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We believe that this will make the electoral process more transparent even though a lot more needs to be done to safeguard democracy from the curse of money and muscle power.

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Governing Council

MR. VIKRAM LAL

MR. VIKRAM LAL

Vikram Lal, former Chairman of the Eicher Group, was born in 1942 in Delhi. He did his Senior Cambridge from the Doon School in 1957, after which he went abroad to study mechanical engineering at the Technical University Darmstadt in West Germany. He joined Eicher, the family company established by his father, in 1966. Eicher started as the first tractor manufacturer in India in 1960, and eventually branched out into light commercial vehicles in 1986, and then into heavy vehicles. Amongst oth...

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MR. KAMAL KANT JASWAL

MR. KAMAL KANT JASWAL

Kamal Kant Jaswal served in the Uttar Pradesh Cadre of the Indian Administrative Service for over 36 years till October 2004. Kamal Jaswal holds degrees of Master of Science in Geology from the University of Lucknow, M.Phil. in Economics and Management of Public Enterprises from the University of Paris XI and L.L.B. from the University of Delhi. During his career in the IAS, Kamal Jaswal held a number of important positions in the field as well as the State and Central secretariats. He als...

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DR. B. P. MATHUR

DR. B. P. MATHUR

Birendra Prasad Mathur is a former member of the Indian Audit & Accounts service (IA&AS) and has held the post of Dy Comptroller & Auditor General, Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser, Ministry of Steel & Mines, Joint Secretary and Addl Financial Adviser, Ministry of Defence and Accountant General, Maharashtra. He had also served as an Adviser, Government of Afghanistan. Dr Mathur has also done a stint as Director, National Institute of Financial Management and had been Vi...

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DR. VIPUL MUDGAL

DR. VIPUL MUDGAL

Dr. Vipul Mudgal has been a journalist and academic in India, the UK, and South East Asia for over 30 years. He has held senior editorial positions at Hindustan Times, India Today, BBC World Service and Asia Times. He has been Resident Editor of HT at Jaipur and Lucknow, Editor Insight at New Delhi, and Regional Editor of Asia Times in Bangkok. He has headed operations in print, electronic and Internet media in India and abroad. Vipul has a doctorate on media and terrorism from Leicester Univ...

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DR. ASHOK KHOSLA

DR. ASHOK KHOSLA

Ashok Khosla is Chairman of the thirty-year-old Development Alternatives Group. Headquartered in New Delhi, the DA Group was among the first civil society organizations set up to address the issues of sustainable development as a whole. It also pioneered systematic innovation of technologies for rural applications, the concept of social enterprise, creating business-like approaches for eradicating poverty and conserving the natural resource base. Concurrently, Ashok is President of the Intern...

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MR. PRAKASH SINGH

MR. PRAKASH SINGH

Prakash Singh has been a very distinguished police officer of India with an excellent track record for combating terrorism in the turbulent parts of the country. He served – and occupied the highest positions – in the most volatile areas of Nagaland, Assam, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Kashmir. The Government of India, in recognition of his contribution to national security, awarded him the ‘Padmashri’ in 1991, An expert on internal security, Singh has given lectures all ...

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MR. LALIT NIRULA

MR. LALIT NIRULA

Lalit Nirula is a second generation member of a family that had been in the Hotel and Restaurant industry for 76 years. The business, Nirula’s, which he joined in December 1967, has successfully brought new non-traditional food products, innovative concepts and modern work culture in the Hospitality field for the first time to India.  The Company was considered leaders in their field of family foods, being the largest Indian owned restaurant chain in the Indian sub-continent when he w...

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MR. PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA

MR. PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA

Mr. Paranjoy Guha Thakurta is an independent journalist and an educator. His work experience, spanning 35 years, cuts across different media: print, radio, television and documentary cinema. He is a writer, speaker, anchor, interviewer, teacher and commentator in three languages: English, Bengali and Hindi. His main areas of interest are the working of India’s political economy and the media, on which he has authored/co-authored books and directed/produced documentary films. He lectures on...

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MS ANJALI BHARDWAJ

MS ANJALI BHARDWAJ

Anjali Bhardwaj- co-convenor, National Campaign for Peoples’ Right to Information (NCPRI) and founder, Satark Nagrik Sangathan (SNS) --- Society for Citizens’ Vigilance Initiative, studied for an MSc degree in Environmental Management at Oxford University and did her MA in economics from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She has been closely associated with the Right to Information movement in India since 2000. The NCPRI played a pivotal role in campaigning for a...

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MR. SANJAY BHASIN

MR. SANJAY BHASIN

Sanjay Bhasin is a graduate of Electronics and Communications Engineering from IIT Roorkee and holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, USA.   He is currently Chief Operating Officer of solar energy company YouSolar Inc. (http://yousolar.com/). Sanjay has global corporate experience of working in information technology (IT), telecom and solar industries for over 30 years. He has lived and worked in India, USA, Finland, England and Indonesia.   Sanjay has ...

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MR. NIKHIL DEY

MR. NIKHIL DEY

Nikhil Dey, was born in Bangalore in 1963. He was educated in India and the USA (12 th std from Thomas Jefferson High School, Fairfax County Virginia USA). He has a Bachelor's Degree from Osmania University and a degree in law from the University of Delhi. After working briefly with the Kheduth Mazdoor Chetna Sangathana in Madhya Pradesh, he joined Aruna Roy and Shankar Singh in 1987 to go to Devdungri, in Rajsamand District in Rajasthan. All three of them, along with many ...

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