Yatra Agitations
” Before changing the country, we have to change villages. Without changing the economy of villages, the economical condition of country will not change. That’s why to fulfil the dream of powerful India, let us walk towards villages…”
– Mahatma Gandhi -
Maharashtra Tour for Anti-corruption Mass Movement Organization Building
Year - 1996
Duration : 08 December 1996 To 18 December 1996
Total Days : 11
Public Awareness Meetings : 06
Place : Maharashtra
Maharashtra Tour for Anti-corruption Mass Movement Organization Building
* Purpose *
1) Public awareness against corruption.
2) Formation of organization to fight against corruption.
3) Establishment of anti-corruption Jan Andolan Nyas trust.
4) Organization building at district level and taluka level.
Features : An Anti-corruption organization was established for the first time in Maharashtra.
Maharashtra Tour for Awareness of Right To Information Act
Year - 1998
Duration : 31 October 1998 To 14 November 1998
Total Days : 15
Public Awareness Meetings : 29
Place : Maharashtra
* Purpose *
1) Public awareness against corruption.
2) Public awareness about Right to Information Act.
3) Tell the public about the importance of Right to Information Act in a democracy.
Features : Meetings were held at 29 places in 15 districts of Maharashtra and public awareness work regarding the Right To Information Act was started on a large scale.
Public Awareness, Public Education and Organization Building Tour Against Corruption
Year - 2001
Duration : 01 May 2001 To 31 May 2001
Total Days : 31
Public Awareness Meetings : 29
Place : Maharashtra
* Purpose *
1) Public awareness against corruption.
2) Building the organization of anti-corruption public movement trust.
3) Public awareness about Right to Information Act.
Features : Meetings were held at 29 district level places in Maharashtra and a large-scale organization was started and an anti-corruption organization was formed for the first time in the country.
Public Awareness Tour for Enactment of Right To Information
Year - 2003
Duration : 01 May 2003 To 17 August 2003
Total Days : 41
Public Awareness Meetings : 43
Place : Maharashtra
* Purpose *
1) Public awareness about Right to Information Act, Additional Powers of Gram Sabha, Transfers Act and Late Paper Acts
2) Public awareness against corruption.
3) Making advance preparations for public agitation.
Results of the Agitation
1) ‘Right to Information’ law passed.
2) Assurance of Gram Sabha’s authority to make laws.
3) Assurance of making a law against delay in office services.
4) Justice to take action against corrupt ministers of Maharashtra. P.B. Formation
of Sawant Commission.
Features : An organization was formed in a total of 35 districts and 352 talukas of the state.
Right To Information Act and Voter Awareness Tour
Year - 2004
Duration : 01 May 2003 To 17 August 2003
Total Days : 46
Public Awareness Meetings : 55
Place : Maharashtra
* Purpose *
1) Awareness among the public about the Right to Information Act.
2) Voting awareness among the people.
3) Public awareness against corruption.
4) Be fearless magazine and movement building.
2) Public awareness against corruption.
Features : 55 meetings in all the districts of Maharashtra, people became fearless.
‘YOUTH POWER IS NATION’S POWER’ Awareness Tour For Youth
Year - 2005
Duration : 03 January 2005 To 03 August 2005
Total Days : 100
Public Awareness Meetings : 234 ( Colleges )
Place : Maharashtra
* Purpose *
1) Awareness among the youth against corruption.
2) To make efforts to make the youth power of the nation by educating the college youth.
3) Awareness about Nirbhay Bano magazine and movement among youth.
Features : In 234 colleges of Maharashtra, meetings were held on awareness and interaction with lakhs of students.
Awareness Campaign Against Changes in Right To Information Act
Year - 2006
Duration : 20 February 2006 To 09 November 2006
Total Days : 65
Public Awareness Meetings : 187
Place : Maharashtra
* Purpose *
1) Awareness among the public about Right To Information Act.
2) Oppose removal of file noting’s from RTI and create public awareness about it.
Features : In Maharashtra, 187 meetings in various taluks for 65 days in the state.
Maharashtra Tour for Organization Building of Anti-Corruption Jan Andolan Trust
Year - 2009
Duration : 10 June 2009 To 20 August 2009
Total Days : 73
Public Awareness Meetings : 70
Place : Maharashtra
* Purpose *
1) Public awareness against corruption.
2) Formation of Taluka and District Level Committees of Anti-Corruption Jan Andolan Trust.
3) To create a community-oriented organization of selfless, charitable workers.
Features : In Maharashtra, 70 meetings in various taluks for 73 days in the state.
Tour In Maharashtra For Public Awareness About Lokpal Lokayukta Act
Year - 2011
Duration : 07 March 2011 To 30 March 2011
Total Days : 24
Public Awareness Meetings : 20
Place : Maharashtra
* Purpose *
1) Public awareness against corruption.
2) Awareness among the people about the Lokpal Lokayukta Act.
3) Preparation of Lokpal movement.
Features : 20 meetings were held in 20 districts of Maharashtra.
Tour For Public Awareness On Maharashtra Lokpal And Lokayukta Bill
Year - 2012
Duration : 01 May 2012 To 07 June 2012
Total Days : 35
Public Awareness Meetings : 38
Place : Maharashtra
* Purpose *
1) Public awareness and public education about the Lokpal Lokayukta Act.
2) Creating public awareness against corruption.
Features : 38 meetings in all districts of Maharashtra
Janantra Yatra- Public Awareness Tour to Remove Election Symbols
Year - 2012
Duration : 17 October 2012 To 01 November 2012
Total Days : 16
Public Awareness Meetings : 76
Place : Bihar , Jharkhand
* Purpose *
1) Public awareness for non-party democracy.
2) Public awareness for removal of election symbols.
3) Creating public awareness against corruption.
Features : 76 meetings were held after traveling for 16 consecutive days.
Janantra Yatra- Public Awareness Tour to Remove Election Symbols
Year - 2013
Duration : 30 March 2013 To 03 August 2013
Total Days : 46
Public Awareness Meetings : 176
Place : Panjab, Hariyana, Uttarakhand, Madhyapradesh, Uttarpradesh.
* Purpose *
1) Public awareness for non-party democracy.
2) Public awareness for removal of election symbols.
3) Creating public awareness against corruption.
Features : 46 days of continuous travel and 174 meetings.
Janantra Yatra- Public Awareness Tour to Remove Election Symbols
Year - 2017 / 2018
Duration : 22 November 2017 To 17 March 2018
Total Days : 59
Public Awareness Meetings : 42
Place : Aasam, Rajsthan, Hariyana, Madhyapradesh, Uttarpradesh.
* Purpose *
1) To appoint the first Lokpal in the country and make a Lokayukta Act for each state.
2) Farmers should get market price based on the cost of agricultural produce.
3) The recommendations of the Swaminath Commission should be implemented by the Central Government.
Features : 59 days of uninterrupted travel and 42 meetings
Operational Area : Odisha, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Haryana, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar