Corruption is today a world-wide phenomenon.

In our own country some people in high positions have been charged for it. A corrupt person is termed immoral, dishonest and unscrupulous in his dealings. His disregard for honesty, righteousness and truth results in his alienation from society. It is the most virulent when crises everywhere threaten the very existence of the society and the faith in life is shaken. The older the system the weaker it grows and fails to solve the riddles of life that grows more complex every day. So men lose faith in it and let it drift down. At this point corruption takes over and plunges the entire society. The flourishing black market in essential commodities, adulteration of even baby- food, bribery, fraud and economic, political and administrative manipulations with an eye on earning profits has brought untold misery to the people. Corruption starts at the top and percolates down to the whole society. Such corruption cannot be confined to the towns alone. Jan Lokpal Bill, also referred to as the citizens ombudsman bill is a proposed independent anti-corruption law in India. Anti-corruption social activists proposed it as a more effective improvement to the original Lokpal bill, which is currently being proposed by the Government of India. The Jan Lokpal Bill aims to effectively deter corruption, redress grievances of citizens, and protect whistle-blowers. If made into law, the bill would create an independent ombudsman body similar to the Election Commission of India called the Lokpal. It would be empowered to register and investigate complaints of corruption against politicians and bureaucrats without prior government approval. Although the bill first passed the Lok Sabha in 1968, the bill has passed the Rajya Sabha and will become law after over four decades. In 2011, civil activist Anna Hazare started a Satyagraha movement by commencing an indefinite fast in New Delhi to demand the passing of the bill. The movement attracted attention in the media, and hundreds of thousands of supporters, in part due to the organizational skills of Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran bedi, etc. The three subjects for the Bill that are forwarded to related standing committee for structure and finalise a report are:(1) A citizen charter on the bill. (2) An appropriate mechanism to subject lower bureaucracy to lokpal. (3) The establishment of Lokayuktas (ombudsmen at state level) in states. So by following Hazare's four day hunger strike, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stated that the bill would be re-introduced in the 2011 monsoon session of the Parliament. Accordingly, a committee of five Cabinet Ministers and five social activists attempted to draft a compromise bill merging the two versions but failed. The Indian government went on to propose its own version in the parliament, which the activists rejected on the grounds of not being sufficiently effective and called it a "toothless bill"..