought of it before? And the fact that no one thought of it before --- doesn’t that prove that such law cant exist?
The civilizations have seen many landmark oversights. E.g. Romans and Greeks managed accounts of Empires, made a lot of progress in Geometry and Logic, but could not discover “Zero of Arithmetic”. Likewise, Incas and Maya had made calendars, made palaces, made bridges but had not discovered wheel, the “Zero of Logistics” !! The proposed RTI2 draft is the “Zero of Political Arithmetic”. Just as the Zero of Mathematics remained undiscovered for centuries, it has happened that “Zero of Political Arithmetic” remained undiscovered till now. It need not surprise anyone.
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1.18 How RTI2 is the Zero of Political Arithmetic?
Just as the Zero of Arithmetic simplifies many daunting tasks in Arithmetic, and makes it possible to improve other branches of Maths, same way RTI2 makes it trivially easy to enact many laws such as MRCM, RTR etc. The proposed RTI2 simplifies political task of law-making in the same way zero simplifies basic arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. And just as simplification of addition, subtraction, division, multiplication lead to leaps of progress in other branches of Maths. E.g. Try adding XLVII with XXII . And then try adding 47 with 22 and see how invention of zero (and place value , face value) simplified addition. And in the same way, try multiplying XLVII with XXII, and the multiply 47 with 22. And next divide XLV by IX and then divide 45 by 9. And these are just two digit numbers. Please try some examples of 4-6 digit numbers’ addition, multiplication, subtraction and division with Roman Numerals and then decimals.
RTI2 works same as the way Zero works in arithmetic. It simplifies the task of proving or disproving whether the majority will like or hate a proposal. And thus it simplifies task of controlling officers via citizens. The Politics is not about how ruler will govern the citizens, it is about how citizens can stop rulers from usurping citizens’ wealth. RTI2 simplifies this good politics.
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1.19 More on RTI2 in chap-3
The chap-3 of rahulmehta.com/301.pdf explains how
- how RTI2 makes PM’s website the least dishonest media and far more powerful media than all existing newspapers, TV-channels put togethe
- how cost of filing YES-NO reduces from Rs 3 to 5 paise when secure SMS come
- how time needed to file YES-NO reduces from 15 minutes to few seconds with secure SMS
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1.20 How can YOU help in bringing RTI2 law in India?
Please read chap-13 of this book rahulmehta.com/301.pdf . It has several steps where-in you can spend 4 hours a week and help to bring Right to Recall law-drafts in India.
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1.21 Summary
I have explained how mere 3 line RTI2 law will reduce poverty, corruption in policemen etc. The interested reader is welcome to phone me on 98252-32754 or 98251-27780. And if you like this law, please do sign the petition at petitiononline.com/rti2en . This first small step is extremely important to get this RTI2 law passed. And next, please do read chap-13 . This chapter-13 has list of tasks that an activist can follow by spending no more than 1 hr a week. And if mere 200,000 activists all over India follow this program once a week, India can improve. The list of tasks are mere activities which involve time and no donation gathering at all.
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