Opinion Drawing the line
It was good to read Kapil Sibals statement that civil society will not be invited to draft laws.
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Drawing the line
It was good to read Kapil Sibals statement that civil society will not be invited to draft laws (Sibal says no more civil society in drafting laws,IE,June 27). But things wouldnt have come to this pass for the Lokpal bill if successive governments hadnt let the draft lie in the backburner. It was the indifference of parliamentarians that compelled someone like Anna Hazare to take steps to accelerate the process to curb corruption. If legislators function in a manner that voters expect them to,where is the need for interference from civil society? After Sibals statement,there is one more thing to be decided whether the National Advisory Council should be classified as civil society or not.
G.M. Paranjpe
PMs call
Both Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev,who had separately launched their crusades against corruption,are now threatening to revive their agitations to force the government to accept their demands. The need of the hour is for the government,the opposition parties and other stakeholders to come together and find a way out of the present impasse. The prime minister should step forward and give the lead. The first step in this direction may be an address to the nation on what has happened to date and how he proposes to proceed.
R.J. Khurana
Read the riot act
The National Advisory Councils draft of the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill,which seeks to protect minorities from brutality and bloodshed during communal riots,is drawing flak not only from the main opposition party,the BJP,that has termed it communal propaganda,but also from eminent jurists (Justices Verma and Srikrishna red-flag NAC draft anti-communal violence Bill,IE,June 26). They have a point. Instead of enacting new legislation,the need of the hour is to identify the lacunae in present laws and make amendments accordingly. We should be bothering more about the prevention of communal riots than tagging perpetrators as from majority and minority communities.
Pachu Menon
Goa
Tech support
The report Compulsory referrals,but no Hawk-Eye (IE,June 28) points to the BCCIs distrust of technology. The Decision Review System and the Hawk-Eye helped India during the World Cup,and top players,including Sachin Tendulkar,have been beneficiaries of the system. Little wonder they too are in favour of the technology. What the BCCI seems to forget is that umpires too can make errors. While technology is not foolproof,it can assist in making correct decisions. Hawk-Eye is a ball-tracking method and if the authorities feel that pitch conditions and a couple of other variables need to be taken into account to arrive at a correct decision,why not incorporate the same in the software?
S.N. Kabra
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