RE: [HumJanenge] Request telecasting of proceedings of Standing Committee on Jan Lokpal Bill

Ketkar ji, as far as I remember, this is your first mail on this blog however, u r welcome.  However, this is not new, when some such serious issue comes for discussion, we get mils from new members and after the issue is over, most of them disappers. The question is not that the recommendations of the Standing Committee are binding or not but they will act as a foundation of the bill and govt. will cite these recommendations. . When the proceedings of the LS and RS are telecast so that citizens can know the views of the representatives they have elected, why the proceedings of Mini Parliament (Standing Committee) should not be telecast on such an important issue on which Civil Society alleges of double speak? This will also expose our representatives, if there is some differenc in preach and precept (work) so that they cannot befool their voters and public at large. On Tue, 13/9/11, manish dixit <manish_dixit1100@yahoo.co.in> wrote: From: manish dixit <manish_dixit1100@yahoo.co.in> Subject: RE: [HumJanenge] Request telecasting of proceedings of Standing Committee on Jan Lokpal Bill To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, 13 September, 2011, 12:59 AM KETKAR JI   Even if proceedings of the standing committee would be telecasted it won't make any big diffrence beacuse recommendations of the committee are not binding on the government. I am surprise to see that despite geeting assurance from the Prime Minister why the team 'anna' did not requested hazareji to stop his fast beacuse the assurance given three days before was similar to the letter submitted to anna by Vilasrao. Poor guy... --- On Mon, 12/9/11, Kumar Ketkar <ketkarkumar@hotmail.com> wrote: From: Kumar Ketkar <ketkarkumar@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: [HumJanenge] Request telecasting of proceedings of Standing Committee on Jan Lokpal Bill To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, 12 September, 2011, 8:15 PM Standing committee proceedings ahold not be televised because like you I too do not trust the members of parliament. The will try to play for the gallery and drown the seriousness of the debate. Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 18:23:53 +0530 From: trident142@yahoo.co.in Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] Request telecasting of proceedings of Standing Committee on Jan Lokpal Bill To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com If bigger parliament can be seen debating bills live, then   why not the so called small parliament(standing committee), the public will know who is for and aginst bill being debated. beniwal --- On Thu, 8/9/11, Dinesh Verma <dcverma06@gmail.com> wrote: From: Dinesh Verma <dcverma06@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] Request telecasting of proceedings of Standing Committee on Jan Lokpal Bill To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, 8 September, 2011, 5:57 PM I fully agree with the view expressed by Sri Singhal that the proceedings of the Standing Committee be televiesed so that the public may be aware of the views expressed by the members of the Committee. D.C. On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:35 PM, M K Singhal <mk.singhal@yahoo.co.in> wrote: Dear All, In the interest of transparency and accountbility, govt had decided to telecast proceedings of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and started even seperate TV channels for the purpose. Standing Committees formed by Parliament are said to be mini parliaments to review in details the various bills referred to them before being passed by the parliament. Their proceedings are therefore as important for the people as the proceedings of the parliament itself. I do not know why are the proceedings of Standing Committees not being televised. I suggest that people's pressure should be built up on the govt to start televising the proceedings of all Standing Committees to enable us, the people, to know the views of the various members/parties on various bills being considered by them.  The proceedings of the Standing Committee currently considering Jan Lokpal Bill must start being televised immediately. Your reactions and appropriate action at your end is requested. mksinghal