- Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan
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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]
References
- ^ 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
External links
Categories: Organizations based in Rajasthan
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