Submission Form: Case Information Sheets Name Telephone HITESH BHATT Function Organisation To eradicate corrupt practices from the system & improve living standard of people. INDIVIDUAL. Working individually with my colleague Mr. Atul Karkare. Address City Hitesh H Bhatt. 35/C, DAHIBA NAGER SOCIETY, OPP: SHREYAS SCHOOL, MANJALPUR NAKA, VADODARA. VADODARA-390011. GUJARAT. Country INDIA. WIN member Yes YES, I AM WIN MEMBER SINCE 25SEPTEMBER-2008. No +91-9824675356 To communicate & exchange views on matters please contact-+919904239703 Email hiteshbhatt26@yahoo.com Website Yet to be established. 1. Title of your Case Information Sheet As a matter of fact since 1998- to till date to date (11-12 years) I have been fighting hard with all the constitutional bodies to get basic civic amenities at my residence newly built house. Since 1998 I have been facing in-justice, delay in carrying out field work to let me enjoy civic amenities like drinking water connection (for 10-11 years), conspiracies amongst government bodies to deny me in-directly civic amenities like water connection, sanitation sewerage line, cleanliness surrounding area, electricity connection (for 5-6 years), leading approached road as per town planning road approved by authority, street light, un-healthy atmosphere living condition, pathetic situatution, trauma, justice. The delay in delivering justice, in giving civic amenities is intentionally & wittingly committed by the systems like administration/judiciary/political & media. As the custodians of the systems are fearful of getting exposed. Hence my fight against all these manipulation & political maneuvering for political mileage should be considered as my activities or initiatives considered as my activities or projects I have taken up to eradicate corruption & un-ethical practices from the systems. In my all written arguments with the systems I have stressed the need upon having a good, honest & transparent good governance out of my sheer hard work, physical pains, trauma, time consume to get civic amenities, incurred expenses, mental torture I have finally been able to get my own administrative efforts water connection & electricity connection at my home 15-March-2007 (drinking water connection10-11 years) & 27-May-2003 (Electricity5-6 years.). After fighting hard for 10-11 years I do all the activities in limited fund resources & if at all I empowered by a world renowned body like you I am sure I can turn the table on errant systems & push the corrupt official to a dead end. All my grievances have occurred at HITESH. H BHATT. Address: R.R.Patel bunglow, 51/1, Plot no-3, Nr. Shanti sager society, B/H. Ram vatika society, B/H. Wadi-Mohmmad talav, Waghodiya road, Vadodara-390 019. Gujarat. (INDIA). At where I lived with my family last since 11-12 up to October-2008 years. In nutshell to view & implement these practices in larger perspective your feedback is of more importance so as to enable me to set the guiding principle to set the ball on rolling to eradicate corruption. Innovation in any form is always welcomed without which the change is impossible & the desired results in a stipulated time period are not expected. It is always said & firmly believed by the intellectuals in India & world level that all those natural resources which are needed to up-lift the living standards of any community --- all these resources are amply available in India. However, due to high scale of corrupt practices in bureaucracy administration, judiciary & in most lethargic ill-literate political system, the state India has still remained backward in all walks of life. The systems prevailing in India need to be revamped so as to instill the sense of accountability in the minds of custodians. And for this the contribution of people is also needed along with the honest & literate participation of political WILL. There for I Hitesh Bhatt---- as an individual, openly declare my participation to change the course of corrupt & lethargic & crippled administration & judiciary systems norms. The problems being faced by me is mainly attributed to not succumbing to malicious tactics of the officials leading to corruption. As said above I need an empowerment & a forum to undertake activities to bring about the solutions in the area of social inequalities, right to have basic civic amenities like drinking water connection, house hold domestic electricity connection, cleanliness surrounding resident area, sewerage sanitation line, street light, etc…, social-economic up-liftman of poor & needy, education to all, poverty alleviation, democratic rights to all in real sense etc…… I, the claimant, am facing the problems related to not being able to enjoy the basic civic amenities for the past 11-12 years in spite of falling eligible with respect to my individuality. As the corrupt motivated practices in all systems have really deprived me from enjoying all these civic amenities like drinking water connection, house hold domestic electricity connection, cleanliness surrounding resident area, sewerage sanitation line, street light, etc…, non enjoying all these civic amenities. Moreover, I have the experience of grass root level of how a common is forced to pay the price (bribe) when he does not succumb to malicious wrong practices adopted by the systems & their officials. To a larger extent the communities affected immensely over the years will benefit a lot. The new ideas & practices, which will be adopted, will usher in a new era & a precedent will automatically get set for India & world. Revenue generation can come through only when the appropriate forum is allocated. By implementing new ideas finally the corruption level will definitely go down, &, the money being saved in stopping corruption that save money can be utilized in developing infrastructure & improving overall good governance. The environmental problems have arisen due to abuse of official power, abuse of humanely values. And once the values of humanity are restored the environmental problems will vanish in the short period of time. The systems have also grossly failed to notice the environmental problems as well. I am better equipped to address problems at least in the area in which I am living in India. A collective effort is required the problems being faced by the communities cannot be redressed or sorted out by any individuals, or any organizations. It needs participation from the bodies such as UN, UNO, NGOS, Heads of states; individuals, world banks, world-renowned celebrities, intellectuals etc…… can be assessed in appropriate forum. In today's fast growing world the issue of corruption has not been properly addressed due to this reason many developing countries have remained socio-economically poorest of the poor there for the basic socio-economic needs are yet to be made available to the people. Unless & until the political heads of all the countries focus & concentrate on this social menace the corrupt practices will not vanish from this earth. As the need of the hour is to understand, design & implement the practices, which can lead to annihilate the demon called corruption. 2. Please shortly describe your organisation, its aims and objectives. (max. 200 words) I do not run any organization, however, the motive of committing corruption by the people working in the system has forced me to taken on the daunting challenges of corruption threatening, abusing the society & perishing the human values. My only aim & objective is to establish a society in the world which can be free of corruption & can encourage the sustainable effort to value based ethics. So awaken & rise up to live up to phenomenon called justice of right kind, Justice of the right kind, Justice of appropriateness, Justice of quality standard, Justice of propriety, Justice of high moral values, Justice of conviction for abiding by the truth, Justice of keeping God fear in mind, Justice of allowing India to prosper, Above all justice is “SATYAMEVA JAYTE”. And people of any democratic system are sovereign. Justice is the implementation of law hence the law should not be abused. To be at truth or untruth you need to pay a price. For truth you need to pay a price for being in the corrupt & lethargic system. For untruth you need to pay a price for being in noncorrupt system. 3. What are the local corruption problems that triggered the initiative? Please try to describe the direct impact that corruption had on citizens by providing examples (e.g. roughly estimate the money lost to corrupt practice) (max. 300 words) Please refer my abbreviated report which comprises of written arguments made be me in administrative department/system & the orders I have received from judiciary system Which narrate the heinous acts committed by the whole system/opponents, these orders promulgated by judiciary corroborate my innocence to a larger extent. Therefore the fund allotted as shown in the tabulation will not go in corruption. The figures reflected the accounts of fund allotted for the last 10-11 years ________ 6,538,226,585,400.18 Crores and 97,920,000,000.00 Crores approx. 4. Action taken by the initiative/ Anti-Corruption Strategy (max. 300 words in bullets) o Negotiating & persuading the people o Meeting & bringing into the working in the system administration & notice of the higher officials to let judiciary not to exploit & harass me to the lower hierarchy know that the acquire basic civic amenities like water corruption is an offence. connection, electricity connection, sanitation sewerage line, leading approached road, street light, cleanliness surrounding residence etc... All civic amenities in the form of forcing me to pay bribe. o Knocked the doors of all constitutional o Trying my best even after 12-13 bodies including the office of President years of struggle to seek justice I of Republic of India/Prime Minister of started knocking the doors of India/Supreme court of India/High court world renowned bodies like UN, of Gujarat/Chief Minister of Gujarat. & World Bank, TI, WWC, WWF, the apex court & offices of India. WHO, UNO, WIN etc… to pressure on Indian systems to enable me & all Indian people & whole world people to lead a dignified life. o Interested in establishing a society o Need a platform of world body to which must be free of corrupt practices represent my self with my not only confined to Indian society but colleague Mr. Atul Karkare serve the society of world community. the affected & poor people of world community. More Information: The thought put across are based on the person experience. Where these is poverty, illiteracy, criminalization of politics, in the guise of manifesting flaunted ethical political values the practice of corruption is blossoming in the Indian society whole world. In the present context India, it seems, will remain a poor country. Because through India is one of the largest democratic countries in the world. But tainted politicians, dormant & careless bureaucrats, the media & the officers in judiciary have immensely deprecated the systems made to govern the democratic values. One can feel astonished when one gets to know that even in judiciary the officials including jury members are found corrupt, sluggish, lethargic, dormant, and capricious. And it is not far too away on a given day the verdict will be sold solely. On what amount has been paid to jurist either by an accused or an innocent. The verdict will be purely decided like an item is sold in auction. Presently the legal cases being fought by me & my friend against the two public bodies have forced me to take the recourse of law of this land (India). This tangle has arisen due to me not being able to give vent of CORRUPTION as I was & am up against the un-ethical & abused moral values. To get basic & fundamental civic amenities like newly build house electricity connection, water connection, sewerage line, cleanliness surrounding my resident, streetlight, leading approached road as per town planning. I need not have to knock the doors of judiciary system, the office of the president of India, the Supreme court of India, the National Consumer commission & other all government bodies like district administration, state administration, national administration (i.e. Administration system, Gujarat Electricity Board, The Vadodara Municipal Corporation, however, surprisingly none of the above has ever shown any keen interest to resolve this tangle since 1998- till date (11-12 years.) Had I been able to fulfill the illegitimate demands of these culprits then I am quite confident that I would have not been required to face humiliation, harassment & mental stress. Not only I have been made mentally harassed but I have also been made to suffer a lot financially. This awesome experience has also led me to not being able to contribute towards my family. Those who are defalcating they are most appropriately described as corrupt people but I also attribute lethargic, errant, unscrupulous, impolite, imprudent, insolent, delinquents, sluggish, dormant, capricious, the people serving in a democratic administration, judiciary & legislation systems as corrupt as defalcator. Such people are in mind more dangerous than the corrupts & unmasked corrupts. So called rules in a democratic system neither let you live happily nor allow you to live peacefully. Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. Corruption has dire economic & social consequences. The corruption…………………………………………corruption………… 1. Threatens the sustainability of natural resources. 2. Relates social & economical developments. 3. Threatens domestic & international security. 4. Breeds’ social, economic & political crises. 5. Jeopardizes sound governance and ethics in the private sector. 6. Distorts national & international trade. 7. Undermines democratic values & the rule of law. 8. Traps millions of people in poverty & misery. Where as corrupt people will spread homicide & not spare the victim to live. As for me corruption is the biggest root cause social injustice, social in-equality, health, ill minded, whimsical, dull minded, sluggish, ill literate, dormant, lethargic, capricious, opportunist. There fore it is most imperative to invoke the human values based ethics & evolves better living conditions for all in a society. As otherwise I am strong believer in human values, philanthropist, god fearing, righteous, upholding just values for all, sincere, honest, just, believer in god, believer in law of my land, morally extending my best regards to my motherland & understand the problem others. 6. Please include a quote or an example of someone who benefited from the initiative. The initiative I have launched has benefited largely to the common people residing in & around my residential place/city. However, I & the people residing nearly my residence are yet to enjoy other basic amenities like sewage, sanitation, street lights, leading approached road, addressing the problem of breeding insects, un-hygienic living pathetic condition etc.. The other benefit the system has got is ___ the fund for development which is allotted to the constitutionally elected irresponsible representative will now be used selectively on the basis of proposed development schedule thus the expenditure made can be made public hence more accountability/transparency can be seen on the part of executers. Therefore the fund allotted as shown in the tabulation will not go in corruption. The figures reflected the accounts of fund allotted for the last 10-11 years _____ 6,538,226,585,400.18 Crores and 97,920,000,000.00 Crores approx. 7. What are the ‘Lessons Learned’? (max. 300 words in bullets) o People working in the systems will be more accountable & responsive. o Honesty will remain focused. o A new way of implementing ethical business can taken its own course. o Common people will not be abused for want of corruption. o Time taken to act upon the proposed matters can be curtailed. o Working environment at office & have can be pleasant & hassle free. More Information: Hello, Welcome____ I am HITESH BHATT. From city VADODARA, GUJARAT STATE, INDIA. - If you have anything to say/claim; please put yours views & ideas on my e-mail: hiteshbhatt26@yahoo.com - I have been visiting & participating in this world water forum-05 Istanbul (Turkey) only to know the ideas of the people concerned who have either been victimised or who are holding higher official position in the system ___ who may have contributed in resolving the civic amenities related problems. - I need to know the system of yours & whole world other country by which the norms are being governed. All this due to avoid corruption refused by me to do corrupt officials. Need is the mother of every invention. The subject to be focused on is a pivotal point, which should be addressed once for all to save the world community. Corruption is as hideous an act as terrorism. Which not only restricts the growth of a nation or world but to a larger extent it engulfs the interests of humanity. The act of corruption must be treated worldwide & it is as despicable as an act of terrorism. As of now, the entire world community is more sternly running after the annihilation of terrorism. Why the world community does not extend importance and hold the social menace of corruption as dangerous as terrorism? Almost all the nations in the world are crumbled under threat of corruption. Moreover the developing & under developed countries are most affected. Because in such countries the social inequality, illiteracy, over-population, poverty, inefficient administration, justice delay tactics, hunger, exploitation, deprivation of basic civic rights, corrupt political, illiterate political system, administration & judiciary system, lack of basic infrastructure, education, health etc… are the major attributes which contribute towards being at backwardness & blocking the way of fairer world. As far as I am concerned I feel that the menace of corruption can be best exterminated by judicial & good administration governance will only. But unfortunately the lack of political will is the only hindrance in exterminating the demon of corruption. Why is it so? ____ You know____ it is because of the criminalisation of politics. Political parties are not so much concerned about the nation or society or fairer world or the people or the world community. The political parties grab the power by way of political manoeuvrings, criminal activities, and conspiracies, nexus etc… Once the parties is voted to power its main objective will be to spread pseudo democratic values & along with plunder the money from state exchequer under the schemes which have never benefited the society & the people or world community for fairer world. In a world in which the peace is disturbed we cannot expect complete prosperity fairer world unless & until the nucleus of social problem called corruption is addressed in which the entire world community is permanently benefited. Other wise by holding & organizing world conferences & by inviting political heads of states would not serve the purpose of eradication of corruption. Corruption does not necessarily mean the embezzlement of money, corruption means in-justice, corruption means delay tactics, lethargic ness, sluggish ness, leaking the matter in other system, corruption means keeping bad eye on a woman, corruption means unnecessarily delaying those matters which can be taken up in quick time, corruption means misusing officials & constitutional power, corruption means colluding with others for selfish gain. The world needs to put up an organization, which should be autonomous in its nature of operation as similar as UNO. & the directives being promulgated time to time to be considered as code of conduct which should be binding on all states in the world. If for that matter any state or country is declining or reluctant to comply with the proposals made by the world forum that particular state or country should be debarred & boycotted for free trade & other political sanctions, economic sanctions to be imposed. More over in the Worl d Bank, international monetary fund should also stop funding to such a state or country. Which is reported to have been a highly corrupt state or country? To initiate such a movement the developed countries need to come to one platform. Further to set up such an organization it is not so difficult if the world community & the heads of economically prosperous states or country should enforce the call to set up this kind of an organization. I am putting the facts before you through me are not criticizing the systems prevailing here in India. As in India it is too difficult to get the desired services from the systems. Amongst all the systems illiterate & lethargic political system is most corrupt & in a democracy only political system is representing its own country when there arises a question of attending any world forum/agenda in the conference on the world level. Therefore I call upon the world community giant financial institutions of the world, prudent heads of states or country & right political parties from all over the world. To try & implement the suggestions made above to extricate & eliminate this caused social evil once for all enabling the people of the entire globe to live happily with their heads high, irrespective of origin of country, caste & creed, colour, social status, education, health, physical condition, poor, rich etc… As corruption entails problems relating & affecting to all above specified categories. Freedom is not only confined to geographical boundaries of country but every individual living on this earth also appreciates it. So awaken & rise up to live up to phenomenon called justice of right kind, Justice of the right kind, Justice of appropriateness, Justice of quality standard, Justice of propriety, Justice of high moral values, Justice of conviction for abiding by the truth, Justice of keeping God fear in mind, Justice of allowing India to prosper, Above all justice is “SATYAMEVA JAYTE”. And people of any democratic system are sovereign. Justice is the implementation of law hence the law should not be abused. To be at truth or untruth you need to pay a price. For truth you need to pay a price for being in the corrupt & lethargic system. For untruth you need to pay a price for being in noncorrupt system. 8. Why is this case a good example for other WIN members? If this practice is adopted elsewhere the resultant force of congenial working environment in the system can be more beneficial to the whole society. The best practice I have learnt over the 12-13 years is to keep spreading awareness of being courageous, righteous worthy of enacting principal ethical values. SUBJECT: A heaven on the earth in the absence of corruption. MESSAGE: In today's fast growing world the issue of corruption has not been properly addressed due to this reason many developing countries have remained socio-economically poorest of the poor there for the basic socio-economic needs are yet to be made available to the people. Unless & until the political heads of all the countries focus & concentrate on this social menace the corrupt practices will not vanish from this earth. As the need of the hour is to understand, design & implement the practices, which can lead to annihilate the demon called corruption. In nutshell to view & implement these practices in larger perspective your feedback is of more importance so as to enable me to set the guiding principle to set the ball on rolling to eradicate corruption. All this due to avoid corruption refused by me to do corrupt officials. The thought put across are based on the person experience. Where these is poverty, illiteracy, criminalization of politics, in the guise of manifesting flaunted ethical political values the practice of corruption is blossoming in the Indian society whole world. In the present context India, it seems, will remain a poor country. Because through India is one of the largest democratic countries in the world. But tainted politicians, dormant & careless bureaucrats, the media & the officers in judiciary have immensely deprecated the systems made to govern the democratic values. If my complaint is redressed in the right spirit & by law I am quite sure that the corruption of RS. 1, 93, 000/CRORES can be eradicated, if my services are sought for the betterment of nation. I do not only intend to aim at getting heavy compensation but equally interested to see that errant officials, who have taken the laws granted & behave in such a manner that they are above the law, are punished severely so as to set the precedent in the coming years. Not only this will lead to transparency but to great extent the custodians of administrative system, political system & lower judiciary system will remain fearful of laws and this will certainly lead to smooth & efficient running of system. The best way to punish these culprits will be to promulgate the verdict comprising an order which should state that the impairment charges to the litigant be paid directly from the individual accounts of errant officials. If this is done then only the errant officials will realize how stringent the punishment is!!!!!! Any official who has committed any wrong practice should be immediately sacked from the services, as, to me such an official is enemy of the nation & its society. He/she is as guilty as any anti-national element or a corrupt official. Where as corrupt people will spread homicide & not spare the victim to live. As for me corruption is the biggest root cause social injustice, social in-equality, health, ill minded, whimsical, dull minded, sluggish, ill literate, dormant, lethargic, capricious, opportunist. There fore it is most imperative to invoke the human values based ethics & evolves better living conditions for all in a society. As otherwise I am strong believer in human values, philanthropist, god fearing, righteous, upholding just values for all, sincere, honest, just, believer in god, believer in law of my land, morally extending my best regards to my motherland & understand the problem others. The attitude & delaying tactics in discharging duty bound obligations are definitely showing the signs of culpability committed by the errant systems. This has been done intentionally just for the sake of not being able to achieve desired corrupt motive. When I did not respond to pay off money un-officially the officials turned their back on me with gross dereliction of the duty. More over the mantel agony, which I have suffered, is immeasurable & irreparable ___ and judiciary has also failed to look into this aspect. Whom shall I have to hold responsible? Insecurity leads to - Ambiguity leads to - conspiracy & strong nexus leads to - corruption leads to - poverty, social imbalance, economic inequality, hampering trade & business, ignoring national interests, affecting the health of an individual & nation, depriving opportunity of a deserved, increasing crime rate, inspiring the next to commit wrongful act, fall in the respect for nation, criminalization of politics, Un-deserved getting installed at key position in systems. Honesty is the language, which even a deaf can hear & a blind can read. Each human being is entitled to live in a salubrious living conditions irrespective of what cast & creed he/she belongs to. The salubrious living conditions do not imply necessarily to be having good climatic conditions. In a way sobriety can be best defined & interpreted in terms of transparent & efficient administrative, political, & judiciary systems. The level of efficiency can only come through when the corrupt practices are addressed & annihilated. To do this job description of all working people whether the officials working in public, private or govt. offices, should be transparent & accountable to general public. This practice should percolate deep down to 4th class of official in hierarchy. The root cause of any problem relating to not having good living conditions for a human is corruption. As corruption will not allow majority of people to have an access to live in good social conditions only a handful of people are benefited & they are mainly those who are working in a system. In award categories & the submissions to be accepted under enlisted form i – xvii need financial resource participation coupled with efficient, honest & transparent human resources. The living environment evokes the need upon having a contribution from each one of the citizens, a citizen who is an individual working in a private firm or who may be self employed, entrepreneur or working in any democratic system. He should be fully aware of his own obligations towards making & maintaing an improved living environment. The public policy should be based on constant interaction between the public & the authorities. Complaint logged should be immediately redressed. Ward offices to be put up at several places in rural & urban areas. The functions of these wards would be to ensure proper water supply, maintaining hygienic & proper sanitary conditions, fostering plantation programme, catching stray animals, providing proper parking facility for vehicles, sanctioning new building layout with a view to providing basic civic amenities, amenities like domestic gas supply, domestic electricity connection & water supply. Pipelines should be laid underground, unauthorised connection or unauthorised putting up of stalls be removed, public transportation within the municipal limits to be made accessible & time bound, making public parks including public garden for amusement purpose, enhancing cultural activities etc. In order to achieve all this the public body has to have a strict vigil around the clock with adequate resources. 10. If the reader wants to learn more about your case, please refer to other sources of information (Literature, Website, etc) Being a WIN (Water Integrity Network) TI-GERMANY member any body from WIN can logon to my profile indicating all my struggle with the systems last 12-13 years & those who are not WIN members they can have an access on my profile on “ To Pay Basis” on email: hiteshbhatt26@yahoo.com 12. Have you worked with WIN before? If yes, when and what project? No, but surely would like to ___ provided I am given logistic social support including the financial aid to implement your core values in the systems & society along with my colleague Mr. Atul Karkare. WIN INDIVIDUAL MEMBER SINCE 25-SEPTEMBER-2008. THERE IS NO PROJECT WORK DONE. Important: In addition to the completed Submission form, please also submit the logo of your organisation and a picture to be included in the Case Information Sheet. Comments Reviewer (to be filled in by Reviewer) a) Reviewer I: You are all competent enough to be my reviewer-1, WIN hence I strongly believe that I can put my best efforts to decide what you have reviewed-WIN, TI-GERMANY. b) Reviewer II: You are all competent enough to be my reviewer-2, WWF-05 hence I strongly believe that I can put my best efforts to decide what you have reviewedWWC-GENEVA..