General Knowledge-Team Anna Hazare of Jan LokPal

Team Anna

1. Anna Hazare

is an Indian social activist who is recognized for his participation in the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. Hazare also contributed to the development and structuring of Ralegan Siddhi, a village in Parmer Taluka of Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India. He was awarded the  Padma Bhusan, the third-highest civilian award—by the Government of India in 1992 for his efforts in establishing this village as a model for others.

Anna Hazare started a hunger strike on 5 April 2011 to exert pressure on the Indian government to enact a strict anti-corruption law as envisaged in the Jan LokPal Bill, for the institution of an ombudsman with the power to deal with corruption in public offices. The fast led to nation-wide protests in support of Hazare. The fast ended on 9 April 2011, the day after the government accepted Hazare's demands. The government issued a gazette notification on the formation of a joint committee, constituted of government and civil society representatives, to draft the legislation.

Anna has been featured as the most influential person in Mumbai by a national daily newspaper. He has faced criticism for his authoritarian views on justice, including death as punishment for corrupt public officials and his alleged support for forced vasectomies as a method of family planning.

Year of Award or Honor	Name of Award or Honor	Awarding Organization
2008	Jit Gill Memorial Award	World Bank
2005	Honorary Doctorate	Gandhigram Rural University
2003	Integrity Award	Transparency International
1998	CARE International Award	CARE (relief agency)
1997	Mahaveer Award
1996	Shiromani Award
1992	Padma Bhusan	President of India
1990	Padma Shri	President of India
1989	Krishi Bhushana Award	Government of Maharashtra
1986	Indira Priyadarshini Vrikshamitra Award	Government of India

For further information,please go to the below website.

2. Arvind Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal is an Indian social activist and Ramon Magsaysay Award winner. He was born on 16th Jun3 1968 in Hisar, Haryana, India. He has completed his graduation from IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal. After passing out from IIT KGP, Kejriwal joined the Tata Steel and later he cracked the Civil Services Examination and he was allocated Indian Revenue Service. 

He has worked for Indian government for more than one decade and resigned from the service in 2006. 

He is among the top contributors in the two mass movements of the 21st century in India. He has extensively worked in the Right To Information and currently among the core team of Indian Against Corruption led by Gandhian Anna Hazare. 

3. Prashant Bhushan

Supreme Court Advocate Inherited refined qualities, like his father as both have fought public interest cases without money — If there is a conscience in the Indian judiciary, he represents it, among the few who still believe in judicial justice. Acidic when arguing against Supreme Court judgments which go so terribly wrong, or on contempt, he has the guts to do to what he think is right. The India nation needs many more intellectual lawyers like him, who can stake their best against a no-win situation. 

4. Kiran Bedi

Kiran Bedi, Ph.D, is India’s first and highest ranking (retired in 2007) woman officer who joined the Indian Police Service in 1972. Her experience and expertise include more than 35 years of tough, innovative and welfare policing.

She has worked with the United Nations as the Police Advisor to the Secretary General, in the Department of Peace Keeping Operations. She has represented India at the United Nations, and in International forums on crime prevention, drug abuse, police and prison reforms and women’s issues.

She has also been a National and an Asian Tennis champion.

Recipient of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award (also called the Asian Nobel Prize), and several other decorations, Dr. Bedi is an author of several books, anchors radio and television shows and is a columnist with leading newspapers and magazines. She is a sought after speaker on social, professional and leadership issues.

She is the founder of two NGOs,  Navjyoti and India Vision Foundation, which  reach out to over 10,000 beneficiaries daily, in the areas of  drug abuse treatment, schooling for children of prisoners, in addition to  education, training, counseling, and health care to the urban and rural poor.

Kiran Bedi has been voted as India's most admired woman and fifth amongst all Indians.