Join CFI and play the "If I were Lokpal" game

1. Corruption Free India
Building a Consensus to make India
Corruption Free

2. CFI·s Single Point Agenda
´ Pass a strong but not necessarily perfect
Lokpal Bill in the Monsoon Session, 2011µ
while building consensus on real
outcomes that are desired from the
Lokpal as an institution.

3. Why Monsoon Session 2011
‡ Corruption kills thousands of people every day
by depriving them of efficient and low cost
goods and services such as food, health,
electricity, housing, water etc that they are
entitled to.
‡ Imagine several Mumbai like tragedies for
every day that an effective anti-corruption
mechanism is not implemented.
‡ Further delay will not give us a perfect bill.
‡ Bill can be amended based on experience.

4. What is a strong but not perfect
Lok Pal Bill?
‡ A Bill that achieves at least the following outcomes:
‡ Outcome #1 ² Creating an environment that will allow
the Lokpal to succeed
‡ Outcome #2 ² Catching petty corruption
‡ Outcome #3 ² Catching big ticket corruption
‡ Outcome #4 ² Preventing petty corruption

5. ‡ Outcome #5- Preventing big ticket corruption
‡ Outcome #6 ² Avoiding privacy invasion
‡ Outcome #7 ² Accelerating practical projects instead of
delaying them
‡ Outcome #8 ² No fear for the honest, high fear for the
dishonest with strict penalties increasing according to
the degree of corruption.
‡ Outcome #9 ² Recovering corruption monies from old
scams
‡ Outcome #10 ² Monitoring the Lokpal to prevent abuse
of power

6. Who is CFI ?
Educated young citizens of India (a growing
tribe that resides in different parts of the
country and comes from varied educational
backgrounds) who passionately want a
corruption free India

7. What will CFI do ?
± Public letter to Law Minister dated 26 July, 2011
http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/60931261?acc
ess_key=key-1x8wxpy6lxzcde7zhic8
± Create a google group: input-
cfi@googlegroups.com which anyone can join and
where they can view and give their idea-based
input.
± Prepare weekly summaries of the idea-based
inputs and comments received in the group.

8. Who can join CFI ?
‡ Anyone who is in favour of a corruption free
India can join and provide an idea-based
input.
‡ CFI has no structure so it will not endorse a
particular idea or person.
‡ CFI is only driven by its single point agenda.

9. Objective and Benefit of getting
involved
‡ The objective of getting involved is to offer
simple, short and implementable
ideas/suggestions/examples that may be used
in the Bill or may help in formulation of rules
and guidelines post passage of the Bill.
‡ The benefit of getting involved is the
opportunity to present simple, logical and
implementable ideas that might significantly
reduce corruption and help achieve real
outcomes.

10. Get Involved - Today
‡ Join input-cfi@googlegroups.com
‡ Get others to join (or help them if they do
not know how to join a google-group)
‡ Post your idea-based input by playing the
simple game: If I were Lokpal
‡ Alternatively, generate and communicate an
idea in any other way.
‡ You may also e-mail your specific comments
on the Bill to this group.

11. If I were Lokpal Game
‡ Pick up an existing function of the Lokpal or create
one.
‡ Describe in bullet points its leadership based
objective.
‡ Include a real or likely situation in brief and try and
define it as petty corruption or big-ticket corruption,
systemic corruption or context-specific corruption
etc.
‡ Examine the effective role played by you in resolving
this corruption using a technology, a process etc
‡ Mention the specific outcome achieved (need not be
from the ten referred to above)

12. If I were Lokpal Game
‡ Do not restrict your thinking.
‡ Try and keep the input short and focus on the
idea that you have developed.
‡ See if you can suggest an idea that is
implementable.
‡ You are free to modify the game if you so
desire.
‡ Have you looked at ideas from foreign anti-
corruption bureaus?

13. Playing the Game: Sample Idea 1
‡ Corruption Prevention Wing
- Staffed by experts who help public servants with
prevention plans
‡ Situation
Before LokPal: Police take bribes for filing FIR s.

14. Playing the Game: Sample Idea 1
‡ After Lokpal - What Changed?:
Police prepared a corruption prevention plan with
advise from the Prevention Wing and citizens like
you. Plan used undercover agents and
communication that you could get caught red-
handed while taking bribes.
‡ Outcome: Bribes for F.I.R s reduced
(Note: Focus of this sample idea was use of prevention plans
and communication which eliminated corruption without
punishing many people)

15. Playing the Game: Sample Idea 2
‡ Objective
Have a metric to assess the existing levels of
corruption in an institution and measure
improvements over time
‡ Suggestion
Engage third parties to assess through credible
survey mechanisms the level of corruption in various
institutions on a quarterly basis.

16. Playing the Game: Sample Idea 2
‡ Necessary Provision in the Bill
A provision that ties the survey to an implementable
action either in the form of an incentive or a penalty
on the institution.
(Note: Focus of this sample idea was to implement a social
audit mechanism)

17. DO s and DONT s
‡ Some guidelines to be followed:
‡ Only submit either idea-based inputs or specific
comments on the Bill to input-cfi@googlegroups.com
‡ Any other communication (e.g. to the administrator)
is to be sent to 2011cfi@gmail.com
‡ Do not make any vulgar, defamatory or spiteful
comments on either group.