India ranks among the world s top 5 countries in-Cricket

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India ranks among the worlds top 5 countries in-

• Cricket
• Film Industry- Bolly, Tolly, Kolly woods
• Information Technology
• World Beauty Contests
• No. of Millionaires

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Indias rank in Corruption

• Transparency Internationals
• Corruption Perception Index- 85th
• TIs Bribe Payers Index-
• Among 30 Leading Exporting Countries- 30th

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Daily life of a common man?

• Every citizen has to pay an EXTRA fee over the
  Govt fee for every
• service, certificate or process in Govt
  departments
• Pricelist varies across departments and different
  classes of people
• NO BRIBE, NO SERVICE

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What is 5th Pillar?

• 4 Pillars of our Democracy
• Legislative
• Executive
• Judiciary
• Press
• 5th Pillar WE, The Citizens
• Enable, Encourage and Empower Every Citizen
  of India to Eliminate Corruption at all levels of
  Society

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The ZERO Rupee Note.Another
non-cooperation movement

• 2001 - Idea conceived and design created
• 2006 5th Pillar released it at a public event
  and distributed the Zero Rupee Note widely in
  Tamil Nadu, India
• Distributed more than a million copies so far
• Citizens use it in Govt offices where Bribes are
  demanded or work is purposely delayed

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The front.
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and the back
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FREEDOM from CORRUPTION

• Campaign launched in Aug 2007
• Covered all districts of TN, few in AP,
  Karnataka
• 600 plus colleges schools and counting.
• 500, 000 students pledged-
• I will not take or give bribe

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Signing a contract with my nation

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The flag of Freedom
from Corruption
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Taking bribe Stealing or Begging
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Be the change..
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(No Transcript)
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Together, we can..
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I will neither receive or pay a bribe
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I love India.
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ZeroCurrency.org

• Zero Currency website (www.zerocurrency.org )
• to encourage and propagate the idea in other
  countries
• Downloadable Zero currency images of respective
  countries based on the Zero rupee design

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Right to Information(RTI) Training

• RTI Act 2005 Salient features
• Public Information Officer (PIO)
• Appellate Authority
• Chief Information Commissioner (CIC)
• How to file RTI?
• Framing the right questions
• Escalation procedures
• Media Pressure

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Upcoming programs.

• RTI Training/Service Centers in rural areas
• Freedom from Corruption campaigns in more
  colleges of more states
• Zero Rupee Note MELA on 9th Dec 09 (International
  Anti-corruption Day)
• Mass distribution(100,000 in each district)

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2010- Rural Service Centers to be launched

• Address Grievances
• Draft and File RTI petitions
• Follow up and Escalation- Information commission

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Citizens Handbook Know Your Rights

• Informed citizenry to tackle corruption
• Procedure, Timeline, Fee Structure and Escalation
  Process
• Volunteers working on gathering relevant but
  concise data to provide in ready reckoner form.

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Zero Rupee Note (ZRN)

• Printed and distributed ONLY 1,000,000 so far.
• Population of 1.1 billion plus
• Average of 4-5 members/family
• 250 million copies of ZRN

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Can We achieve our goal ?

• Yes . WE CAN.
• A Nation suffers not because of the rascals, but
  due to the silence of the good people
• Lets break the silence..

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5th PILLAR
ENDcorruption_at_5thpillar.org Fax 1 202
318 8948 www.5thpillar.org VIJAY ANAND,
Co-founder President - cleanpolitics_at_gmail.
com,
91 98406 18948 National
HQ -New Delhi, India Operations
Center - Chennai, India Overseas HQ -
Washington DC