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Lok Satta strongly believes in advocating and practising sustainable and replicable activities. Lok Satta provides a platform to citizens who basically subscribe to the ideology of Lok Satta and form themselves into groups/associations. Lok Satta provides them with inputs to identify the community needs, prioritizing them, and getting them fulfilled through participatory action and informed collective assertion.
Lok Satta's pioneering initiatives 'Election Watch', 'Screening of Electoral Candidates' and 'Know your Candidates' starting in 1998/99 were subsequently taken up and adopted by like-minded civil society organizations and the electronic media during subsequent elections. Sustained advocacy, people's mobilization coupled with approaching the courts led to the historic judgments at the Delhi High Court (2000) and the Supreme Courts (2002 and 2003) where the voters right to know the antecedents of an electoral candidate were declared as being integral to the fundamental rights. These rulings later led to the Disclosure Law. Lok Satta's Election Watch campaign has been replicated in states like Maharashtra, West Bengal, Orissa, etc. Lok Satta is optimistic about such initiatives in other states as well.
Lok Satta Chapters are set up in Maharashtra and Gujarat and few others are in the offing.
Lok Satta carried out research in various aspects and issues related to governance on an ongoing basis. Papers are published and thoughts and ideas vocalized through the use of varied media. Lok Satta's draft laws and bills have been widely recognized and have formed the basis on which perform research and documentation functions, Lok Satta has helped form the ground for interactive public discourse.
The demand for empowerment of local government is made sustainable by the organization of Federation for Empowerment of Local Governments (FELG) and separate federations for elected women representatives.
In the elections held for urban local governments in AP (2005) Lok Satta initiated the concept of People's Charters. Various public services and civic amenities in the urban area were analyzed in detail. And a charter listing out what the people what and their priorities was prepared. The charter was given to the competing candidates seeking their commitment. Lok Satta proposes to hold periodic dialogue with elected representatives and make them accountable. The concept caught the imagination of major political parties in the state, which came up with their manifesto for each urban area.
Lok Satta advocated citizen's charters to bring transparency to the working of the government departments and facilitate ease of interface for the citizen. Citizen's charters are being introduced in all the government departments and the RTI Act gives further fillip. Lok Satta believes that citizen's charters should become a basic feature of governance.
Similarly, Lok Satta's quiet advocacy for making political funding transparent and open was scaled up as a national advocacy cause and later led to the enactment of a progressive funding reform law. The campaign to improve the integrity of the electoral rolls, make them easily accessible to citizens on a permanent basis initially grew out of Lok Satta's state-level initiative that was later taken up by the Election Commission and the Department of Posts. Now, post offices have been declared as nodal agencies for accessing electoral rolls.
Lok Satta strongly believes in advocating and practising sustainable and replicable activities. Lok Satta provides a platform to citizens who basically subscribe to the ideology of Lok Satta and form themselves into groups/associations. Lok Satta provides them with inputs to identify the community needs, prioritizing them, and getting them fulfilled through participatory action and informed collective assertion.
Lok Satta's pioneering initiatives 'Election Watch', 'Screening of Electoral Candidates' and 'Know your Candidates' starting in 1998/99 were subsequently taken up and adopted by like-minded civil society organizations and the electronic media during subsequent elections. Sustained advocacy, people's mobilization coupled with approaching the courts led to the historic judgments at the Delhi High Court (2000) and the Supreme Courts (2002 and 2003) where the voters right to know the antecedents of an electoral candidate were declared as being integral to the fundamental rights. These rulings later led to the Disclosure Law. Lok Satta's Election Watch campaign has been replicated in states like Maharashtra, West Bengal, Orissa, etc. Lok Satta is optimistic about such initiatives in other states as well.
Lok Satta Chapters are set up in Maharashtra and Gujarat and few others are in the offing.
Lok Satta carried out research in various aspects and issues related to governance on an ongoing basis. Papers are published and thoughts and ideas vocalized through the use of varied media. Lok Satta's draft laws and bills have been widely recognized and have formed the basis on which perform research and documentation functions, Lok Satta has helped form the ground for interactive public discourse.
The demand for empowerment of local government is made sustainable by the organization of Federation for Empowerment of Local Governments (FELG) and separate federations for elected women representatives.
In the elections held for urban local governments in AP (2005) Lok Satta initiated the concept of People's Charters. Various public services and civic amenities in the urban area were analyzed in detail. And a charter listing out what the people what and their priorities was prepared. The charter was given to the competing candidates seeking their commitment. Lok Satta proposes to hold periodic dialogue with elected representatives and make them accountable. The concept caught the imagination of major political parties in the state, which came up with their manifesto for each urban area.
Lok Satta advocated citizen's charters to bring transparency to the working of the government departments and facilitate ease of interface for the citizen. Citizen's charters are being introduced in all the government departments and the RTI Act gives further fillip. Lok Satta believes that citizen's charters should become a basic feature of governance.
Similarly, Lok Satta's quiet advocacy for making political funding transparent and open was scaled up as a national advocacy cause and later led to the enactment of a progressive funding reform law. The campaign to improve the integrity of the electoral rolls, make them easily accessible to citizens on a permanent basis initially grew out of Lok Satta's state-level initiative that was later taken up by the Election Commission and the Department of Posts. Now, post offices have been declared as nodal agencies for accessing electoral rolls.

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