Corruption related ...

For a long time I thought that corruption in India cannot be reduced. But recently, probably after reading The Undercover Economist, I realized that with proper changes to laws, anything can be achieved. This was a source of great hope as well as great frustration. Great hope because, I understood that solutions do exist, for e.g. Dr JP's bill below is a solution. Great frustration because, I thought that there will never be any political will to pass such bills. But I read today about the Bihar bill and my hopes are up again because that bill has been passed in both houses of Bihar and is awaiting action at Center.

I am not sure if the Bihar bill is as comprehensive (read 'applies to politicians also') or not as Dr. JP's bill.

I'd like to follow the progress of this bill and other related corruption bills in this post.

About Bihar bill -
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article9964.ece
http://vigilance.bih.nic.in/docs/Bihar-Special-Court-Bill-2009-EN.pdf
Excerpt -

The Bihar bill, which provides for confiscation of assets of public servants accumulated by them beyond their known sources of income, has been pending with the Centre for over five months.

Links to Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan's efforts -
http://www.peopleforloksatta.org/activities/promoting-anti-corruption-bill
Link to the Ammendment itself - http://www.loksatta.org/cms/documents/advocacy/corruption.pdf

To do - compare Bihar's bill with Dr JP's bill.

Related -

Nepal bans airline staff pockets - Staff at Nepal's main international airport are to be issued with trousers without pockets, in an attempt to wipe out rampant bribe-taking.