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(Jaskirat Singh, along with others, started several website to monitor elections in India, to provide unbiased election related information and to create awareness about it among voters. He can be contacted at: jaskirats@gmail.com.)
Related Websites:
http://www.nationalelectionwatch.org/
http://www.adrindia.org/home/index.asp
(Jaskirat Singh)
Introduction by Jaskirat Singh
Our website, http://myneta.info is aimed at voters and citizens of India to help them make an informed choice when they go out to vote. All the candidates are required to file an affidavit giving details of their pending criminal charges, past convictions, assets, liabilities and education with their nomination papers to the election commission. We are collecting copies of those affidavits from all over the country for the candidates of the current Lok Sabha elections, and making their data available to people and media in an easy to access and easy to understand format. The process of collecting affidavits, processing their data into reports and disseminating it via web, media, SMS campaigns is what we call Election Watch. Every state has an election watch group that manages it in the respective states. There are about 1200 NGOs in all who are involved all over India in this. Further this campaign has been supported by Aamir Khan whose "Sachhe ko Chuney, Achche ko Chuney" ads are being shown on various TV channels.
This website has been a smashing hit and has already served a huge numbers of visitors from India and abroad. Within first two weeks the total number of visitors has crossed six figures.
Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) is an NGO which won PIL in the supreme court of India which resulted in these affidavits being made compulsory for candidates filing nominations. A lot more info on that is available on their website http://www.adrindia.org
I got involved with them first in 2007 when they wanted to do Punjab Election Watch for assembly elections and I volunteered for them during that. As I am a web developer running my own business, I thought it would be nice if we could create a web based data entry and reporting system which can make this information reach farther and faster. The reports generated from this software have been in the headlines in most national dailies from the past one month or so. That database also feeds myneta.info.
I am presently also the North Zone Coordinator for the National Election Watch.
I run www.webrosoft.com, a dot.com company
Thanks,
Jaskirat Singh
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From the websites:
About National Election Watch
The National Election Watch (NEW) is a nationwide campaign comprising of more than 1200 NGO and other citizen led organizations working on electoral reforms, improving democracy and governance in India.
National Election Watch is active in almost all states of India and has done election watch for all states and Lok Sabha elections since ADR, along with couple other organizations, won the PIL in Supreme Court in 2002 to making disclosure of educational, financial and criminal background of electoral candidates mandatory.
Lots of people around the country are questioning what our elected representatives do. Do you know what the responsibilities of our elected representatives are?
Although a few responsibilities of the elected representatives are defined, the fact is that their responsibilities are very fluid. In fact, citizens and voters of their constituency can and should approach them for any problem that affects general public – be it related to education, health, transport, or any issue affecting general public.
The purpose of this site is several folds:
* Give information on the elected representatives – everything that they give in their affidavits.
* Give information about a constituency – various human development index parameters.
* Give a chance to the general public to give comments on work done by their elected representatives.
* Rate various representatives based on peoples’ comments and improvement shown in their constituency during their tenure, etc.
* Feed this feedback back to your elected representative, so that he has a chance to work on the feedback received from his constituency.
Get started by clicking here to find out more about your representatives and comment on how he/she is doing.
About ADR
Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) is a Non-Political, Non-Partisan and a Non-Governmental Organization whose PIL filed in Dec 1999 culminated in a Supreme Court order on Mar 13, 2003 requiring disclosure of criminal, financial and educational background of all contesting candidates. Since then ADR has done Election Watches in almost all State Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
ADR continues to works towards strengthening democracy and governance in India by focusing on fair and transparent electoral and political processes. It is currently conducting election watch is all states going for assembly polls. You can learn more about ADR at: www.adrindia.org
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http://www.nationalelectionwatch.org/main/aamir_speaks
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FOR IMMEDIDATE RELEASE
THE WEBSITE http://myneta.info GIVING CONTESTING CANDIDATES
INFORMATION A SMASHING HIT SAYS NATIONAL ELECTION WATCH
New Delhi, April 27, 2009 - MYNETA.INFO has been a smashing hit, with the number of visitors crossing into six digits within the first two weeks of its launch. This website presents profiles of all candidates contesting Lok Sabha 2009 elections all over India based on contents of their affidavits.
What most visitors found exceptional about this website was not only that it provides full details of pending criminal charges, convicted cases, asset details, liability details and education details of all candidates, but also the comparison charts for each constituency which they can use as a powerful aid in making an informed choice for their vote.
These charts have also been used by NGOs to print posters and leaflets for their constituencies for the benefit of those who do not use internet.
"We got more than twenty thousand visitors on 22nd April with page views surging to 3.5 lakh, which is the highest so far on any single day. From the day one of the launch of this website we have been flooded with hundreds of messages a day with feedback and comments which has been very encouraging." said Jaskirat Singh the architect of this website.
"It has been blogged about and linked to by scores of Bloggers and that has been a significant source of visitors. This has also spawned many discussions on various popular discussion forums and community websites like Orkut and Face Book. Other than that we have been getting a very big percentage of visitors from search engines who find myneta.info while searching on Google etc. for information about their constituencies and candidates." he added.
The candidate information from this website also feeds the replies to SMS queries generated by TV advertisements of "Sachhe ko Chuney, Achche ko Chuney" campaign by Aamir Khan.
Data presented on myneta.info is also being shared with a number of other websites on the internet which are using it in their own way in raising voter awareness like www.bharatvotes.org and the much talked about "Google 2009 Lok Sabha Elections - Be an Informed Voter!" Campaign.
Contact
Jaskirat Singh
North Zone Coordinator – National Election Watch
webmaster@myneta.info
093160-84953
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About Webrosoft
Webrosoft is a young dot.com company. It specializes in web application development and online retail.
Jaskirat Singh has been running web and e-commerce business since 1999. He specializes in creating web applications which are both user and search engine friendly.
The company is based at Ludhiana, Punjab.
Jaskirat Singh, Director and CEO
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