Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan
The Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (Organisation for the Empowerment of Workers and Peasants) is an Indian social movement founded by Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh along with a number of peasants and workers in Devdungari village of Rajsamand district in Rajasthan state in 1990. In the 1990s, it spearheaded the right to information movement in Rajasthan state. As a part of the movement, it organized jansunwais (public hearings) in several villages, where they conducted social audits based on the information it gathered from the government. It also organized a dharna (sit-in demonstration) in Beawar town in April 2006 to press its demand.[1] As a result of this movement, the Rajasthan State Right to Information Act was enacted in 2000. It is also known for election watch programme in the city of Pushkar[2]
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- ^ Florini, Ann. The Right to Know: Transparency for an Open World. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 24–30. ISBN 978-0-231-14158-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=hSaXTqOv6rAC&pg=PA24&dq=MKSS+1990+Aruna+Roy&hl=en&ei=bLyhTaH7E8nirAe0x5j7Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=MKSS%201990%20Aruna%20Roy&f=false.
- ^ www.hinduonnet.com
