Allow citizens to have some say in law-making

To:  Citizens of India

Dear Prime Minister of India,

In order to improve our situation, we request you to sign the following Executive Notification. The summary of the EN is

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1. If any citizen gives a letter, question, complaint etc to the District Collector, the DC will put the letter on the PM’s website for a fee.

2. If a citizen-voter goes to the Talati's office, shows his voter ID, pays Rs. 3 fee and specifies his Yes/No on a letter posted by any citizen – then the Talati will enter his voter-id, law name and citizen’s Yes/No in his computer and provide the receipt to the citizen.

3. The Talati will publish Yes/No on PM’s website voter-id (note : there is no confidentiality).

4. The PM’s secretary will disclose the Yes/No count over various laws Tahsil-wise and provide total Yes/No counts for India

5. If over 36 crore citizen-voters have approved a proposal, then the PM MAY (may, not will or shall) sign this proposal.

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Above is a description. Following is the EXACT DRAFT of the EN we request you to sign.

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1. [Procedure for District Collectors] : All District Collectors are ordered that if a citizens comes to their office with a letter to PM, they must accept letter for a fee of Rs 200 per page, issue a serial number with place/date , scan the letter and put the letter on PM’s website.

2. [Procedure for Talaties (or their Clerks)] : All Talaties are ordered that, if a citizen comes to Talati’s office to register his YES/NO on any letter submitted to any Collector, then the Talati (or his clerk) would charge a fee of Rs 3 and must enter citizen’s voter-id, law name, clause number or letter number and the citizen’s YES/NO in his PC. The Talati will also allow citizen to change his YES/NO for Rs 3/- fee. The fee for BPL card holder will be Re 1.

3. [Procedure for District Collectors] : The Collectors are ordered to ensure that YES/NOs the citizens come on Talati’s website at link decided by Cabinet Secretary (Center). The website should show citizen’s voter-ID number, name, his latest YES/NO and date when he filed YES/NO.

4. [Procedure for Cabinet Secretary] : The Cabinet Secretary or the officer designated by him will publish the YES/NO count for each law as on Friday closing on every Wednesday on the link decided by Cabinet Secretary (Center)

5. [A general note] : If over 50% of ALL citizen-voters (i.e. 36 crores as in 2009) have approved a proposal, then the PM MAY (may, not will or shall) sign this proposal as Executive Notification. PM's discretion will be final.


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Above is the EN we request you to sign.

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Rahul Mehta,
Right to Recall Party
303, Sukhdham Apt,
opp Municipal Mkt
C G Road
Ahmedabad - 380009

Regards,

Sincerely,

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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