corruption!!!!! be the part of change..

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Channel: Md Musthafa mardala · 2018 · News & Politics

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Well known whistleblowers

1)Satyendra Dubey (1973-2003) was a project director at the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
spots huge financial irregularities in handling of GQ project.Sends an anonymous letter to the PMO with a separate 
CV attached telling the PM how many contractors had "submitted forged documents to justify their technical and financial capabilities" to win bids for the contract.Requests PM not to reveal his identity.Letter is forwarded along with the
CV to the Ministry of Road,Transport and Highways.On Nov 27,2002,Shot dead in Gaya. Case is presented as that of robbery by CBI.

2)Shanmugam Manjunath (1978–2005) was a marketing manager (grade A officer) for the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) who was murdered for sealing a corrupt petrol station in Lakhimpur Kheri, UP. This incident inspired several students at IIM, IIT and other institutes culminating with the IIM students setting up the "The Manjunath Shanmugam Trust".

3)Lalit Mehta (1972–2008) was an Indian RTI activist, who was killed brutally near Palamau on May 14, 2008.
A civil engineer by qualification, Lalit, 36, blew the lid off widespread corruption in NREGS in Palamu.He had
become a threat to the contractor lobby and corrupt government officials. Social audit of NREGA he undertook
under economist Jean Dreze's supervision was proving to be the final nail in the coffin of the contractor lobby. But he was killed just a day before that.
The Chhatarpur Police found his body at Kandaghati in Chhatarpur on May 15. His mutilated body and a belt around his neck suggested he was strangled and his face smashed to deform it beyond recognition. The police buried the body as unidentified the same day. It was later exhumed by his colleagues and taken to his native village, where his last rites were performed.

4)
V Saseendran
Saseendran had written to the Chief Minister, the Industries Minister and the Vigilance Director about rampant corruption in the loss-making company, where he had worked for 12 years. He alleged that the managing director's secretary, P Suryanarayanan, was leaking vital company information outside.
Five days later, however, he wrote to them again, regretting he had raised such allegations.
The following month, he quit.
Family sources say Saseendran had been forced to withdraw his initial allegations.
In 2007, an audit report had found that the firm had lost Rs 400 crore in corrupt deals since 2001. Vigilance authorities registered 11 cases, with Saseendran as the prime witness in four of these. In fact, his death came a week after Vigilance submitted the charge-sheet in a case involving the loss of Rs 16 crore.

5)Subramaniam Swamy

In November 2008, Subramanian Swamy amongst others wrote the first of five letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking permission to prosecute A. Raja in regard to the 2G spectrum scam. However, Singh took no action,leading Swamy to file a case on his own in the Supreme Court of India regarding the matter, which then asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to produce a detailed report on it.He further called on the Indian government to re-auction the 2G spectrum without the involvement of Communications Minister Kapil Sibal.
          Subramanian Swamy demanded that an independent committee should be formed to check the security and safety of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) to avoid any rigging or tampering. He argued that countries like US, Japan, UK, Germany and Netherlands have abandoned EVMs and are using paper-ballot system and demanded that a printed receipt should be given to every voter after casting the vote                  
           He is the founder and chairperson of Action Committee Against Corruption in India (ACACI). ACACI's goal is to take specific action against corruption at very high places of government and Indian black money stashed abroad.
 
6) *Arvind Kejriwal* (No need to tell about him

7)M. N. Vijayakumar:
An Indian Administrative Service officer : Exposed serious corrupt practices at high levels

8)
*Vijay Pandhare* , Chief Engineer, Irrigation Department,Government of Maharashtra 

Pandhare was a bureaucrat belonging to the Irrigation Department in the Indian state of Maharashtra. He blew the whistle on the Maharashtra Irrigation Scam of 2012 that led to the resignation of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.

9Vijay Bahadur Singh
10 Rinku Singh Rahi
11 Shehla Masood-

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