Sunday, September 04, 2011

For a Better Governance, a Better Democracy

A democracy can work if every citizen posesses a perfect information.

Here are few of the tools that I would like to share, which I believe if everyone starts using - this democracy will move from being a group of several anarches headed by MPs to a real democracy:

# Know your MLAs and MPs, and communicate with them:
http://www.mpmla.in/

This website is an unbiased effort to facilitate communication between people and their respective MPs/MLAs in India. The people can put across their grievance/appreciation to their MP/MLA and the MP/MLA can choose to respond and address the issue. We hold no bias and no political affiliation what so ever.

#Information about the Educational qualifications, Assets/Liabilities, Criminal Cases for MPs in LS & RS:
http://myneta.info/

This is basically digitized data from affidavits submitted by candidates in Parliamentary and State Assembly elections.

#http://adrindia.org/About-Us/Content/about-adr.html

Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) was established in August 1999 by a group of Professors from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. It started working on building fair and transparent electoral and political processes in the country by filing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in August 1999 in the Delhi High Court asking for mandatory disclosure of criminal, financial and educational background of candidates contesting elections to the Parliament and State Legislatures, prior to the polls. In November 2000, ADR got its first achievement when the Delhi High Court gave its judgment in favor of ADR.

# Election Results, Candidate lists, Cabinet of Ministers List, Information on General & Assembly Elections:

http://www.indian-elections.com/

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