User:Pramodkhari

Pramod Khari Ex State President NSUI Uttrakhand (Indian National Congress) Ex Director Ministry of Food Processing Industry Government of india ) Member Hindi Shalhakar Samiti Ministry of home affairs Government of india ) Member Slcc FCI Ministry of food & Public Distribution Government of India)

Pramod khari was born in Gurjar family of Chona Village in Uttar Pradesh. He is the son of the deceased Congress leader and his mother is. His father was a Sate minister Rank of uttrakhand. His ancestral village is Chona village in Noida.[citation needed]

He holds a B.A. from St. Stephens College, University of Delhi, Diploma in marketing from I.M.T. Ghaziabad and MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.[1][2]

He was employed with Delhi Bureau of British Broadcasting Corporation[3] and then with American multinational corporation General Motors for two years.[4]Khari married Saroj Khari on 13 Feb 2005. Saroj Khari is the daughter of Ch Baljeet Singh, the National Congress Party .[5] Together they have one son Krishhna.[6][7] Currently, Pramod Khari and Saroj Khari live in Noida[8]

Pramod Khari on 6 September 2006 became the first State President NSUI to be commissioned as an officer in the Territorial Army, fulfilling his desire to follow his father's footsteps to be in the armed forces. He is therefore known as Lieutenant Pilot for being an officer in the Territorial Army. [10] After being commissioned he said, "This has been my desire to join the army for very long as I wanted to have my links with the armed forces, like my father and grandfather. I am honoured to be part of this family As an IRS officer, Kejriwal was troubled by the rampant corruption in the Income Tax department. In December 1999, while still in service with the Income Tax Department, Pramod Khari, Meery Singh and others found a movement named Parivartan (which means "change"), in the Sundar Nagari area of Delhi. A month later, in January 2000, Pramod Khari took a sabbatical from work to focus on Parivartan.[16][17]

Parivartan addressed citizens' grievances related to Public Distribution System (PDS), public works, social welfare schemes, income tax and electricity. It was not a registered NGO - it ran on individual donations, and was characterised as a jan andolan ("people's movement") by its members.[18] Later, in 2005, launched Kabir, a registered NGO named after the medieval philosopher Kabir. Like Parivartan, Kabir was also focused on RTI and participatory governance. However, unlike Parivartan, it accepted institutional donations. According to Kejriwal, Kabir was mainly run by Sisodia.[19]

In 2000, Parivartan filed a public interest litigation (PIL) demanding transparency in public dealings of the Income Tax department, and also organised a satyagraha outside the Chief Commissioner's office.[20)and other activists also stationed themselves outside the electricity department, asking visitors not to pay bribes and offered to help them in getting work done for free.[21]

In 2001, the Delhi government enacted a state-level Right To Information (RTI) Act, which allowed the citizens to access government records for a small fee. Parivartan used RTI to help people get their work done in government departments without paying a bribe. In 2002, the group obtained official reports on 68 public works projects in the area, and performed a community-led audit to expose misappropriations worth ₹ 7 million in 64 of the projects.[17] On 14 December 2002, Parivartan organised a jan sunvai (public hearing), in which the citizens held public officials and leaders accountable for the lack of development in their locality.[22]

In 2003 (and again in 2008[23]), Parivartan exposed a PDS scam, in which ration shop dealers were siphoning off subsidised foodgrains in collusion with civic officials. In 2004, Parivartan used RTI applications to access communication between government agencies and the World Bank, regarding a project for privatisation of water supply.and other activists questioned the huge expenditure on the project, and argued that it would hike water tariffs ten-fold, thus effectively cutting off the water supply to the city's poor. The project was stalled as a result of Parivartan's activism. Another campaign by Parivartan led to a court order that required private schools, which had received public land at discounted prices, to admit more than 700 poor kids without fee.[20][21]

Along with other social activists like , Aruna Roy and Pramod Khari came to be recognised as an important contributor to the campaign for a national-level Right to Information Act (enacted in 2005).[20] He resigned from his job in February 2006, and later that year, he was given the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership, for his involvement with Parivartan. The award recognised him for activating the RTI movement at the grassroots, and empowering New Delhi's poor citizens to fight corruption.[21]

By 2012, Parivartan was largely inactive. Sundar Nagri, where the movement was concentrated, suffered from irregular water supply, unreliable PDS system and poorly done public works.[18] Calling it "ephemeral and delusionary in nature",noted that Parivartan's success was limited, and the changes brought by it did not last long.[24]

Public Cause Research Foundation In December 2006, Pramod Khari established the Public Cause Research Foundation in December 2006, together with Pramod Khari and Abhinandan Sekhri. He donated his Ramon Magsaysay Award prize money as a seed fund. Besides the three founders, and served as the Foundation's trustees.[25] This new body paid the employees of Parivartan.[18] Khari used the RTI Act in corruption cases in many government departments including the Income Tax Department, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the Public Distribution System and the Delhi Electricity Board.[11]