Political Science · Political Processes in India
UGC NET Dec 2023 Political Science
Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) pioneered which movement in India?
ANamantar Andolan
BNirbhaya Movement
CJan Sunwai ✓ Correct
DNone of the above
Correct answer: (C) Jan Sunwai — The Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan pioneered the Jan Sunwai, or public hearing, in India.
Explanation
★The Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan pioneered the Jan Sunwai, or public hearing, in India.
★The MKSS was formed in Rajasthan in 1990 under leaders including Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh.
★In a Jan Sunwai, official records of spending are read out before villagers, who expose corruption and false entries.
★This social-audit method built the wider campaign that led to the Right to Information Act of 2005.
★The Namantar Andolan was a Dalit movement to rename Marathwada University, and Nirbhaya protests concerned women's safety in 2012.
★Connect MKSS to its method: the Jan Sunwai public hearing and the road to the Right to Information Act.
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