01-18-2011, 09:18 AM
The letter, which follows a meeting in Mumbai on Saturday, has been signed by businesspersons Azim Premji of Wipro, Keshub Mahindra of Mahindra & Mahindra, Jamshyd Godrej of the Godrej Group and Anu Aga of Thermax; HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh; ICICI chairman emeritus N Vaghul; former Hindustan Lever chairman and now Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Ganguly; former Reserve Bank of India governors Bimal Jalan (also an RS MP) and M Narasimham; Justices Sam Variava and B N Srikrishna, who heard the Harshad Mehta and Mumbai riots cases respectively; chartered accountant and architect of key Sebi and RBI regulations Yezdi Malegam; member of the PM's Economic Advisory Council Prof A Vaidyanathan and banker-turned-social worker Nachiket Mor.
Many in this group have played crucial roles in the India Story, advising successive governments, and at critical junctures, playing conscience-keepers. Some of them are, in fact, said to be close to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The group has said that among "several urgent steps to tackle corruption", the most critical is to make the "investigative agencies and law-enforcing bodies independent of the Executive... in order to ensure citizens that corruption will be most severely dealt with". http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india...308253.cms
Many in this group have played crucial roles in the India Story, advising successive governments, and at critical junctures, playing conscience-keepers. Some of them are, in fact, said to be close to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The group has said that among "several urgent steps to tackle corruption", the most critical is to make the "investigative agencies and law-enforcing bodies independent of the Executive... in order to ensure citizens that corruption will be most severely dealt with". http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india...308253.cms