Workshop Report:Fighting Corruption, 8th December 2010

Coalition Against Corruption (CAC) completed five years of successful existence fighting ofcorruption.

Started in December 2005, CAC is a consortium of six civil society organisations(CSOs) from Bangalore – PublicAffairs Centre, Swabhimana,CREAT,ConsumerCareSociety, AVAS and KarunaTrust.

Justice M. Venkatachalaiah,former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India and Chairperson,Board of Governors, PAC, Justice Santosh Hegde, Lokayukta, Dr. Ajai Kumar Singh, IG & DGP,Karnataka, Mr. Kuldip Nayar, eminent journalist, Mr. Vinay Bhargava, PTF Member, Dr.Samuel Paul, founder, Public Affairs Centre have participated in the inaugural function. Mr.Ravi Prakash, Programme Manager, PAC welcomed the dignitaries on stage and requestedthe guests to sign a pledge saying “We pledge to fight corruption” as a way to inspire otherpeople.

Later on the same pledge was signed by all the people who attended the workshop.After the signing of pledge, Justice M. Venkatachalaiah released the new brochure ofCoalition Against Campaign (CAC) and handed over the first copy to Mr. Ajai Kumar Singh.