Performance Card for MPs, MLAs, Corporators, Zilla Representatives, all elected for public bodies.

1.  Attendance, min. 75% rule for full year, failing which call for referendum at own cost, in own Constituency. A simple majority to retain seat, rejection means bye-election. Payment will be 25% only for the year under question with zero perks. Attendance means for over 75% of the day, all attendance as per Parliament records.

2.  Jan Sabhas in own Constituency, at least six times in a year, with MoM in public domain, each of min. 4 hour duration, with recording of citizen feedback and sharing of national-state-local information. Failure will mean withdrawal of all perks for the year and only 25% payment for the year under study.

3.  LAD funds spending to be discussed in public meeting, with recording of MoM, same as para-2 above. At least 50% spending will be with citizen approval and payments to be released only with citizen approval, with simple majority during public meeting, after presentation of independant body report.

4.  Disruption, abuse and mis-behaviour during Sabha session will mean full deduction of pay and perks for one month. Repeatative mis-behaviour will mean cut in pay and perks for a month for each incident. Suspension will mean withdrawal of pay and perks for six months for each incident.

5.  Meaningful participation (recording of remarks), a must for 25% debates and discussions. Failure will mean referendum as per para-1 above.

6.  Absention in voting or walkout for more than 50% issues, will attract withdrawal of perks and 50% cut in pay for the period on monthly basis.

7.  Failure to raise citizen issues with Party and persuing same will mean withdrawal of perks on proportionate basis. MoM will be used to determine issues raised, which must be documented with clarity by citizen. All this process to be in public domain.

8.  Must face acceptance referendums in own Constituency at own cost, after half term. A simple majority will allow Representative to continue in office, failure will mean bye-election.

9.  Must set up domain experts group of 5 members for consultation, from registered citizen bodies for development and issues in Constituency.  Only reimburesment of pocket expenses to be made out of own funds. This expert group to be reconstituted for each year with new faces.

COMMENTS AND AMENDMENTS WELCOME.
EoF.

ABOUT HAVING A STAND IN LIFE.

1.     As children,we follow our parents and also the values they hold and teach us. As adolescents, we begin to experience life,values and trends of the times in which we are living, as different from those our parents and their parents lived.
2.    As we mature we get internally educated within our core to make a conscious difference between desires we have and values of life we hold.
3.    How much mature we are, becomes evident to the extent that we go beyond our sensory desires to follow the values of life we hold.
4.    This is  because our consciousness tells us clearly that desires fulfill our passion but  values we hold give meaning to our life.The meaning of life is characterized by understanding what difference it will make to my life and to the lives of people I am related to, whether I live,I die or was not born at all.
5.    That is the real difference between academic literacy and internal literacy. It is an inner revelation when we  understand that we are internally illiterate when we do not hold any values of life,when we do not know who we are and, in essence,we do not know what we stand for in life.
6.    To have a stand in life is to define our values of life- whether we stand for liberty or coercion,for progressive life or regressive one, for being bound to inflexible belief or to sound rationale, to follow world of compulsions or ground of freedom for ourselves and others.
7.     In essence, we stand for what gives meaning and substance to our existence, not for what drives us towards meaninglessness and obselscence in life.
8.     If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.
9.    If you stand for something, you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing, you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.
10.    To the parents that raised children to take stands where they must, I salute. And to those standing in the cold and putting themselves in the gap for the future of our planet, I say, you are great.

           LineshS, Mumbai. 20.03.2014
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