The next IAC Core Team member I introduce is Mr. Babubhai Vaghela from Ahmedabad, (IAC's Chief Patron and Internal Watchdog)
Babubhai is a BE (Mech Engg) with post gradute diploma in Business Management who had retired as Sr. Manager (Pricing, Planning and Economic Studies), Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Ahmedabad.
Babubhai is internationally famous for his extraordinarily effective use of his primary tool (which is not beyond the reach of a common man), The Right to Information Act 2005 extensively since November 2005 to expose blatantly corrupt organisations like Indian Oil Corporation which are being looted at all levels. In the process, Babubhai Vaghela got threatened and chargesheeted twice. for making RTI applications, RTI appeals and RTI follow up at the highest level in the country, including to the Supreme Court as a defendant.
Babubhai was also put under suspension, for making specific allegations against Director (Marketing) IOC Mumbai which exposed many national scandals prevalent in Oil Marketing Companies and their policies.
Babubhai has a terrific sense of achievement on RTI front by seeking information from MOP&NG, IOC, BPC, HPC, IBP. The information sought by him pertains mainly to the codification of HR Policies to control and reduce organisational arbitrariness, favouritism and discrimnation.
Babubhai Vaghela has put to use the information collected / compiled for corrective actions on organisational basis by making use of the Grievance Redressal Websites of Ministry of Personnel and Prime Minister of India viz.DARPG-PGRAMS and Directorate of Public Grievances.
Undaunted by the personal threats and victimisation for his selfless actions, our IAC's Chief Patron and internal Lokpal Babubhai Vaghela has made a conscious decision to continue with what he commenced irrespective of the harassment, the torturing, the victimisation and the suffering. The entire IOC Retired Officers Welfare Association has joined IAC due to Mr. Vaghela's personal magnetism and high esteem for taking on the corrupt system.
Mr Babubhai is unique in IAC movement, in that he is the only senior person whose indefagitable writing skills and choice personal language vocabulary exceeds even those of the National Convenor (live samples of which may be seen on his famous RTI Google group http://groups.google.com/group/Right-to-Information-Act-2005?hl=en).
Babubhai modestly describes himself as
a happy person using the Right to Information Act 2005 and Freedom of Expression lavishly for improving the systems and procedures to improve governance to help improve lives of the suffering masses.
Ash
Natiional Media Coordinator, IAC
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Ash IAC-Media <ash.indiaagainstcorruption@gmail.com> wrote:
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"Dr". Sarbajit Roy is a leading social activist and anti-corruption fighter. A qualified Mechanical Engineer from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, Sarbajit is known for his plain speaking, abrasive writing and warm heart.
A reformed computer hacker who had written India's first computer virus in 1983 and was briefly on the FBI's most wanted list of international cyber criminals, Roy has also successfully filed/argued in person many Public Interest Petitions in the Supreme Court of India since 1980's which have exposed corporate scandals including the "1-G telecom scandal" of the BJP where then Union Telecom Minister Pramod Mahajan had to resign inside a month and unpaid fees and penalties of Rs. 5,000 crores were recovered within 100 days, the "Set-Top-Box scam" in which dangerous reconditioned devices were being corruptly imposed on citizens of 4 metros by BJP at 10 times their cost and for which another Minister resigned, the "Delhi industries sealing drama" of the Congress Party involving land rackets with scandals of senior judges etc.
As an information activist since 1982 and a prolific user of RTI process since 2001, Sarbajit Roy participated extensively in the drafting of the Delhi RTI Act 2001 and also the RTI Act 2005. In 2005, Sarbajit filed India's first national RTI application, the first RTI Complaint as well as the first RTI Appeal to the Central Information Commission. In 2006 Sarbajit brought the private electricity companies of Delhi (DISCOMS) under RTI, but the matter is in Court. In 2009, Roy got the highly unpopular Central Information Commission Regulations struck down by the Delhi High Court.
Sarbajit Roy is the Chief Moderator of India's largest RTI group the "Humjanenge" (We shall know) people's movement. On behalf of the Humjanenge he exposed the illegal functioning of UIDAI (an invasive project to extract biometrics of Indian citizens) to public scrutiny using RTI in 2010. In 2010 Roy also forced the National Advisory Council (an extra-constitutional power centre to allow foreign spies to function from under Ms. Sonia Gandhi's petticoats) to appoint a functioning Public Information officer.
In September 2012, Sarbajit was invited by Dr. Sanyal (President of the registered association India Against Corruption) to officiate as National Convenor of the India Against Corruption 'Jan Andolan' (people's movement) after many senior IAC personalities were found to be proxies for politicians and corporate interests and could not be trusted to lead the movement forward honestly.
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