On Wed September 6 2006 6:06 pm, Nandkumar Saravade wrote: > civil society needs to get involved at this stage itself > to put in its point of view, especially on issues of police > accountability, oversight and complaints redressal. Please visit > http://mha.nic.in/padc.htm for more details.
Thank you for the link. I will probably take my time reading the draft act. But please tell me, how can civil society get involved at this stage? I have found the police dept in our local area in Bangalore to be the most responsive compared with the Corporation or other officials - though the effective use of the right to info act and other pressures seem to be working on the corporation as well. The way I see it - the police:population ratio in India is probably far smaller than that in most civilised nations, and salaries are designed to encourage corruption (apart from "civil" society in India who are always ready with bribes). shiv
