2. Who is Hazare ?
• Kisan Bapat Baburao Hazare, (Hindi: ििसान
बापट बाबुराव हजारे ) , popularly known
as Anna Hazare, is a social activist who is
especially recognized for his contribution to
the development of Ralegan Siddhi, a village
in Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India
and his efforts for establishing it as a model
village, for which he was awarded
the Padma Bhushan by Government of
India, in 1992.

3. Anna Hazare was born in Bhingar village
in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra
state in western India to Baburao Hazare
and Laxmi Bai, an unskilled labourer
family who owned five acres of land.
Due to adverse conditions in 1952 they
had to move to their family home in
Ralegan Siddhi.
He was raised by his childless aunt in
Mumbai but could not continue beyond
VII standard and had to quit midway due
to financial problems

4. Anna Hazare started his career as a driver in
the Indian Army.
He spent his spare time reading the books of
Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and
Acharya Vinoba Bhave that inspired him to
become a social worker and activist.
During the mid-1970s he was involved in a
road accident while driving but he survived
In 1975, he led a movement to eradicate
alcoholism from the village.
Next, he motivated the residents of the village
into shramdan (voluntary labour) to build
canals, small-scale check-dams and percolation
tanks in the nearby hills for watershed
development.
He also motivated the residents of the village
to build a secondary school in the village
through voluntary labour

5. What is the net worth of this man?
On April 16, 2011, he declared his bank
balance of Rs - 67,183/- and Rs- 1,500/- as
money in hand. He owns 0.07 hectares of
family land in Ralegan Siddhi which is being
used by his brothers. Two other pieces of land
donated to him by the Indian Army and by a
villager, have been donated by him for village
use. He is receiving pension from Indian army
from where he took voluntary retirement.

6. Awards to Anna Hazare
PADMABHUSHAN AWARD Presented by R. Venkatraman ( president of India) on 6th April 1992 at Delhi for
Anna Hazare's social work.
PADMASHRI AWARD Presented by R. Venkatraman ( President of India) on 24th march 1990 at Delhi for
Anna Hazare's social work.
PRIY DARSHINI VRIKSHA MITRA AWARD, GOVT. INDIA
KRUSHI BHUSAHAN GOVT. OF MAHARASHTRA
YOUNG INDIA AWARD
MAN OF THE YEAR AWARD 1988
PAUL MITTAL NATIONAL AWARD 2000 (NEHRU SIDHANT KENDER TRUST LUDHIYNA 14001) Presented by
shri. Balaramji Das Tandon (Minister, Punjab) on 14th november 2000.
TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL (IT) INTEGRITY AWARD 2003 FROM TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL .
DOCTORATE DEGREE GANDHIGRAM RURAL INSTITUTE-DEEMED UNIVERSITY GANDHIGRAM DINDIGUL,
TAMIL NADU-8-11-05
VIVEKANANDA SEVA PURASKAR 1994 Presented by Shri.Bada Bajar Kumar Sabha Pustakalay, Calcutta on
12th June 1996 for Anna Hazare's social work done for develop village as a family.
SHIROMANI AWARD 1996 presented by P.A.Sangma (Speaker of Lok sabha) on 22nd February 1997 at New
Delhi for Anna Hazare’s contribution to National Development Integration, Enrichment of life and for his
outstanding achievements in the choosen field of activities(social service).
MAHAVEER PURASKAR 1997 presented by Bhagwan Mahaveer Foundation , Chennai on 2th April 1997 for
Anna Hazare’s excellent in sphere of social & community service.
DIWALIBEN MEHTA AWARD presented by Shri.Panduranga Shastri Athavale on 8th January 1999 at Mumbai
for Anna Hazare’s Hard, Sincere, Dedicated & Devoted social work.

7. CARE INTERNATIONAL AWARD 1998 presented by Care International Humanitarian on 8th May 1998 at Washington,D.C,
USA for Anna Hazare demonstrating a profound commitment to improving life in developing world. Care Recognized
Anna Hazare’s devotion to the ideas of sustainable development with whole hearted participation of villagers including
women & youth.
GIANTS INTERNATIONAL AWARD presented by Shri.Vilas Rao Deshmukh (Chief Minister of Maharashtra) on 17th sept.
2000 for Shri.Anna hazare's social work
BASAVSHRI PRASHASTI 2000 AWARD Presented by Shri.Jagadguru Murugharajendra Brihan Math at S.J.M.Math,
Chitradurga , Karnataka on 4th June 2000 for Anna Hazare’s relentless effort to bring in the value of based way of life in
the society.
NATIONAL INTERGRATION AWARD presented by (Dhum-Lajee)chiefminister- Himothkursh Sahithy Samskruthi Avam
Jana Kalyal Parishad, UNA, Himachal Pradesh on 14th February 1999 for Anna Hazare’s Social Work.
VISHWA-VATSALYA & SANTBAL AWARD presented at Ahamadabad for Anna Hazares universal services to mankind
including his incessant fight against corruption and his inspring efforts to improve the living condition of the poor & to
riaise the ethical levels of the society.
JANA SEVA PURASKAR presented by Smt.Rajmathi at Sangle, Maharashtra on 28th February 1998 for Anna Hazares
Social Work.
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL MANAV SEVA PURASKAR presented by Supreme Court Judge Shri. D.P.Wadhwa at India Habital
Center , Lodhi Road, New Delhi on 21st Feb 1998 for Anna Hazare’s Crusade against Corruption .

9. His movements so far
• Anti-corruption protests in Maharashtra
• Right to Information movement
• Regulation of Transfers and Prevention of Delay in Discharge of Official
Duties Act
• Campaign against liquor from food grains
• Lokpal Bill movement

10. In the early 2000s, Anna Hazare led a
movement in Maharastra state, which forced
the Government of Maharashtra to repeal the
earlier weak act and pass a more stronger
Right to Information Act, which was later
considered as the base document for the Right
to Information Act 2005 (RTI), enacted by the
Union Government.
It also ensured that the President of India
assented to this new act.

11. Lokpal Bill movement
In 2011, Anna Hazare led a movement for
passing a stronger anti-corruption Lokpal
(ombudsman) bill in the Indian Parliament.
As a part of this movement, N. Santosh Hegde,
a former justice of the Supreme Court of India
and Lokayukta of Karnataka, Prashant
Bhushan, a senior lawyer in the Supreme Court
along with the members of the India Against
Corruption movement drafted an alternate bill,
named as the Jan Lokpal Bill (People's
Ombudsman Bill) with more stringent
provisions and wider power to the Lokpal
(Ombudsman).

12. Hazare has started a fast unto death from 5 April 2011 at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, to
press for the demand to form a joint committee of the representatives of the
Government and the civil society to draft a new bill with more stronger penal
actions and more independence to the Lokpal and Lokayuktas (Ombudsmen in the
states), after his demand was rejected by the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan
Singh
After Congress Govt Agreed to form joint committee he broke his fast

13. 10 MEMBER COMMITTEE WAS FORMED TO DRAFT LOKPAL BILL BUT FAILED

15. The announced plans of social activist Anna Hazare to go on a fast unto death from August 16
in support of the demand of the anti-corruption movement headed by him for a stronger Jan
Lok Pal Bill than the one introduced by the government in Parliament poses an executive and
moral dilemma to the government of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh
The executive dilemma arises from the fact that an attempt to commit suicide for whatever
purpose is a criminal offence under the Indian Penal Code and the Government is legally bound
to act against the threatened fast, if necessary, by arresting Hazare either before or during his
fast in order to save his life and to prevent a public disorder.
The executive dilemma is enhanced by the danger that the act of saving his life might be
interpreted as a violation of his right to protest and might lead to an even greater public
disorder.
The moral dilemma arises from the fact that a fast unto death as a form of protest has been an
accepted weapon since the days of Mahatma Gandhi. He used the threat of fast unto death on
some occasions against the British rulers because he was left with no other way of expressing
his protest over the failure of the British to concede his demands.

16. Activist Anna Hazare was on Tuesday 16 Aug 2011 detained by Delhi Police ahead of his
scheduled fast at the Jai Prakash Narain Park in the city. Also detained were Arvind Kejriwal
and other supporters.
The police action prompted protests against the government and the police. Reacting to the
Delhi Police action, former IPS officer and social activist Kiran Bedi said: "I have been saying
that the Delhi Police is being given directions. He has been taken into preventive custody even
when he has not broken any law. Emergency has revisited the country. This detention is
unconstitutional and undemocratic."
Since early morning, a group of people had thronged an east Delhi apartment where Anna
Hazare was staying to pledge their support ahead of his protest demanding a strong Lokpal.
The 74-year-old social activist, who is staying at Supreme Enclave, was planning to stage an
indefinite fast at Jai Prakash Narain Park, near Feroj Shah Kotla Stadium, where prohibitory
orders have been imposed.

17. Anna agrees to 14-day fast at Ramlila Maidan
In a late night breakthrough, 18 Aug 2011 Anna Hazare and his team have agreed to 14-day
fast at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi. The social activist, who will go under a check up at
Tihar jail at 10 am, will reach the protest venue around 3pm in an open jeep. Though for
the time being there has been a breakthrough, Anna Hazare's basic demand of civil society
draft of lokpal bill being introduced in Parliament remains.
Police negotiators, Hazare and his associates came to an agreement on several issues. They
agreed that the fast venue would be the spacious Ramlila Grounds and that there would be
no ceiling on the number of protesters.
They also agreed that loudspeakers would be used at the venue and that Hazare would be
examined by government as well as private and personal Doctors

18. Checkered shorts and a Gandhi topi is a fashion
felony. But 29-year-old Shailesh Saraf doesn't care;
he has never blindly followed a popular trend.
Currently on "FL or fasting leave", Saraf, a vice
president with Morgan Stanley, is down from Hong
Kong to campaign for the Jan Lokpal bill.
Saraf was among the 72 protesters who were
fasting for the second consecutive day at Azad
Maidan; two new recruits joined the fast on
Wednesday. At the maidan, Saraf intermittently
checks his Blackberry, not for investment updates
or market movements but for news of Anna
Hazare's release. For the most part, he sits on the
stage, listening to people unspooling long
speeches about the corruption they'd faced.

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