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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

To show insubordinate public servants their real position Activists seek Anna Hazare’s support

Bureaucrats never allowed democracy to flourish in this country. And hence common person, the real owner of this country always remained deprived of his legitimate rights. They confiscated common person’s rights in hand in gloves with people’s representatives. They have forgotten that they are servants of citizens of India. To make realize their real positon members of “Mahiti Adhikar Katta”  have decided to write “public servant” or its abbreviation P.S before or instead of H’ble , Mr. or Mrs. while writing to any public servant. Katta members communicated this to Anna Hazare yesterday. 

Yesterday ( 15th June ) members of RTI katta extended birth day greeting to legendary social worker Anna Hazare at Ralegan siddhi. Activists informed him about new initiative they have taken to show their place to insubordinate public servants. (Reproduced below is letter written to Anna Hazare).Anna frankly spoke to activists present. Anna’s aid Datta  Awari informed them about living History of transformation Ralegan Siddhi, Janlokapal andolan and Anna’s life “ Media center” . This media center is amazing, once you watch it, nothing remain to ask about Anna’s extraordinary work. You become speechless.

Here is letter written to Anna

H’ble Anna

The conference of chief ministers held on 24 may 1997, recognized that as the country completed 50 years of independence and as the people were assailed by growing doubts about the accountability, effectiveness and moral standards of administration and hence  , central and state governments should move together to justify the trust of faith of the people in the government by taking up the implementation of the action plan

The conference also resolved that the central and state governments would work together to concretize the Action Plan dealing with the following themes

I. Accountable and citizen-friendly Government

II. Transparency and Right to Information and

III. Improving the performance and integrity of the public service.

Citizens’ Charter, Redressal of Public Grievances, Peoples Participation, Decentralization and Devolution of Powers,


In order to carry forward the Action plan for immediate as well as long term improvement in administration, it was decided to set up a Committee under the Cabinet Secretary including some of the Chief Secretaries representing the different regions of the country as well as some senior officials of Government of India

The states welcomed the initiatives by the Prime Minister towards more effective and responsive administration and stated that these initiatives are important and timely.

There after central and state governments introduced so many so called pro people legislations that too because of pressure from noted activists like you. But outcome was zero. Because there was lot of difference in what was written in the laws and actual situation on ground zero. Even if some pro people legislations were introduced they made sure that those will not be implemented properly. And hence you will see lot of former bureaucrats occupied most of the authorities after retirement.


Politicians and babus never tried to earn citizens faith back, they just eye washed it. The real culprit in this process was bureaucracy. Babudom is not willing to loosen its grip on the neck of democracy. It is not ready to decentralize powers. Hence even 18 years after all chief ministers’ resolution in presence of then prime minister things didn’t change.

They never allowed democracy to flourish in this country. And hence common person , the real owner of this country was always remain deprived of his legitimate rights. they confiscated common persons rights in conspiracy with  peoples  representatives.

However, what is the solution to come out of this situation?. Lot needs be done to achieve this. But we can start with small thing. Normally we use abbreviation like h’ble, Mr., Mrs. Etc. while writing to public servants. This has created superiority complex in their mind, and as a result they are not giving any heed to common person’s problems. To overcome this    common person should now start showing Public servant their real place.

If we write P.S for public servant before or instead of other abbreviation like H’ble, Mr. Mrs. Etc., we guess that will definitely make some difference. We don’t want to insult or abuse them but to show their place that they have forgotten. Hence if one who wish may write h”ble P.S or P.S Mr/Mrs etc . We the members of “Mahiti Adhikar Katta” have decided to do so immediately. We request you to support us on this issue.

 As well it is almost 10 years that our parliament passed Right to Information act on 15 June 2015. On 15th June 2005 parliament passed RTI and after that 120 were given to public authorities to comply with section 4 of the said act. But total state of the act in India is miserable. We have planned some events on account of 10th anniversary of RTI act from 15 June to 12th October. We seek your support for this also.


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