 bill no  82 of 2007 the constitution (amendment) bill, 2007 byshri mohan singh, mp a billfurther to amend the constitution of indiabe it enacted by parliament in the fifty-eighth year of the republic of india as follows:—1 this act may be called the constitution (amendment) act, 2007short title2  after article 24 of the constitution, the following article shall be inserted, namely:–insertion of new article 24a statement of objects and reasonsthe fundamental rights enshrined in the constitution represent two important factsthe first is that they are an explicit and significant articulation of the basic rights that every citizen in the country must enjoy in order to ensure that we have a meaningful democracy and the ideals articulated in the preamble of the constitution are realised in practice the second important fact is that they represent the rights which a citizen must enjoy if we want to have good governance by removing social evils like untouchability these rights have evolved over generations they represent the lessons the society has learnt from the past experience when these rights were not available to the citizens and consequently there was suffering and misgovernance for example, the protection from double jeopardy must have arisen because there was a time when a person could be punished again and again for the same offencesixty years of our existence as independent nation and fifty-seven years of working of the constitution has resulted in one common experience of all indian citizens they cannot go to any public organisation or office today and get the service which they are supposed to get without either paying bribe or bringing influence by way of recommendations or references from vips today, the situation is so bad that even a simple work can be got done only after paying necessary bribe or bringing influence it is a shameful thing that our country has been rated as one of the most corrupt countries in the world corruption cannot go unchecked it will kill initiative, industriousness and skill it will rather develop irresponsibility and a lack of sensibility today, corruption is not only in government departments but is prevalent everywherewhen we are talking about transparency in administration, freedom of information, etc it would be appropriate to talk about prevention of corruption which all go together today, we are attracting maximum foreign investment our computer engineers are making us proud by their achievements but one single factor, corruption, has downgraded our image to such an extent that all our efforts have been nullified certain steps like–(i) computerisation of all records;(ii) immediate action in case of corruption;(iii) complete transparency in administration; and(iv) severe punishment to the guiltycan be initiated immediately to tackle this menace with this in view, it is proposed to amend the constitution to make corruption free service as a fundamental right lok sabha———— a billfurther to amend the constitution of india————(shri mohan singh, mp)mgipmrnd—4462ls(s5)—14-11-2007