 bill no xxiii of 2011 the anti-corruption, grievance redressal  and whistleblower protection  bill, 2011———— arrangement  of  clauses———— chapter  i preliminary clauses1 short title, and commencement 2  definitions chapter ii establishment of lokpal 3  establishment of the institution of lakpal4  qualification for appointment of chairperson and members of lokpal 5  term of office and other conditions of service of lokpal 6  appointment of the chairperson and members 7  removal of chairperson or members chapter iii powers and functions of lokpal 8  powers and functions of lokpal9  search and seizure10  evidence 11  reports of lokpal 12  lokpal to be a deemed police officer 13  powers of lokpal in case of non-compliance of orders 14  numbers of special judges for trial 15  functioning of lokpal chapter iv complaint making mechanism and protection of complainant and punishment 16  procedure for making a complaint to the lokpal17  matters to be investigated by the lokpal 18  matters not subject to investigation 19  procedure relating to complaints and investigations 20  protection of whistleblower chapter v grievance redressal systems 21  citizens' charters and grievance redressal chapter vi authorities and staff of lokpal 22  chief  vigilance officer23  staff of lokpal 24  repeal and savings 25  investigation wing of lokpal 26  complaints against officers or employees of lokpal chapter vii miscellaneous 27  protection of action taken in good faith28  public servants to submit amount property statements 29  power to delegate and assign functions 30  time limits to be fixed for enquiries 31  penalty for false complaint 32  preventive measures 33  removal of difficulties 34  overriding effect of the act 35  power to make regulations 36  power to make rules chapter viii amendments of prevention of corruption act37  amendments of prevention of corruption act bill no xxiii of  2011 the anti-corruption, grievance redressal and whistleblower protection bill, 2011 a billto provide for the establishment of effective anti-corruption and grievance redressal systems at the centre by creating effective deterrant against corruption and also to provide effective protection to whistleblowers and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto be it enacted by parliament in the sixty-second year of the republic of india as follows:— chapter  i preliminary51 (1) this act may be called the anti-corruption, grievance redressal and whistleblower protection act, 2011short title and commencement(2) it shall come into force at oncedefinitions2 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,—(a) "action" means any action taken by a public servant in the discharge of his functions as such public servant and includes decision, recommendation or finding or in any other manner and includes willful failure or omission to act and all other expressions relating to such action shall be construed accordingly;(b) "allegation" in relation to a public servant inlcudes any affirmation that such public servant—(i) has indulged in misconduct, if he is a government servant; (ii) has indulged in corruption;(c) "complaint" includes any grievance or allegation or a request by whistleblower for protection and appropriate action;(d) "corruption" includes anything made punishable under chapter ix of the indian penal code, 1860 or under the prevention of corruption act, 1988;45 of 1860 49 of 1988(e) "government" or "central government" means government of india;5(f) "government servant" means any person who is or was any time appointed to a civil service or post in connection with the affairs of the central government or high courts or supreme court either on deputation or permanent or temporary or on contractual employment but would not inlcude the judges;10(g) "grievance" means a claim by a person that he sustained injustice or undue hardship in consequence of mal-administration;(h) "lokpal" means:(i) benches constituted under this act and performing their functions as laid down under various provisions of this act, or15(ii) any officer or employee, exercising its powers and carry out its functions and responsibilities, in the manner and to the extent, assigned to it under this act, or under various rules, regulations or orders made under various provisions of this act;(iii) for all other purposes, the chairperson and members acting collectively as a body;20(i) "mal-administration" means action taken or purporting to have been taken in the exercise of administrative function in any case where,—(i) such action or the administrative procedure or practice governing such action is unreasonable, unjust, oppressive or improperly discriminatory; or25(ii) there has been willful negligence or undue delay in taking such action or the administrative procedure or practice governing such action involves undue delay; (j) "misconduct" means misconduct as defined in the central civil services conduct rules and which has vigilance angle;30(k) "public authority" means any authority or body or institution of selfgovernment established or constituted—(i) by or under the constitution; (ii) by any other law made by parliament; (iii) by notification issued or order made by the government, and includes any body owned, controlled or substantially financed by the government;35(l) "public servant" means a person who is or was at any time,—(i) the prime minister; (ii) member of the council of  ministers; (iii) a member of parliament;40(iv) a judge of high courts or supreme court; (v) a government servant; (vi) the chairman or vice-chairman (by whatever name called ) or a member of a local authority in the control of the central government or a statutory body or corporation established by or under any law of the parliament of india, including a co-operative society, or a government company within the meaning of section 617 of  the companies act, 1956 and members of any committee or board, statutory or non-statutory, constituted by the government(vii) holding positions in such other authorities as the central government may, by notification, from time to time, specify;(m) "vigilance angle" includes—(i) all acts of corruption;5(ii) gross or wilful negligence; recklessness in decision making; blatantviolations of systems and established procedures; exercise of discretion in excess, where no ostensible/public interest is evident; failure to keep the controlling authority or superiors informed in time;10(iii) failure or delay in taking action, if under law the government servantought to do so, against subordinates on complaints of corruption or dereliction of duties or abuse of office by the subordinates;(iv) indulging in discrimination through one's conduct, directly orindirectly;(v) victimizing whistle blowers;15(vi) any undue unjustified delay in the disposal of a case, perceived afterconsidering all relevant factors, would reinforce a conclusion as to the presence of vigilance angle in a case;(vii) make unfair investigation or enquiry to either unduly help culprits orfabricate the innocent(viii) any other matter as notified from time to time by the lokpal2022 of 2005(n) "whistleblower" means any person who faces threat of (i) professional harm, including but not limited to illegitimate transfers, denial of promotions, denial of apropriate perks, departmental proceedings, discrimination or (ii) physical harm or is actually subjected to such harm; because of either making a complaint to the lokpal under this act or for filing an application under right to information act, 200525 chapter ii establishment of lokpal3 (1) there shall be an institution known as lokpal which shall consist of a chairperson and ten members along with its officers and employees30establishment of the institution of lokpal(2) the chairperson and members of the lokpal shall be selected in such manner aslaid down in this act(3) a person appointment as chairperson or member of the lokpal shall, before entering upon his office, make and subscribe before the president, an oath or affirmation in the form as prescribed35(4) the government shall appoint the chairperson and members of the first lokpal andset-up the institution with all its logistics and assets within six months of enactment of this act(5) the government shall fill up a vacancy of the chairperson or a member caused due to—40(a) retirement three months before the chairperson or the members retires (b) any other unforeseen reason, within a month of such vacancy45qualifications for appointment of chairperson and members of lokpal4 the chairperson and members of the lokpal shall not be sitting or former member of either the parliament or the legislature of any state and shall not hold any office or trust of profit (other than the office as chairperson or member) or would have ever been connected with any political party or carry on any business or practice any profession and accordingly, before he enters upon his office, a person appointed as the chairperson or member of lokpal shall—(i) if he holds any office of trust or profit, resign from such office; or (ii) if he is carrying on any business, sever his connection with the conduct and management of such business; or(iii) if he is practicing any profession, suspend practice of such profession; or5(iv) if he is associated directly or indirectly with any other activity, which is likely to cause conflict of interest in the performance of his duties as lokpal, he should suspend his association with that activity:10provided that if even after the suspension, the earlier association of that person with such activity is likely to adversely affect his performance as lokpal, that person shall not be appointed as a member or chairperson of  lokpal 5 (1) a person appointed as the chairperson or member of the lokpal shall hold office for a term of five years from the date on which he enters upon his office;provided that,—term of office and other conditions of service of lokpal(a) the chairperson or member of the lokpal may, by writing under his hand addressed to the president, resign his office; or15(b) the chairperson or member may be removed from office in the manner provided in this act (2) there shall be paid to the chairperson and each member every month a salary equal to that of the chief justice of india and that of the judge of the supreme court respectively;20(3) the allowances and pension payable to and other conditions of service of the chairperson or a member shall be such as may be prescribed:provided that the allowances and pension payable to and other conditions of service of the chairperson or members shall not be varied to his disadvantage after his appointment25(4) there shall be a separate fund by the name of "lokpal fund" in which penalties or fines imposed by the lokpal shall be deposited and in which ten per cent of the loss of public money detected or prevented on account of investigations by the lokpal shall also be deposited by the government30(5) the disposal of such lokpal fund shall be completely at the discretion of the lokpal and such fund shall be used only for enhancement or upgradation or extension of the infrastructure of lokpal(6) any person if he has ever held the position of the chairperson or a member of lokpal for any period shall not be eligible for appointment on any position in the government of india or government of any state or for contesting elections:35provided however that a member or chairperson may be reappointed for one more term or a member may be appointed as the chairperson, however, that any person shall not serve for more than a total of two terms6 (1) the chairperson and members shall be appointed by the president on the recommendation of a selection committeeappointment of the chairperson and members40(2) following persons shall not be eligible to become chairman or member of the lokpal:45 of 1860 49 of 1988(a) any person who was ever charge-sheeted for any offence under the indian penal code 1860 or the prevention of corruption act, 1988 or was ever penalized under central civil services conduct rules45(b) any person who is less than forty years of age(3) at least four members of the lokpal shall have legal background (4) the selection committee referred to in sub-section (1) shall consist of :(i) two senior most judges of the supreme court, (ii) two senior most chief justices of the high courts,5(iii) all nobel laureates of indian origin, (iv) last three magsaysay award winners, (v) comptroller and auditor general of india,(vi) chief election commissioner,10(vii) after the first set of selection process, the outgoing chairperson and members of  lokpal (5) the senior most judge of the supreme court shall act as the chairperson of the selection committee(6) the selection committee shall followed the following selection process:—15(a) recommendations for the post of chairperson and members of lokpal shall be invited through open advertisements in prescribed format;(b) the candidates should have unimpeachable integrity and should have demonstrated their resolve and efforts to fight against corruption in the past;(c) each person recommending any name shall be expected to justify the selction of his candidate giving examples from the past achievements of the candidate;20(d) the list of candidates along with their recommendations received in the formatmentioned above shall be displayed on a website;(e) each member of the selection committee, on the basis of the above material, shall recommend such number of names as there are vacancies;25(f) a priority list shall be prepared with the candidate receiving recommendations from maximum number of members of selection committee at the top and the candidates recommended by the same number of members shall be treated at par;(g) this priority list shall be displayed on the website; (h) around three times the names as per the vacancies, shall be short-listed from the top;30(i) public feedback shall be invited on the short-listed names by putting thesenames on the website;(j) the selection committee may decide to use any means to collect more information about the background and past achievements of the short-listed candidates;35(k) selection committee shall invite short-listed candidates for discussions, video recordings of which shall be made public;(l) all the material obtained so far about the candidates shall be made available to each member of the selection committee in advance to enable the members to make their own assessment of each candidate;40(m) the selection committee shall meet and discuss the material so receivedabout each candidate and the final selections for the chairperson and members shall be made preferably through consensus:provided that if three or more members, for reasons to be recorded in writing, object to the selection of any member, he shall not be selected;(n) all meetings of selection committee shall be video recorded and shall be made public; (7) selection committee shall recommend the names to the president, who shall order such appointments within a month of receipt of the same57 (1) the chairperson or any member shall not be removed from this office except by an order of the presidentremoval of chairperson or members(2) the chairman or any member can be removed on one or more of the following grounds,—(a) proved misbehaviour;10(b) professional or physical incapacity; (c) if he is adjudged to be insolvent; (d) has been charged of an offence which involves moral turpitude; (e) if he engages during his term of office in any paid employment outside the duties of his office;15(f) has acquired such financial interests or other interests which are likely to affect prejudicially his functions as member or chairperson;(g) if he is guided by considerations extraneous to the merits of the case either to favour someone or to implicate someone through any act of omission or commission;49 of 1988(h) if he commits any act of omission or commission which is punishable under the prevention of corruption act, 1988 or is a misconduct;20(i) if a member or the chairperson in any way, concerned or interested in any contract or agreement made by or on behalf of the government of india or participates in any way in the profit thereof or in any benefit or emolument arising therefrom otherwise than as a member and in common with the other members of an incorporated company, he shall be deemed to be guilty of misbehaviour25(3) the following process shall be followed for the removal of any member of chairperson—30(a) any person may move an application or petition before the supreme court seeking removal of one or more of the members or chairperson of the lokpal alleging one or more of the grounds for removal and providing evidence for the same; and(b) the supreme court shall hear the matter in a bench of three or more judges on receipt of such petition and may take one or more of the following steps—(i) order on investigation to be done by a special investigation team appointed by the supreme court, if a prima facie  case is made out and if the matter cannot be judged based on affidavits of the parties;35(ii) dismiss the petition if, no case is made out;(iii) if the grounds are proved, recommend to the president for removal ofthe said member or chairperson; or4049 of 1988(iv) direct registration and investigation of cases with appropriate agencies if, there is prima facie  case of commission of an offence punishable under the prevention of corruption act, 1988 (c) the supreme court shall not dismiss such petitions in liminae;(d) if the supreme court concluded that the petition has been made with mischievous or malafide motives, the court may order imposition of fine or imprisonment upto one year against the complainant; and45(e) on receipt of a recommendation from the supreme court under this section, the president shall order removal of chairperson or member within a month of the receipt of the same chapter iii 5 powers and functions of lokpal8 (1) the lokpal shall be responsible for receiving,—powers and functions of lokpal49 of 1988(a) complaints where there are allegations of such acts of omission or commissionwhich are punishable under the prevention of corruption act, 1988;(b) complaints where there are allegations of misconduct by a government servant;(c) grievances; and10(d) complaints from whistleblowers(2) the lokpal after getting such inquiries and investigations done as it deems fit, may take one or more of the following actions:(a) close the case, if prima facie,  the complaint is not made out; or15(b) initiate prosecution against public servants as well as those private entitieswhich are party to the act; and(c) order imposition of appropriate penalties under the central civil servicesconduct rules:2049 of 1988provided that if, an officer is finally convicted under the prevention of corruptionact, 1988 major penalty of dismissal shall be imposed on such government servant(d) order cancellation or modification of a license or lease or permission orcontract or agreement, which was the subject matter of investigation;(e) blacklist the concerned firm or company or contractor or any other entityinvolved in that act of corruption;25(f) issue appropriate directions to appropriate authorities for redressal of grievancein such time and in such manner as is specified in the order;(g) invoke its powers under this act if, its orders are not duly complied with andensure due compliance of its orders; or30(h) take necessary action to provide protection to a whistleblower as per variousprovisions of this act(3) suo-motu  initiate appropriate action under this act if any case, of the nature mentioned in clauses (a), (b), (c) or (d) of sub-section (1) comes to the knowledge of the lokpal from any source35(4) issue such directions, as are necessary, from time to time, to appropriate authorities to make such changes in their work practices, administration or other systems so as to reduce the scope and possibility for corruption, misconduct and public grievances(5) the lokpal shall be deemed to be "disciplinary authority" or "appointing authority"for the purpose of imposing penalties under ccs conduct rules2 of 197440(6) section 197 of the code of criminal procedure, 1973 shall not apply to anyproceedings under this act all permissions, which need to be sought for initiating investigations or for initiating prosecutions under any act shall be deemed to have been granted once the lokpal grants such permissions9 (1) where, in consequence of information in his possession, the lokpal—search and seizure(a) has reason to believe that any person,—5(i) to whom a summon or notice under this act, has been or might be issued, will not produce or cause to be produced any property, document or thing which will be necessary or useful for or relevant to any inquiry or other proceeding to be conducted by him;10(ii) is in possession of any money, bullion, jewellery or other valuable article or thing and such money, bullion, jewellery or other valuable article or thing represents either wholly or partly income or property which has not been disclosed to the authorities for the purpose of any law or rule in force which requires such disclosure to be made; or (b) considers that the purposes of any inquiry or other proceedings to be conducted by him will be served by a general search or inspection15he may by a search warrant authorize any police officer not below the rank of an inspector of police to conduct a search or carry out an inspection in accordance therewith and in particular to,—(i) enter and search any building or place where he has reason to suspect that such property, document, money, bullion, jewellery or other valuable article or thing is kept;20(ii) search any person who is reasonably suspected of concealing about his person any article for which search should be made;(iii) break open the lock of any door, box, locker safe, almirah or other receptacle for exercising the powers conferred by sub-clause (i) where the keys thereof are not available;25(iv) seize any such property, document, money, bullion, jewellery or other valuable article or thing found as a result of such search;(v) place marks of identification on any property or document or make or cause to be made; extracts or copies therefrom; or(vi) make a note or an inventory of any such property, document, money, bullion, jewellery or other valuable article or thing302 of 1974(2) the provisions of the code of criminal procedure, 1973, relating to search and seizures shall apply, so far as may be, to searches and seizures under sub-section (1)2 of 1974(3) a warrant issued under sub-section (1) shall for all purposes, be deemed to be a warrant issued by a court under section 93 of the code of criminal procedure, 197335evidence10 (1) subject to the provisions of this section, for the purpose of any investigation(including the preliminary inquiry, if any, before such investigation) under this act, the lokpal may require any public servant or any other person who, in his opinion is able to furnish information or produce documents relevant to the investigation, to furnish any such information or produce any such document405 of 1908(2) for the purpose of any such investigation (including the preliminary inquiry) the lokpal shall have all the powers of a civil court while trying a suit under the code of civil procedure, 1908, in respect of the following matters, namely:—| (        | a   | ) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him     ||----------|-----|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|| on oath; |     |                                                                              || 45       |     |                                                                              || (        | b   | ) requiring the discovery and production of any document;                    || (        | c   | ) receiving evidence on affidavits;                                          || (        | d   | ) requisitioning any public record or copy thereof from any court or office; |(e) issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses or documents;(f) ordering payment of compensatory cost in respect of a false or vexatiousclaim or defence;(g) ordering cost for causing delay;5(h) such other matters as may be prescribed45 of 1860(3) any proceeding before the lokpal shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of section 193 of the indian penal code, 1860reports of lokpal11 (1) the chairperson of lokpal shall present annually a consolidated report inprescribed format on its performance to the president10(2) on receipt of the annual report, the president shall cause a copy thereof togetherwith an explanatory memorandum to be laid before each house of the parliament15| (                                                                                              | 3   | ) the lokpal shall upload, every month on its website the list of cases disposed   ||------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|| with brief details of each such case, outcome and action taken or proposed to be taken in that |     |                                                                                    || case along with lists of all cases received by the lokpal during the previous month, cases     |     |                                                                                    || disposed and cases which are pending                                                          |     |                                                                                    || 2 of 1974                                                                                     |     |                                                                                    || lokpal to be                                                                                   |     |                                                                                    || deemed police                                                                                  |     |                                                                                    || officer                                                                                       |     |                                                                                    || 12                                                                                            | (   | 1                                                                                  || chairperson, members of the lokpal and the officers in investigation wing of the lokpal shall  |     |                                                                                    || be deemed to be police officers                                                               |     |                                                                                    || 49 of 1988                                                                                    |     |                                                                                    || (                                                                                              | 2   | ) while investigating any offence under the prevention of corruption act, 1988,    || they shall be competent to investigate any offence under any other law in the same case       |     |                                                                                    |20| 13                                                                                            |    ( | 1                                                                                        ||------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|| required to execute that order, the manner in which it should be executed and the time period  |      |                                                                                          || within which that order should be complied with                                               |      |                                                                                          || powers of                                                                                      |      |                                                                                          || lokpal in case                                                                                 |      |                                                                                          || of non-                                                                                        |      |                                                                                          || compliance of                                                                                  |      |                                                                                          || orders                                                                                        |      |                                                                                          || (                                                                                              |    2 | )if the order is not complied with within the time or in the manner directed, the lokpal || may decide to impose a fine on the officials responsible for the non-compliance of its orders |      |                                                                                          |25(3)the drawing and disbursing officer of the concerned department shall be directed to deduct such amount of fine as is clearly specified by the lokpal in its order made in subsection (2) from the salaries of the officers specified in the order:provided that no penalty shall be imposed without giving the officer a reasonable opportunity of being heard:30provided further that if the drawing and disbursing officer falls to make deduct on from the salary as specified in the said order, he shall make himself liable for a similar penalty3570 of 1971(3)in order to get its orders complied with, the lokpal shall have, and exercise the same jurisdiction powers and authority in respect of contempt of itself as a high court has and may exercise, and, for this purpose, the provisions of the contempt of courts act, 1971 shall have the effect subject to the modification that the references therein to the high court shall be construed as including a reference to the lokpal49 of 1988number of special judges for trial4014 on an annual basis, the lokpal shall make an assessment of the number of special judges required under section 4 of the prevention of corruption act, 1988 in each area and the government shall appoint such number of judges within three months of receipt of such recommendation:provided that the lokpal shall recommend such number of special judges so that trial in each case under this act is completed within a yearfunctioning of lokpal15 (1) the chairperson shall be responsible for overall administration and supervision of the institution of lokpal45(2)all policy level decisions including formulation of regulations, developing internal systems for the functioning of the lokpal, assigning functions to various officials in the lokpal, delegation of powers to various functionaries in the lokpal etc shall be taken by the chairperson and the members collectively as a body5(3)the chairperson shall have an annual meeting with the prime minister to assess the needs of the lokpal for finances and manpower and the lokpal shall be provided required resources by the government on the basis of outcome of such meeting(4)the lokpal shall function in benches of three or more members which shall be constituted randomly and cases shall be assigned to them randomly by computer(5)each bench shall consist of at least one member with legal background10(6)the benches shall be responsible for:—(i) granting permission to close any case after a preliminary inquiry; (ii) granting permission to either close a case after investigations or issuing orders imposing penalties under central civil service conduct rules and/or for initiating prosecution in that case;15(iii) issuing orders under section 26(7) the lokpal may decided to initiate investigations into any case suo-motu also(8) the chairperson shall chair all the meetings of the lokpal20(9) the decision to initiate investigation or prosecution against any member of the cabinet or any judge of the high court or the supreme court shall be taken in a meeting of all the existing members and the chairperson and the minutes and records of such meetings shall be made public chapter  iv complaint making mechanism and protection of complaint and punishment2516 (1) subject to the provisions of this act, any person may make a complaint under this act to the lokpal:procedure for making a complaint to the lokpalprovided that in case of a grievance, if the person aggrieved is dead or for any reason, unable to act for himself, the complaint may be made or if, it is already made, may be continued by his legal representatives or by any other person who is authorized by him in writing in this behalf30(2) a complaint could be on a plain paper but should contain all such details as prescribed by the lokpal(3) on receipt of a complaint, the lokpal shall decide whether it is an allegation or a grievance or a request for whistleblower protection or a mixture of two or more of these35(4) every complaint shall have to be compulsorily disposed of by the lokpal within a specified time as may be prescirbed:provided that no complaint, other than those which are anonymous, shall be closed without hearing the complainantmatters to be investigated by the lokpal4017 subject to the provisions of this act, the lokpal may investigate any action which is taken by or with the general or specific approval of a public servant where a complaint involving a grievance or an allegation is made in respect of such action:provided that the lokpal may also investigate such action suo-motu or if it is referred to it by the government, if such action can be or could have been in his recorded opinion, subject of a grievance or an allegation18 (1) the lokpal shall not conduct any investigation under this act in case of a grievance in respect of any action,—matters not subject to investigation5(i) if the complainant has or had, any remedy by way of appeal, revision, reviewor any other remedy before any other authority provided in any other law and he has not availed of the same;(ii) taken by a judicial or quasi-judicial body, unless the complainant allegesmalafides;(iii) if the substance of  the entire grievance is pending before any court orquasi-judicial body of competent jurisdiction;10(iv) if there is inordinate and inexplicable delay(2) nothing in this act shall be construed as authorising the lokpal to investigate any action which is taken by or with the approval of the presiding officer of either house of parliament15(3) the provisions of this act shall be in addition to the provisions of any other enactment or any rule or law under which any remedy by way of appeal, revision, review or in any other manner is available to a person making a complaint under this act in respect of any action and nothing in this act shall limit or affect the right of such person to avail of such remedy(4) nothing in this section shall bar the lokpal from entertaining a complaint making an allegation of misconduct or corruption or a complaint from a whistleblower seeking protection20procedure relating to complaints and investigations2519 (1) the lokpal, on receipt of a complaint in the nature of an allegation or a grievance or a combination of the two, or in a case initiated on his own motion, may on perusing the documents, either decide to proceed to inquire or investigate into that complaint or decide, to make such preliminary inquiry before proceeding to inquire or investigate into such complaint or direct any other person to make such preliminary inquiry as it deems fit for ascertaining whether there exists reasonable ground for conducting the investigation(2) the outocme of such preliminary inquiry, and if the complaint is being closed along with reasons for the same and all material collected during preliminary inquiry, shall be communicated to the complainant:30provided that if any case is closed, all documents related thereto shall thereafter be treated as public:provided further that if the complaint contains verifiable and specific information about misconduct or corruption, then that case shall not be rejected even if the complaint is anonymous:35provided also that no complaint of allegation shall be rejected by questioning the motives or intention of the complainant:provided again that all hearings before the lokpal shall be video recorded and shall be available to any member of the public on payment or copying costs4022 of 2005(3) every month, a list of all such cases shall be put on the website with reasons for closing a case and all material connected with such closed cases will be provided  to anyone seeking it under right to information act, 2005(4) the procedure for preliminary inquiry of a complaint shall be such as the lokpal deems appropriate in the circumstances of the case and in particular, the lokpal may, if it deems necessary to do so, call for the comments of the public servant concerned:45provided that the preliminary inquiry shall be completed and a decision shall be taken whether to close a case or to proceed with investigations within one month of receipt of any complaint(5) where the lokpal proposes, either directly or after making preliminary inquiry, to conduct any investigation under this act, he,—(a) may make such order as to the safe custody of documents relevant to the investigations, as it deems fit;5(b) at appropriate stage of investigations or in the end, shall forward a copy of the complaint, his findings and copy of the material relied upon to the concerned public servant and the complainant;(c) shall afford to such public servant and the complainant an opportunity to offer comments and be heard:10provided that such hearing shall be held in public, except in such rare circumstances, to be recorded in writing, it may be held in camera(6) the conduct of an investigation under this act against a public servant in respect of any action shall not affect such action, or any power or duty of any other public servant to take further action with respect to any matter subject to the investigation15 20(7) if, during the course of preliminary inquiry or investigation under this act, the lokpal is prima facie satisfied that the allegation or grievance in respect of any action is likely to be sustained either wholly or partly, he may, through an interim order, direct the public servant concerned to stay the implementation or enforcement of the decision or action complained against, or to take such mandatory or preventive action, on such terms and conditions, as he may specify in his order to prevent further harm from taking place(8) the lokpal, either during the course of investigations, if he is satisfied that prosecution is likely to be initiated in that case, or at the end of the investigations at the time of initiating prosecution, shall make a list of the assets of all the accused in that case and shall notify the same25(9) in the event of final conviction, the court shall be empowered to recover loss determined under section 20 of this act from this property and transfer any of property subsequent to the date of notification by the lokpal under this sub-section shall be treated as null and void30(10) if during the course of investigation or inquiry into a complaint the lokpal feels that continuance of a public servant in that position could adversely affect the course of investigations or inquiry or that the said person is likely to influence evidence or witnesses, the lokpal may issue appropriate orders including transfer of that public servant from that position or his suspension:provided that such orders shall not be passed against the prime minister35(11) in case of a grievance, the lokpal may issue interim orders to the appropriate authority recommending grant of interim relief to the complainant, if he is satisfied at any stage of preliminary inquiry or investigation that the complainant has sustained injustice or undue hardship in consequence of any decision or action of a public servant40(12) the lokpal may, at any stage of inquiry or investigation under this act, direct through an interim order, the appropriate authorities to take such action as is necessary, including suspension of a government servant, pending inquiry or investigation,—(i) to safeguard wastage or damage of public property or public revenue by the administrative acts of the public servant;(ii) to prevent further acts of misconduct by the public servant;45(iii) to prevant the public servant from secreting the assets allegedly acquired by him by corrupt means (13) where after investigation into a complaint, the lokpal is satisfied that the complaint involving an allegation against the public servant is substantiated and that the public servant concerned should not continue to hold the post held by him, the lokpal shall pass orders to that effect:5provided that if public servant is a government servant, he shall be deemed to havevacated the position with effect from receipt of such order(14) in case of public servants other than government servants the lokpal shall make such recommendation to the president, who shall decided either to accept such recommendation or reject it within a month of its receipt10(15) if, after inquiry into a grievance and after affording reasonable opportunity of being heard to both the complainant and the public authority, the lokpal is satisfied that such grievance is substantiated either wholly or partly, he shall,—(i) pass appropriate orders directing appropriate authorities to redress thegrievance in a manner and within the time prescribed in the order, and15(ii) direct the appropriate authorities to deduct from the salary of the officialsmentioned in the order amount calculated and specified in the order at the rate of rs two hundred fifty per day of delay calculated from day the time limit mentioned in citizens' charter for redressing that grievance got over, and20(iii) direct the appropriate authorities to compensate the complainant with suchamounts as mentioned in the order:provided that any grievance shall be disposed within fifteen days of its receipt: provided further that if, it relates to life and liberty of a person or if the matter is such as to warrant immediate attention and the lokpal is so satisfied, the same shall be disposed within forty eight hours2522 of 2005(16) all records and information of the lokpal shall be public and shall be providedunder right to information act, 2005 even at the stage of investigation or inquiry, unless release of such information would adversely affect the process or inquiry or investigation:22 of 2005provided that no information in any case shall be withheld under the right to informationact, 2005 after the completion of  inquiry or investigation30protection of whistleblower20 (1) a whistleblower may write to the lokpal seeking protection from threat ofphysical or professional victimization or if he has been subjected to such professional or physical victimization(2) on receiving such a complaint, the lokpal shall take following steps,—35(a) on threat of professional victimization the lokpal shall conduct appropriateinquiries and if, it feels that there is a real threat to the person and the threat is on account of that person having made an allegation under this act, then the lokpal shall pass appropriate orders, as soon as possible but in not more than a month of receipt of such complaint, directing appropriate authorities to take such steps as directed by the lokpal40(b) if a person complains that he has already been victimized professionally onaccount of making an allegation under this act, the lokpal shall, after conducting inquiries, if he is of the opinion that the victimization is indeed because of that person's having made an allegation under this act, pass appropriate orders, as soon as possible but in not more than a month, directing appropriate authorities to take such steps as directed by the lokpal:45provided that for clause (a) the lokpal may, but for clause (b) the lokpal shall, also issue orders imposing penalties under central civil services conduct rules against the officer or officials who issued threats or caused victimization:provided further that no such penalties shall be imposed without giving an opportunity of being heard to the affected officials5 22 of 2005 10(c) on threat of physical victimization, the lokpal shall conduct appropriate inquiries and if, it feels that there is a real threat to the person and the threat is on account of that person having made an allegation under this act or for having filed an under the right to information, act, 2005 application to any public authority covered under this act, then notwithstanding anything contained in any other law, the lokpal shall pass appropriate orders, as soon as possible but in not more than a week, directing appropriate authorities, including police, to take such steps as directed by the lokpal to provide adequate security to that person, to register criminal cases against those who are issuing threats and also to take all such steps necessary to mitigate circumstances leading to such threat: provided that if the threat is imminent, the lokpal may decide to act immediately, within a few hours to prevent physical assault on that person15 22 of 2005 20(d) if a person complains that he has already been physically assaulted on account of making an allegation under this act and if the lokpal is satisfied after conducting inquiries that the person has been assaulted because of his having made an allegation under this act or for filing an under right the information act, 2005 application in any of the public authorities covered under this act, then notwithstanding anything else contained in any other law, the lokpal shall pass such orders, as soon as possible but in not more than twenty-four hours, directing the concerned authorities to take such steps as directed by the lokpal to provide adequate security to that person, to register criminal cases and also to ensure that no further harm is done to that person49 of 1988 25(e) if the whistleblower has alleged an act punishable under the prevention of corruption act, 1988 then for cases under clause (c), the lokpal may and for cases under clause (d), the lokpal shall, assign the allegations made by that person to a special team, put it on a fast track and complete investigations in that case in not more than a month30 49 of 1988 35(f) if the whistleblower has alleged an act punishable under any law other than the prevention of corruption act, 1988 then for cases under clause (c), the lokpal may and for cases under clause (d), the lokpal shall, direct the agency which has the powers to enforce that law to assign the allegations made by the whistleblower to a special team, put it on a fast track and complete investigation in that case in such time as directed by the lokpal(g) the lokpal shall have the powers to issue directions to appropriate agencies in the cases covered under clause (f), monitor such investigations and if necessary, issue directions to that agency to do the investigations in the manner as directed by the lokpal40(3) if any complainant requests that his identity should be kept secret, the lokpal shall ensure the same and shall prescribe detailed procedures on how such complainants shall be dealt with(4) the lokpal shall issue orders to the public authorities to make necessary changes in their policies and practices to prevent recurrence of victimization chapter v grievance redressal systems21 (1) each public authority shall be responsible for ensuring the preparation and implemention of citizens' charter, within a reasonable time, and not exceeding one year from the coming into force of this actcitizens' charter and grievance redressal(2) every citizens' charter shall enumerate the commitments of the respective public authority to the citizens, officer responsible for meeting such commitment and the time limit within which the commitment shall be met5(3) each public authority shall designate an official called public grievance redressal officer, whom a complainant shall approach for any violation of the citizens' charter(4) every public authority shall review and revise its citizens' charter at least once every year through a process of public consultation(5) the lokpal may by an order direct any public authority to make such changes in their citizens' charter as are mentioned in that order10(6) no grievance shall be accepted by the lokpal if fifteen days have not elapsed aftersubmission of complaint by the complainant with the public grievance  redressal officer of public authority:provided that if the lokpal feels that considering the gravity or urgency of the grievance, it is necessary to do so, the lokpal may decide to accept such grievance earliers also15 chapter vi authorities and staff of lokpal22 (1) there shall be a chief vigilance officer in each public authority to be selected and appointed by the lokpalchief vigilance officer(2) the chief vigilance officer shall not be from the same public authority and shall be a person of impeccable integrity and ability to take proactive meaures against corruption20(3) the chief vigilance officer shall be responsible for accepting complaints against any public authority and shall transfer the complaints related to other public authorities within two days of receipt25(5) the chief vigilance officer shall be responsible for carrying out all such responsibilities as assigned to him from time to time by the  lokpal including dealing with complaints in the manner as laid down by the lokpal from time to time:49 of 1988provided that the complaints which require investigations under the prevention of corruption act, 1988 shall be transferred to the investigative wing of the lokpal:30provided further that the complaints, other than  grievances, against officers of the level of joint secretary or above shall not be dealt by the chief vigilance officer and shall be transferred to the lokpal, who shall set up a committee of chief vigilance officers of three other public authorities to inquire into such complaintstaff of lokpal23 (1) there shall be such officers and employees as may be prescribed to assist the lokpal in the discharge of his functions under this act35(2) the number and categories of officer and employees shall be decided by the lokpal in consultation with the government(3) the categories, recruitment and conditions of service of the officers and employees referred in sub-section (1) including such special conditions or special pay as may be necessary for enabling them to act without fear in the discharge of their functions, shall be such as may be prescribed according to the recommendations of the lokpal:40provided that no official, whose integrity is in doubt, shall be considered for being posted in lokpal:provided further that all officers and employees, who work in lokpal on deputation or otherwise shall be eligible for the same terms and conditions as prescribed under this clause45(4) without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (1), the lokpal may for thepurpose of conducting investigations under this act utilize the services of—(a) any officer or investigating agency of the government; or (b) any officer or investigating agency of any other government with the priorconcurrence of that government; or(c) any person or any other agency5(5) the officers and other employees referred to in sub-section (1) shall be under the administrative and disciplinary control of the lokpal(6) the lokpal shall have the power to choose its own officials for which the lokpal may enlist officials on deputation from other government agencies for a fixed tenure or it may enlist officials on permanent basis from other government agencies or it may appoint people from outside on permanent basis or on a fixed tenure basis10(7) the staff and officers shall be entitled to such pay scales and other allowances, which may be different and more than the oridinary pay scales in the central government, as are decided by the lokpal from time to time, in consultation with the prime minister, so as to attract honest and efficient people to work in the lokpal1524 (1) the central vigilance commission act, 2003 shall stand repealedrepeal and savings45 of 2003(2) notwithstanding such repeal, any act or thing done under the said act shall be deemed to have been done under this act and may be continued and completed under the corresponding provisions of this act20(3) all inquiries and investigations and other disciplinary proceedings pending before the central vigilance commission and which have not been disposed of, shall stand transferred to and be continued by the lokpal as if they were commenced before him under this act25(4) notwithstanding anything contained in any act, the posts of the secretary and other officers and employees of the central vigilance commission are hereby abolished and they are hereby appointed as the secretary and other officers and employees of the lokpal(5) the salaries, allowances and other terms and conditions of services of the said secretary, officers and other employees shall, until they are varied, be the same as to which they were entitled to immediately before the commencement of this act30(6) all vigilance administration under the control of all ministries/departments of the central government, corporations established by or under any central act, government companies, societies and local authorities owned or controlled by the central government shall stand transferred, along with its personnel, assets and liabilities to the lokpal for all purposes35(7) the personnel working in vigilance wings of the agencies mentioned in subsection (6) shall be deemed to be on deputation to the lokpal for a period of five years from the date they are transferred to the lokpal:provided, the lokpal may decided to repatriate any personnel anytime (8) the department from where any personnel have been transferred to the lokpal under sub-section (6) shall cease to have any control over the administration and functions of transferred personnel40(9) the lokpal shall rotate the personnel and create vigilance wing of each department in such a way that no personnel from the same department get posted for vigilance functions in the same department45(10) no person shall be employed with the lokpal against whom any vigilance inquiry or any criminal case is pending at the time of being considered| 25           ||---------------|| investigation || wing of       || lokpal       || 49 of 1988   |5| (                                                                                                   ||-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|| act, 1988 such officers of investigation wing, upto the level as decided by the lokpal, shall       || have, in relation to the investigation and arrest of persons throughout india, in connection        || with investigation of complaints under this act, all the powers, duties, privileges and liabilities || which members of delhi special police establishment have in connection with the investigation       || of offences committed therein                                                                      |49 of 198810| (                                                                                          ||--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|| investigation and prosecution of offences alleged to have been committed under the         || prevention corruption act, 1988, shall stand transferred, along with its employees, assets || and liabilities to the lokpal for all purposes                                            |(4) the part of the delhi special police establishment, which has been transferred under sub-section (3), shall form part of investigation wing of the lokpal(5) the central government shall cease to have any control over the transferred part and its personnel15(6)the salaries, allowances and other terms and conditions of services of the personnel transferred under sub-section (3) shall be the same as to which they were entitled to immediately before the commencement of this act(7) all cases which were being dealt by that part of the delhi special police establishment, which has been transferred under sub-section (3), shall stand transferred to the lokpal20(8) after completion of investigation in any case, the investigation wing shall present the case to an appropriate bench of the lokpal, which shall decide whether to grant permission for prosecution or not25| 26                                               |   ( | 1                                                                                       ||---------------------------------------------------|-----|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|| separately and as per provisions of this section |     |                                                                                         || complaints                                        |     |                                                                                         || against                                           |     |                                                                                         || officers or                                       |     |                                                                                         || employees of                                      |     |                                                                                         || lokpal                                           |     |                                                                                         || (                                                 |   2 | ) there shall be a separate wing in the lokpal to deal with complaints against officers || or staff of the lokpal                           |     |                                                                                         |49 of 198830| (                                                                                      ||----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|| under the prevention of corruption act, 1988 or a misconduct or a dishonest inquiry or || investigation                                                                         |(4) as soon as such a complaint is received the same shall be displayed on the website of the lokpal along with the contents of the complaint(5) investigations into each such complaint shall be completed within a month of itsreceipt3545 of 1860(6) in addition to examining the allegations against the said official, the allegationsshall especially be examined against sections 107, 166, 167, 177, 182, 191, 192, 196, 199, 200, 201, 202, 204, 217, 218, 219, 463, 464, 468, 469, 470, 471, 474 of the indian penal code, 1860(7) if, during the course of investigations, the lokpal feels that the charges are likely tobe sustained, the lokpal shall divest such officer of all his responsibilities and powers and shall place him under suspension4049 of 1988(8) if after completion of inquiry or investigations, the lokpal decides to prosecutethat person under the prevention of corruption act, 1988 or holds him guilty of any misconduct or of conducting dishonest inquiry or investigations, then that person shall not work with the lokpal anymore45(9) the lokpal shall either dismiss that person from the job, if that person is in theemployment of the lokpal, or shall repatriate him, if he is on deputation:provided that no order under this clause shall be passed without giving reasonable opportunity of being heard to the accused person:provided further that order under this clause shall be passed with fifteen days of completion of investigations5(10) the lokpal shall take all steps to ensure that all inquiries and investigations on complaints against its own staff and officials are conducted in most transparent and honest manner chapter vii miscellaneous10protection of action takens in good faith27  (1) no suit, prosecution, or other legal proceedings shall lie against the chairperson or members or against any officer, employee, agency or person referred to in section 15(4) in respect of anything which is done in good faith while acting or purporting to act in the discharge of his official duties under this act15(2) no proceedings of the lokpal shall be held to be bad for want of form and except on the ground of jurisdiction, no proceedings or decision of the lokpal shall be liable to be challenged, reviewed, quashed or called in question in any court of ordinary civil jurisdiction28  (1) every public servant, other than those mentioned in section 2(k) (i) to (iii), shall within three months after the commencement of this act and thereafter before the 30th june of every year submit to the head of the public authority, in the form prescribed by lokpal, a statement of his assets and liabilities and those of the members of his family20public servants to submit annual property statements(2) public servants mentioned in section 2 (k) (i) to (iii) shall submit their returns in a format prescribed by the lokpal to the lokpal with the aforesaid time lines(3) the head of each public authority shall ensure that all such statements are put on the website by the 31st of august of that year25(4) if no such statement is received by the head of that public authority from any such public servant within the time specified in sub-section (1), the head of that public authority shall direct the concerned public servant to do so immediately and if within next one month, the public servant concerned does not submit such statement, the head shall stop the salary and allowances of that public servant till he submits such statement30(5) the lokpal on new compliance sub-section (1) and (2) may initiate prosecution against such public servant under section 176 indian panel code, 186045 of 1860 35(6) if any public servant furnishes any statement, which is subsequently found to be incorrect, then the lokpal, in addition to taking action against the said public servant under other sections of this act, may also impose a penalty upto a maximum of fifty per cent of the value of the additional property subsequently detected(7) the lokpal shall also intimate such information to the income tax department for appropriate actionexplanation—in this section ''family of a public servant'' means the spouse and such children and parents of the public servant as are dependent on him4029 (1) the lokpal shall be competent to delegate its powers and assign functions to the officials working in the lokpalpower to delegate and assign functions(2) all functions carried out and powers exercised by such officials shall be deemed to have been so done by the lokpal:provided that the following functions shall be performed by the benches and cannot be delegated:45(i) granting permission to initiate prosecution in any case;(ii) order for dismissal of any government servant under ccs conduct rules;(iii) passing orders under section 10 on complaints against officials and staff of the lokpal;5(iv) pass orders in cases of complaints, other than grievances, against officers ofthe level of joint secretary and above 30 (1) the preliminary inquiry under sub-section (1) of  section 19 of this act becompleted within a month of receipt of complaint:time limits to be fixed for inquiryprovided that the inquiry officer shall be liable for an explanation if the inquiry is notcompleted within this time limit(2) investigation into any allegation shall be completed within six months, and in anycase, not more than one year, from the date of receipt of complaint10penalty for false complaint31 (1) notwithstanding anything contained in this act, if someone makes any false orfrivolous complaint under this act, the lokpal may impose such fines on that complainant as it deems fit:provided that no fine can be imposed without giving such person a reasonableopportunity of being heard15preventive measures(2) fines imposed under sub-section (1) shall be recoverable as dues of land revenue 32 (1) the lokpal shall, at regular intervals either study itself or cause to be studiedthe functioning of all public authorities falling within its jurisdiction and in consultation with respective public authority, issue such directions as it deems fit to prevent incidence of corruption in future20removal of difficulties(2) the lokpal shall also be responsible for creating awareness about this act and involving general public in curbing corruption and maladministration33 notwithstanding anything contained in this act, the president, in consultation with the lokpal or on request of the lokpal may, by order, make such provision,—25| (                                   | i   | ) for brining the provisions of this act into effective operation;           ||-------------------------------------|-----|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|| (                                   | ii  | ) for continuing the inquiries and investigations pending before the central || vigilance commission by the lokpal |     |                                                                              || overriding                          |     |                                                                              || effect of the                       |     |                                                                              || act                                |     |                                                                              || 30                                  |     |                                                                              || power to make                       |     |                                                                              || regulations                        |     |                                                                              |34 the provisions of this act and the rules and regulations made thereunder shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent contained in any other law for the time being in force35 the lokpal shall have power to make its own regulations for the smooth functioning of the institution and to effectively implement various provisions of this actpower to make rules3536 (1) the government may, by notification in the official gazette, make rules for thepurpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act:provided that such rules shall be made only in consultation and with the approval ofthe lokpal(2) in particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions, such rules may provide for,—(i) the allowance and pensions payable to and other conditions of service of thechairperson and members of the lokpal;40(ii) the powers of a civil court which may be exercised by the lokpal underclause (h) of sub-section (2) of section 10(iii) the salary, allowances, recruitment and other conditions of service of theemployees of the lokpal;45(iv) any other matter for which rules have to be made are necessary under thisact(3) any rule made under this act may be made with retrospective effect and when such a rule is made the reasons for making the rule shall be specified in a statement laid before both houses of the parliament chapter viii amendment to the prevention of corruption act, 198837 in the prevention of corruption act, 1988,—(a) section 19 shall be omittedamendment of prevention of corruption act(b) after section 16 the following section shall be inserted namely:—"16a the special judge on conviction of an accused shall also qualify the loss caused to the government  and apportion that amount to various convicts from whom this money shall be recovered as arrears of land revenue" (c) in section 7, for the words "six months but which may extend to five years"the words "five years which may extend to life imprisonment" shall be substituted(d) in section 8, for the words "six months but which may extend to five years"the words "five years which may extend to life imprisonment" shall be substituted(e) in section 9, for the words "six months but which may extend to five years"the words "five years which may extend to life imprisonment" shall be substituted(f) in section 10, for the words "six months but which may extend to five years"the words "five years which may extend to life imprisonment" shall be substituted(g) in section 11, for the words "six months but which may extend to five years"the words "five years which may extend to life imprisonment" shall be substituted(h) in section 12, for the words "six months but which may extend to five years"the words "five years which may extend to life imprisonment" shall be substituted(i) in section 13, sub-section (2) for the words "one year but which may extend to seven years" the words "five years which may extend to life imprisonment" shall be substituted(j) in section 14, for the words "two years but which may extend to seven years"the words "five years which may extend to life imprisonment" shall be substituted(k) in section 15, for the words "three years" the words "life imprisonment" may be substituted statement of objects  and reasonsthe idea to bring in an institution like lokpal to look into allegations of corruption, etc, is borrowed from the office of the ombudsman which was set up in scandinavian countries in sixtees after thorough examination, consultations and discussions, the government of india entrusted this subject for making appropriate recommendations with regard to setting up of the lokpal to the first administrative reforms commission (arc) in 1966 after examining the proposal threadbare, the first arc recommended the constitution of a two-tier machinery the lokpal at the centre, and the lokayukta at the state level the government of india considered the recommendation favourably and, for the first time, the lokpal bill was introduced in the fourth lok sabha in 1968 and was passed the next year but, unfortunately, the bill lapsed due to dissolution of the lok sabha then, the bill was introduced again in 1971, 1977, 1985, 1989, 1996, 1998 and 2001 every time the bill was introduced, but due to one reason or the other, it could not become an actindia is a democratic country and to uphold the values of democracy, or any other system of governance for that matter, a clean public life, the standards and character of political parties have to be built on grounds of moral conscience corruption in public life has become rampant in the country and with the recent scams like 2g spectrum, allocation of s-band spectrum, adarsh housing society, commonwealth games, 2010 delay in unearthing black money, etc, it becomes all the more necessary and important to immediately put in place the institution of lokpal apart from corruption by people who are in public life, corruption in executive has also shot up tremendously so, the proposed bill justifies its enactment in every respectthere is no doubt that some of the states have appointed the lokayuktas to look into corruption cases against people who are in the public life but, not all the states have enacted the lokayuktas so if the proposed bill is passed, it would pave the way for enactment of the lokayuktas in states where it was  not introducedthe proposed bill aims to cover the prime minister, ministers, members of parliament, judges of the supreme court and high courts, government servants, etcthe bill also aims to protect the whistleblower who faces threat of professional harm, including but not limited to illegitimate transfers, denial of promotions, denial of appropriate perks, departmental proceedings, discrimination or physical harm or is actually subjected to such harmthe bill seeks to achieve above objectives hence, this billdr mv  mysura  reddy financial memorandumclause 3 of the bill empowers the government for establishment of the institution of the lokpal clause 5 deals with the salary and allowances of the chairperson and members of the lokpal and creation of the lokpal fund clause 23 deals with the officers and employees of the lokpal and their salary and allowances, etc the bill, if enacted, will involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india however, at this stage,  it is not possible to quantify the exact amount of recurring and non-recurring expenditure to be involved for putting in place the institution of the lokpal memorandum  regarding  delegated  legislationclauses 29 and 35 of the bill empowers the lokpal to delegate powers and assign functions to officials working in the lokpal and to make its own regulations clause 36 gives powers to the central government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of the bill these rules will relate to matters of detail only the delegation of legislative power is, therefore, of a normal character rajya  sabha———— a billto provide for the establishment of effective anti-corruption and grievance redressal systemsat the centre by creating effective deterrent against corruption and also to provide effective protection to whistleblowers and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto————(shri mv mysura reddy, mp)gmgipmrnd—972rs(s3)—05082011