LOKPAL? ....so what?

Well...it seems Lokpal, in some form, would be a reality but I am not enthused. Given the efficacy of similar institutions, CVC or CBI, in Indian system, I won't be surprised to find it becoming another morbid white elephant and another mean to reward working / retired bureaucrats.

In my view, a more sensible approach would have been to make the existing institutions / provisions more efficient and accountable. Adding another layer of monitoring / control is certainly not going to help us as a progressive system. It would be rather surprising to expect PSUs, which are anyway working under 9 layers of monitoring / supervision to work better once the 10th one becomes effective.

Dunno, where we as a country, as an economy and as a society are heading? Certainly not in the right direction in the near future.