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Kisan Baburao Hazare (Marathi: िकसन बाबुराव Kisan Baburao Hazare

हजारे ) (born 15 January 1940), popularly known िकसन बाबुराव हजारे
as Anna Hazare (Marathi: अ णा हजारे ), is a pre-
eminent Indian social activist who is especially
recognised for his contribution to the development
of Ralegan Siddhi, a village in Parner taluka of
Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India and his
efforts for establishing it as a model village, for
which he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the
government of India in 1992.[1]
On 5 April 2011, Hazare started a 'fast unto death'

to exert pressure on the government of India to
enact a strong anti-corruption act as envisaged in
the Jan Lokpal Bill, a law that will establish a
Lokpal (ombudsman) that will have 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 all of Born 15 January 1940
Hazare's demands were agreed by the government
Bhingar, Bombay Province, British
of India and the government issued a gazette
notification on the formation of a joint committee India
(of government and civil society representatives) Nationality Indian
to draft an effective Lokpal Bill.[2][3]
Other Anna Hazare
names
Contents Known for Watershed development

programmes
■ 1 Early life Right to Information movement
■ 2 In the Indian Army Anti-corruption movement
■ 3 Transformation of Ralegan Siddhi
Religion Hinduism
■ 3.1 Uprooting alcoholism
■ 3.2 The Watershed Development Spouse Unmarried
programme
■ 3.3 Milk production Parents Laxmibai Hazare (Mother)
■ 3.4 Education Baburao Hazare (Father)
■ 3.5 Removal of untouchability
Awards Padma Shri
■ 3.6 Collective marriages
■ 3.7 Gram Sabha 1990
Padma Bhushan
■ 4 Anti-corruption protests in Maharashtra
■ 5 Right to Information movement 1992
■ 6 Lokpal Bill movement Website
■ 7 Awards and honours
■ 7.1 Awards www.annahazare.org (http://www.annahazare.org)
■ 7.2 Felicitations
■ 8 Publications
■ 9 See also
■ 10 References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Hazare 17-04-2011
■ 11 External links
Early life
Anna Hazare was born on 15 January 1940 in Bhingar, a small village near the city of Ahmednagar,
in Bombay Province (present-day Maharashtra).[4] Hazare's father, Baburao Hazare worked as an
unskilled labourer in Ayurveda Ashram Pharmacy and his grandfather was in the army, posted at
Bhingar when Anna was born. He died in 1945 but Hazare's father continued to stay at Bhingar. In
1952, Hazare's father resigned from his job and returned to his own village, Ralegan Siddhi. At that
time Hazare had six younger siblings and his family had to face significant hardships. Hazare's
childless aunt then took Anna to Bombay (now known as Mumbai) and offered to look after him and
his education.
Hazare studied up to the 7th standard in Bombay and took up a job after the 7th standard due to the
economic situation in his household. He started selling flowers at Dadar[5] in order to make his living
and support his family. After gaining some experience, he started his own shop and brought two of
his brothers to Bombay. Gradually, Hazare's income increased to around 800 per month, a decent
income in those times.
In the Indian Army

Anna Hazare started his career as a driver in the Indian Army in 1963.[6] He spent his spare time
reading the works of Vivekananda, Gandhi, and Vinoba Bhave; they inspired him to become a social
worker and activist.[4] During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, he was the only survivor in a border
exchange of fire, while driving a truck in Khem Karan sector.[5][7] During the mid-1970s he survived
a road accident while driving.[8]
Transformation of Ralegan Siddhi

After
voluntary
retirement “ The dream of India as a strong nation will not be realized without self-reliant,
self-sufficient villages, this can be achieved only through social commitment
from the & involvement of the common man. -Anna Hazare ”
army, Hazare
came to annahazare.org (http://www.annahazare.org/gr.html)
Ralegan
Siddhi village in 1975. Initially, he organised the youth of the village into an organisation named the
Tarun Mandal (Youth Association). He also helped to form the Pani Puravatha Mandals (Water
Supply Associations) to ensure proper distribution of water.[9]
Uprooting alcoholism
As the next step towards social and economic change, Anna Hazare and the youth group decided to
take up the issue of alcoholism. It was very clear that there could be no progress and happiness in the
village unless the curse of alcoholism was completely removed from their lives. At a meeting
conducted in the temple, the villagers resolved to close down the liquor dens and ban the drinking of
alcohol in the village. Since these resolutions were made in the temple, they became in a sense
religious commitments. Over thirty liquor brewing units were closed by their owners voluntarily.
Those who did not succumb to social pressure were forced to close down their businesses, when the
youth group smashed up their liquor dens. The owners could not complain as their business was
illegal.[10]
Though the closure of liquor brewing reduced alcoholism in Ralegan Siddhi, some villagers
continued to drink. They obtained their liquor from neighbouring villages. The villagers decided that
those men would be given three warnings, after which they would be physically punished. Twelve
men who were found in a drunken state even after initial warnings were tied to a pole with help from
the youth group and flogged. Anna Hazare says, “Doesn’t a mother administer bitter medicines to a
sick child when she knows that the medicine can cure her child? The child may not like the
medicine, but the mother does it only because she cares for the child. The alcoholics were punished
so that their families would not be destroyed.”[citation needed]
Anna Hazare appealed to the government of Maharashtra to bring in a law whereby prohibition
would come into force in a village if 25% of the women in the village demanded it. In July 2009, the
state government issued a government resolution amending the Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949. As
per the amendments, if at least 25% of women voters demand liquor prohibition through a written
application to the state excise department, voting should be conducted through a secret ballot. If 50%
of the voters vote against the sale of liquor, prohibition should be imposed in the village and the sale
of liquor should be stopped. Similar action can be taken at the ward level in municipal areas.
Thereafter, another circular was issued, making it mandatory to get the sanction of the Gram Sabha
for issuing new permits for sale of liquor. In some instances, when women agitated against the sale
of liquor, cases were filed against them. Anna took up the issue again and in August 2009 the
government issued another circular that sought withdrawal of cases against women who sought
prohibition of liquor in their villages.[11]
Along with the removal of alcohol from the village, it was decided to ban the sale of tobacco,
cigarettes and beedies. In order to implement this resolution, the youth group performed a unique
"Holi" ceremony twenty two years ago. The festival of Holi is celebrated as a symbolic burning of
evil. The youth group brought all the tobacco, cigarettes and beedies from the shops in the village
and burnt them in a ‘Holi’ fire. From that day, no tobacco, cigarettes, or beedies are sold in any shop
at Ralegan Siddhi.[12][13][14]
The Watershed Development programme

Anna Hazare realised that the only way to increase agricultural production in a sustainable manner
was to build a better irrigation system. Taking into account the geographical location of Ralegan ,
located in the foothills, Anna Hazare persuaded villagers to construct a watershed embankment to
stop water and allow it to percolate and increase the ground water level. He motivated the residents
of the village into shramdan (voluntary labour) to build canals, small-scale check-dams and
percolation tanks in the nearby hills for watershed development; efforts that solved the problem of
scarcity of water in the village that also made irrigation possible.[4][8] The first embankment that was
built using volunteer efforts developed a leak and had to be reconstructed this time with government
funding.
Hazare also took steps to stop the second big problem, soil erosion. In order to conserve soil and
water by checking the run off, contour trenches and gully plugs were constructed along the hill
slopes. Grass, shrubs and about 3 lakh ( 300,000) trees were planted along the hillside and the
village. This process was supplemented by afforestation, nullah bunds, underground check dams and
cemented bandhras at strategic locations. The Watershed Development programme became a huge
success and helped increase the fortunes of many farmers as they now had a reliable source of water.
Ralegan has also experimented with drip and bi-valve irrigation in a big way. Papaya, lemon and
chillies have been planted on a plot of 80 acres (320,000 m²) entirely irrigated by the drip irrigation
system. Cultivation of water-intensive crops like sugar cane was banned. Crops such as pulses,
oilseeds and certain cash crops with low water requirements were grown. The farmers started
growing high yield varieties of crop and the cropping pattern of the village also changed. He has
helped farmers of more than 70 villages in drought-prone regions in the state of Maharashtra since
1975.[15]
The Government of India plans to start a training centre here to understand and implement Hazare's
watershed development model in other villages in the country.[16]
Milk production
As a secondary occupation, milk production was promoted in Ralegan Siddhi. Purchase of new cattle
and improvement of the existing breed with the help of artificial insemination and timely guidance
and assistance by the veterinary doctor has resulted in an improvement in the cattle stock. As a
result, the milk production has increased. Crossbred cows are replacing local ones which give a low
milk yield. The number of milk cattle has also been growing, which resulted in growth from one
hundred litres (before 1975) to around 2500 litres per day which is sent to a co-operative dairy
(Malganga Dairy) in Ahmednagar. Some milk is also given to Balwadi (kindergarten) children and
neighbouring villages under the child nutrition program sponsored by the Zilla Parishad.[17]
From the surplus generated, the milk society bought a mini-truck and a thresher. Besides transporting
milk to Ahmednagar, the mini-truck is also used for taking vegetables and other produce directly to
the market, thus eliminating intermediate agents. The thresher is rented out to the farmers during the
harvesting season.[citation needed]
Education
In 1932, Ralegan Siddhi got its first formal school, a single class room primary school. In 1962, the
villagers added more classrooms through community volunteer efforts. By 1971, out of an estimated
population of 1209, only 30.43% were literate (72 women and 290 men). Boys moved to the nearby
towns of Shirur and Parner to pursue higher education, but due to socioeconomic conditions, girls
could not do the same and were limited to primary education. Anna Hazare along with the youth of
Ralegan Siddhi worked to increase literacy rates and education levels. In 1976, they started a pre
school for the primary school and a high school in 1979. The villagers started taking active interest
in the village school and formed a charitable trust, the Sant Yadavbaba Shikshan Prasarak Mandal,
which was registered in 1979.[18] The trust decided to take over the function of the village school
which was in a bad state due to government neglect and also lack of interest on behalf of teachers
who were moonlighting.
The trust obtained a government grant of 4 lakhs (400,000) for the school building using the
National Rural Education Programme (NREP). A new school building was built in the next 2 months
with volunteer efforts and the money obtained via the grant. A new hostel was also constructed to
house 200 students from poorer sections of society. After the opening of the school in the village, a
girl from Ralegan Siddhi became the first female in the village to complete her SSC in 1982.[12]
Since then the school has been instrumental in bringing in many of changes to the village. This
school has a hostel for 150 boarders. Traditional farming practices are tought in this school in
addition to the government curriculum.[8]
Removal of untouchability
The social barriers that existed due to the caste system in India have been broken down by Ralegan
Siddhi villagers and people of all castes come together to celebrate social events. The people of
Ralegan have largely succeeded in eradicating social discrimination on the basis of caste. The Dalits
have been integrated into the social and economic life of the village. The villagers have built houses
for the Dalits, and helped to repay their loans to free them from their indebtedness.[18]
Collective marriages
Most rural poor get into a debt-trap as they have to incur heavy expenses at the time of marriage of
their son or daughter. It is an undesirable practice but has almost become a social obligation in India.
Ralegan's people have started celebrating marriages collectively. The feast is held together where the
expenses are further reduced by the Tarun Mandal taking the responsibility for cooking and serving
the food. The vessels, the Loudspeaker system, the mandap and the decorations have also been
bought by the Tarun Mandal members belonging to the oppressed castes. From 1976 to 1986, 424
marriages have been held under this system.[18]
Gram Sabha
The Gandhian philosophy on rural development considers the Gram Sabha as an important
democratic institution for collective decision making in the villages in India.[19] If villagers are
involved in the planning and decision making process, they are more open to any changes taking
place in the village. Anna campaigned between 1998 and 2006 for amending the Gram Sabha Act, so
that the people (meaning the villagers) have a say in the development works in their village. While
the state government refused to bend to his demand, it had to give in due to public pressure. As per
the amendments, seeking sanction of the Gram Sabha (an assembly of all village adults, and not just
the few elected representatives in the gram panchayat) for expenditure on development works in the
village, is mandatory. In case of expenditure without the sanction of the Gram Sabha, 20% of Gram
Sabha members can lodge a complaint to the chief executive officer of the zilla parishad with their
signatures. The chief executive officer is required to visit the village and conduct an inquiry within
30 days and submit the report to the divisional commissioner, who has powers to remove the
sarpanch or deputy sarpanch and dismiss the gram sevak involved. Anna was not satisfied, as the
amended Act did not include "the right to recall a sarpanch". He insisted that this should be included
and the state government relented.[11]
In Ralegan Siddhi, the Gram Sabha meetings are held periodically to discuss issues relating to the
welfare of the village. Projects like Watershed development activities are undertaken only after they
are discussed in the Gram Sabha. All decisions like Nashabandi (bans on alcohol), Kurhadbandi
(bans on tree felling), Charai bandi (bans on grazing), and Shramdan were taken in the Gram Sabha.
Decisions are taken in a simple majority consensus. In case of a difference of opinion the majority
consensus becomes acceptable. The decision of the Gram Sabha is accepted as final.
In addition to the panchayat, there are several registered societies that take care of various projects
and activities of the village. Each society presents its annual report and statement of accounts in the
Gram Sabha every year. The Sant Yadavbaba Shikshan Prasarak Mandal monitors the educational
activities. The Vividh Karyakari Society gives assistance and provides guidance to farmers regarding
fertilizers, seeds, organic farming and financial assistance. The Sri Sant Yadavbaba Doodh Utpadhak
Sahakari Sanstha gives guidance regarding the dairy business. Seven Co-operative irrigation
societies provide water to the farmers from cooperative wells. The Mahila Sarvage Utkarsh Mandal
attends the welfare needs of the women.[19]
Anti-corruption protests in Maharashtra

In 1991, Hazare launched the Bhrashtachar Virodhi Jan Aandolan (BVJA) (People's Movement
against Corruption), a popular movement to fight against corruption[20] in Ralegaon Siddhi. In the
same year he protested against the collusion between 40 forest officials and the timber merchants.
This protest resulted in the transfer and suspension of these officials.[21]
In May 1997, Hazare protested against the alleged malpractices in the purchase of powerlooms by
the Vasantrao Naik Bhathya Vimukt Jamati Vikas Manch and the Mahatma Phule Magasvargiya
Vikas Mandal. These institutions were directly under the charge of then Maharashtra Social Welfare
minister Babanrao Gholap of the Shiv Sena, since their managing committees were dissolved after
the Shiv Sena-BJP government came to power in the state in 1995. Hazare also raised the issue of
alleged massive land purchase by Gholap's wife Shashikala in Nashik between April to September
1996. He forwarded the available documentary evidences in support of his allegations to then
Maharashtra Governor P. C. Alexander.[22] On 4 November 1997, Gholap filed a defamation suit
against Hazare for accusing him of corruption. He was initially arrested in April 1998 and was
released on a personal bond of Rs 5,000.[23] On 9 September 1998, Anna Hazare was imprisoned in
the Yerawada Jail after being sentenced to simple imprisonment for three months by the Mumbai
Metropolitan Court.[7][24] The sentencing came as a huge shock at that time to all social activists.
Leaders of all political parties except the BJP and the Shiv Sena came in support of him[25][26] Later
due to public protests, the Government of Maharashtra ordered his release from the jail. After
release, Hazare wrote a letter to then chief minister Manohar Joshi demanding Gholap's removal for
his role in the alleged malpractices in the Awami Merchant Bank.[27] Gholap resigned from the
cabinet on 27 April 1999.[28]
In 2003, the corruption charges were raised by Hazare against 4 ministers of the Congress-NCP
government belonging to the NCP.[29] He started his 'fast unto death' on 9 August 2003. He ended his
fast on 17 August 2003 after then chief minister Sushil Kumar Shinde formed a one man
commission, headed by the retired justice P. B. Sawant to probe his charges.[30] The P. B. Sawant
commission report, submitted on 23 February 2005, indicted Sureshdada Jain, Nawab Malik and
Padmasinh Patil. The report exonerated Vijaykumar Gavit.[31][32] Suresh Jain and Nawab Malik
resigned from the cabinet in March 2005.[33]
Right to Information movement

In the early 2000s, Anna Hazare led a movement in Maharashtra state, which forced the Government
of Maharashtra to repeal the earlier weak act and pass a stronger Maharashtra Right to Information
Act. This Act was later considered as the base document for the Right to Information Act 2005
(RTI), enacted by the Union Government. It also ensured that the President of India assented to this
new Act.[34] Law professor Alasdair Scott Roberts mentions,
The state of Maharashtra - home to one of the world's largest cities, Mumbai, adopted
“ a Right to Information Act in 2003, prodded by the hunger strike of prominent
activist, Anna Hazare. ("All corruption can end only if there is freedom of
information," said Hazare, who resumed his strike in February 2004 to push for better
enforcement of the Act).[35]
”
On 20 July 2006, the Union Cabinet decided to amend the Right to Information Act 2005 to exclude
the file notings by the government officials from its purview. Hazare began his 'fast unto death' on 9
August 2006 against the proposed amendment in Alandi. He ended his fast on 19 August 2006, after
the government agreed to change its earlier decision.[36]
Lokpal Bill movement

Main article: 2011 Indian anti-corruption
movement
On 5 April 2011, Anna Hazare initiated a

movement for passing a stronger anti-corruption
Lokpal (ombudsman) bill in the Indian
Parliament. As a part of this movement, N.
Santosh Hegde, a former justice of the Supreme
Court of India and Lokayukta of Karnataka,
Prashant Bhushan, a senior lawyer in the
Supreme Court along with the members of the
India Against Corruption movement drafted an
alternate bill, named as the Jan Lokpal Bill
(People's Ombudsman Bill) with more stringent
provisions and wider power to the Lokpal Anna Hazare's hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in
[37]
(Ombudsman). Hazare began a fast unto death Delhi
from 5 April 2011 at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, to
press for the demand to form a joint committee of the representatives of the Government and the
civil society to draft a new bill with stronger penal actions and more independence to the Lokpal and
Lokayuktas (Ombudsmen in the states), after his demand was rejected by the Prime Minister of India
Manmohan Singh[38] Before commencing his 'fast unto death' he stated, "I will fast until Jan Lokpal
Bill is passed".[39]
The movement attracted attention very quickly through various media. It has been reported that
thousands of people joined to support Hazare's effort. Almost 150 people reportedly joined Hazare in
his fast.[40] He said that he would not allow any politician to sit with him in this movement.
Politicians like Uma Bharti and Om Prakash Chautala were shooed away by protesters when they
came to visit the site where the protest was taking place.[41] A number of social activists including
Medha Patkar, Arvind Kejriwal and former IPS officer Kiran Bedi and Jayaprakash Narayan have
lent their support to Hazare's hunger strike and anti-corruption campaign. This movement has also
been joined by many people providing their support in Internet social media such as Twitter and
Facebook. In addition to spiritual leaders Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Swami Ramdev, Swami Agnivesh
and former Indian cricketer Kapil Dev,[42] many celebrities showed their public support through
micro-blogging site Twitter.[43] As a result of this movement, on 6 April 2011 Sharad Pawar resigned
from the group of ministers formed for reviewing the draft Lokpal bill 2010.[44]
The movement gathered significant support from India's youth visible through the local support and
on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.[45] There have also been protests in Bangalore,
Mumbai, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Shillong, Aizawl among other cities of India.[46]
On 8 April 2011, the Government of India accepted all demands of the movement. On 9 April 2011
it issued a notification in the Gazette of India on formation of a joint committee. It accepted the
formula that there be a politician Chairman and an activist, non-politician Co-Chairman. According
to the notification, Pranab Mukherjee will be the Chairman of the draft committee while Shanti
Bhushan will be the co-chairman. “The Joint Drafting Committee shall consist of five nominee
ministers of the Government of India and five nominees of the civil society. The five nominee
Ministers of the Government of India are Pranab Mukherjee, Union Minister of Finance, P.
Chidambaram, Union Minister of Home Affairs, M. Veerappa Moily, Union Minister of Law and
Justice, Kapil Sibal, Union Minister of Human Resource and Development and Minister of
Communication and Information Technology and Salman Khursheed, Union Minister of Water
Resources and Minister of Minority Affairs. The five nominees of the civil society are Anna Hazare,
N. Santosh Hegde, Shanti Bhushan Senior Advocate, Prashant Bhushan, Advocate and Arvind
Kejriwal.[47][48]
On the morning of 9 April 2011 Anna Hazare ended his 98-hour hunger strike by first offering
lemon juice to some of his supporters who had gone on a hunger strike in his support. The social
activist then broke his fast by consuming some lemon juice. He addressed the people and set a
deadline of 15 August 2011 to pass the Lokpal Bill in the Indian Parliament.
Real fight begins now. We have a lot of struggle ahead of us in drafting the new
“ legislation, We have shown the world in just five days that we are united for the
cause of the nation. The youth power in this movement is a sign of hope.[49]
”
Anna Hazare also said that if the bill was not passed, then he will call a mass nation-wide agitation.
[49][50]
He called his movement as "second struggle for independence" and he will continue the fight.
[51]
Awards and honours

Awards
■ 2011 - Rabindranath Tagore International Peace Prize, awarded by the Indian Institute of
Planning and Management.[52]
■ 2008 - On 15 April 2008, Anna Hazare received the World Bank's 2008 Jit Gill Memorial
Award for ::Outstanding Public Service: "Hazare created a thriving model village in Ralegaon
Siddhi, in the impoverished Ahmednagar region of Maharashtra state, and championed the
right to information and the fight against corruption."[53]
■ 1992 - Padma Bhushan award, by the Government of India
■ 1990 - Padma Shri award, by the Government of India
■ 1989 - Krishi Bhushana award by the Government of Maharashtra.
■ 1986 - Indira Priyadarshini Vrikshamitra award by the Government of India on 19 November
1986 from the hands of Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi.
Felicitations
He was felicitated by the Ahmednagar Municipal Corporation on 15 January 1987 and by the Pune
Municipal Corporation also.
Publications
■ Hazare, Anna; Ganesh Pangare, Vasudha Lokur (1996). Adarsh Gaon Yojana: government
participitation in a peoples program : ideal village project of the Government of Maharashtra
(http://books.google.com/books?id=Eh4pHAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:%22Anna+Hazare%
22&hl=en&ei=OHudTcvOOsXjrAfavIWqBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&v
Hind Swaraj Trust. pp. 95. http://books.google.com/books?
id=Eh4pHAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:%22Anna+Hazare%
22&hl=en&ei=OHudTcvOOsXjrAfavIWqBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&v
■ Hazare, Anna (1997). Ralegaon Siddhi: a veritable transformation
(http://books.google.com/books?
id=mCENHAAACAAJ&dq=Anna+Hazare&hl=en&ei=ZnSdTZGjBsmYhQeK3-
26BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAg) . Translated by
B.S. Pendse. Ralegan Siddhi Pariwar Prakashan,. http://books.google.com/books?
id=mCENHAAACAAJ&dq=Anna+Hazare&hl=en&ei=ZnSdTZGjBsmYhQeK3-
26BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAg. Retrieved 7
April 2011.
■ Hazare, Anna (2007) (in Marathi). वाट ही संघषार्ची. Pune: Signet Publications.
See also
■ 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement
■ India Against Corruption
■ Jan Lokpal Bill
References
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Hazare-The-man-who-cant-be-ignored/articleshow/7892596.cms) . The Times of India. 7 April 2011.
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the-battlefield-of-Khem-Karan/articleshow/8002771.cms) . The Times of India.
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External links
■ Anna Hazare's Website (http://www.annahazare.org)
■ Resources on Anna Hazare
(http://indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/governance-and-institutions/social-
activists/anna-hazare)
■ A successful case of participatory watershed management at Ralegan Siddhi Village in,

Maharastra, India (http://www.fao.org/docrep/X5669E/x5669e06.htm)
■ Full text of Anna Hazare's letter to Prime Minister of India Dr.Manmohan Singh on 6 April
2011 (http://www.hindustantimes.com/Full-text-of-Anna-Hazare-s-letter-to-PM-Manmohan-
Singh/Article1-681961.aspx)
■ Draft Lokpal Bill, 2010 (http://indiaagainstcorruption.org/doc/civil_society_s_lokpal_bil.pdf)
■ Jan Lokpal Bill version 1.8 (http://www.annahazare.org/pdf/Jan%20lokpal%20bill%20by%
20Expert%20(Eng).pdf)
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Anna Hazare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 1 of 14

Kisan Baburao Hazare (Marathi: िकसन बाबुराव Kisan Baburao Hazare

On 5 April 2011, Hazare started a 'fast unto death'

Contents Known for Watershed development

In the Indian Army

Transformation of Ralegan Siddhi

The Watershed Development programme

Anti-corruption protests in Maharashtra

Right to Information movement

Lokpal Bill movement

On 5 April 2011, Anna Hazare initiated a

Awards and honours

1. ^ "Padma Bhushan Awardees" (http://india.gov.in/myindia/padmabhushan_awards_list1.php?

25. ^ "Anna Hazare's arrest" (http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~venu/ANNA/) . Anna Hazare's arrest.

42. ^ "Support pours in for Hazare's

cited in other works

■ Reilly, Carmel (2007). Ralegan Siddhi: a special community (http://books.google.com/books?

■ Seabrook, Jeremy (1993). Victims of development: resistance and alternatives

■ A successful case of participatory watershed management at Ralegan Siddhi Village in,

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