Committee to prepare a draft of the Lok Pal Bill by Dr. Manmohan Singh GNS Report.The Government of India has issued a Notification constituting a Joint Drafting Committee to prepare a draft of the Lok Pal Bill.The Joint Drafting Committee shall consist of Five nominee Ministers of the Government of India and Five nominees of Shri Anna Hazare (including himself). The five nominee Ministers of the Government of India are as under:- (i) Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Union Minister of Finance. (ii) Shri P. Chidambaram, Union Minister of Home Affairs. (iii) Dr Veerappa Moily, Union Minister of Law and Justice. (iv) Shri Kapil Sibal, Union Minister of Human Resource and Development and Minister of Communication and Information Technology (v) Shri Salman Khursheed, Union Minister of Water Resources and Minister of Minority Affairs The five nominees of Shri Anna Hazare (including himself) are as under:- (i) Shri Anna Hazare (ii) Shri Justice N. Santosh Hedge (iii) Shri Shanti Bhushan, Senior Advocate (iv) Shri Prashan Bhushan, Advocate (v) Shri Arvind Kejriwal. The Chairperson of the Joint Drafting Committee shall be Shri Pranab Mukherjee. The Co-Chairperson of the Joint Drafting Committee shall be Shri Shanti Bhushan. The Convenor of the Join Drafting Committee shall be Dr M. Veerappa Moily. The Joint Drafting Committee shall commence its work forthwith and evolve its own procedure to prepare the proposed legislation. The Joint Drafting Committee shall complete its work latest by 30th June, 2011. Ministry of Law and Justice ( Legislative Department), Government of India New Delhi, Friday, April 8, 2011/Chaitra 18, 1933
GNS Jammu Feb. 29, : A strange situation which was unfortunately created by an affront by Presiding Officer of J&K Assembly to 4 th Estate has finally been brought to close with media persons ending their protest. Peoples Democratic Party in the wake of this development expresses strong hope that not only will such piquant scenes be avoided. But it should augur well for the relationship of legislature and the media.as the latter ‘s role of public awareness and prevention of abuse in state-functioning cannot be underestimated. In a press statement a party spokesman said that PDP has always stood for free battle of ideas in which media has a significant place and they did not deserve the treatment that they met on publishing received information on alleged scams and misuse of authority by government functionaries and politicians . The spokesman said when media rose against excessive behavior and uncalled for remarks taking a princi...
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