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On Friday, students of Indian Institute of Technology and Chandra Shekhar Azad Agriculture University were out on the roads, raising anti-corruption slogans and declaring support for Hazare, who has been fasting against corruption.
Hundreds of students of IIT-Kanpur gathered at the open air theatre in the institute where they were told who Hazare is and why is he protesting. The half-an-hour session ended, giving way for the commencement of the candlelight march.
The students of CSA university gathered at the institute hostel and marched in the form of a procession. Over 700 students of CSA, including girls, joined the campaign and vowed to support Hazare.
The students held candles in their hands and raised slogans against corruption. The students said that the corruption has been affecting people of all ages, caste, creed and religion. "Be it young or old, corruption has affected everybody. Therefore, it has to be removed," said Siddhartha Singh, a student of CSA University.
Research scholar Raj Mangal Chaudhary said that more and more people should come forward to support Hazare in the noble cause.
More than 30 years after Anna Hazare started his crusade, as the 72-year-old observes a hunger strike in Delhi against large-scale corruption at the national level, nothing really has changed except the scale of his battle.

Anna....
   Today, Anna Hazare is the face of India's fight against corruption. He has taken that fight to the corridors of power and challenged the government at the highest level. People, the common man and well-known personalities alike, are supporting him in the hundreds swelling to the thousands.

   For Anna Hazare, it is another battle. And he has fought quite a few. Including some as a soldier for 15 years in Indian Army. He enlisted after the 1962 Indo-China war when the government exhorted young men to join the Army.

In 1978, he took voluntary retirement from the 9th Maratha Battalion and returned home to Ralegaon Siddhi, a village in Maharashtra's drought-prone Ahmadnagar. He was 39 years old.

He found farmers back home struggling for survival and their suffering would prompt him to pioneer rainwater conservation that put his little hamlet on the international map as a model village.

What is the meaning of the Jan Lokpal Bill?

The Lokpal Bill is basically an anti-corruption bill drafted to stop corruption by ministers and high level officials. Civil society activists in India have given it a new name, calling it the Jan Lokpal Bill (The word 'Jan' being a short form of the Hindi word 'Janata' meaning the public).

It primarily includes:* Setting up an Ombudsman at the Center

Meaning of Ombudsman: An ombudsman simply refers to an official who has been given the responsibility of making enquiries into a complaint put to him/her by a citizen or group of citizens. The ombudsman is appointed by the Government in power or can be appointed by the country's Parliament. The ombudsman cannot take any fees from the citizens for filing thecomplaint.2011ஆம் ஆண்டு அன்னா அசாரே வலுவான ஊழலெதிர்ப்புக்கான லோக்பால் சட்டம் இந்திய நாடாளுமன்றத்தால் இயற்றப்பட வேண்டும் என்று போராடி வருகிறார். இது தொடர்பாக, முன்னாள் உச்சநீதிமன்ற நீதியரசர் சந்தோஷ் ஹெக்டே, உச்சநீதிமன்றத்தின் மூத்த வழக்கறிஞர் பிரசாந்த் பூசண் இவர்களுடன் ஊழலுக்கெதிரான இந்தியா என்ற அமைப்பின் உறுப்பினர்கள் ஜன் லோக்பால் மசோதா என்ற சட்டவரைவினைத் தயாரித்துள்ளனர். இது அரசு பிரேரித்துள்ள லோக்பால் சட்டவரைவினை விட வலுமிக்கதாகவும் அம்புட்ஸ்மன்எனப்படும் நீதிபதிகளுக்கு கூடுதல் அதிகாரங்கள் வழங்க வகை செய்தும் இயற்றப்பட்டுள்ளது. இந்த சட்டவரைவை இந்தியப் பிரதமர் ஏற்க மறுத்துள்ளநிலையில், ஊழல் புரிந்தவர்களுக்கு கடுமையான தண்டனைகளும் நடுவண் "லோக்பால்" மற்றும் மாநில "லோக் ஆயுக்த்" நீதிபதிகளுக்கு கூடுதல் அதிகாரங்களும் வழங்கும் வகையில் வலுவான லோக்பால் சட்டவரைவினை இயற்ற அரசு பிரதிநிதிகளும் குடிமக்கள் பிரதிநிதிகளும் இணைந்த கூட்டுக்குழு ஒன்றினை அமைக்கக் கோரி ஏப்ரல் 5, 2011 அன்று தில்லியிலுள்ளஜந்தர் மந்தர் என்ற இடத்தில் சாகும்வரை உண்ணாவிரப் போராட்டம் நடத்தினார்..