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Jaya Prakash Narayana (born 14 January 1956) is an Indian liberal politician, activist and a former public administrator. He is the founder and president of
Lok Satta Party Lok Satta is a classical liberal political party in India, founded by Nagabhairava Jaya Prakash Narayana, a former IAS officer and renowned activist from Andhra Pradesh. Since 1996, the Lok Satta Movement functioned as a non-governmental or ...
. He served as a
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from
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constituency of
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in India. He is a physician by training. He served as an officer of the
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from 1980 to 1996, later took voluntary resignation from the service and started the Loksatta Movement, which had been instrumental in bringing several important national reforms. He is also the founder and General Secretary of
Foundation for Democratic Reforms The Foundation for Democratic Reforms is a non-profit, non-partisan and independent research institution founded by Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, an Indian Administrative Service officer turned politician and a political activist based in Hyderabad. ...
(NGO), an independent public-policy think-tank and research-resource centre. Narayana is also a political reformer and columnist. He is well known for his role in electoral reforms and the Right to Information (RTI) act. He has also written columns in Indian newspapers, such as ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Financial Express'', ''
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'' and ''
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'', and hosted television shows covering elections and politics such as ''Pratidhwani'', and also acts as a mentor to Vision India Foundation.


Early life

Jayaprakash Narayana was born on 14 January 1956, in Naghbir,
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into a Telugu speaking family of Venkateswara Rao and Balamma. His father was a Railway employee. Narayana was raised in Godavarru Village from the age of 3, near
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in
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, and pursued his education in Telugu Medium. He joined Andhra Loyola College in 1969 for his intermediate education. He obtained his medical degree from
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.


Civil service

Narayana joined public administration after making it to IAS in 1980 standing All India Rank 4. He worked on agriculture, irrigation, technology, and youth rehabilitation projects in various capacities and in various districts of
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and
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. Some of his achievements during his 16-year-long career in government include: * As Joint Collector, he created full and permanent employment for 8,000 youth from displaced families of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant. * As Collector of East Godavari District, he spearheaded the reconstruction of drainage and irrigation network in
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, Prakasam and
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. * As Collector of Prakasam district, he successfully mobilized farmers on a large scale to take up irrigation schemes to bring a record two lakh acres under irrigation. * He strengthened the credit cooperatives by making them independent of government control. * Served as a Secretary to both Governor, Krishna Kant and the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh,
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. He also has several major policy initiatives to his credit. * Empowerment of parents in schools. * Speedy justice through rural courts. * Economic reforms and restructuring of AP. * Development of the Infocity
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(Hyderabad Information Technology Engineering Consultancy City) in Hyderabad to facilitate the growth of the software industry. * Empowerment of local governments and stakeholders. * The much-acclaimed law for self-reliant cooperatives (1995).


Positions held

*
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of
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,
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from 1982 to 1984. * Joint Collector of
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from 1984 to 1986. *District Collector of
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from 1986 to 1989. *District Collector of
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from 1989 to 1990. *MD of Andhra Pradesh State Cooperative Bank Limited from 1990 to 1992. *Principal Secretary to the Governor of Andhra Pradesh from 1992 to 1994. *Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from 12 December 1994 to 1 September 1995 *MD of
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from 1995 to 1996.


Social reforms

Narayana's experience in the government convinced him that the faulty governance process is the biggest hurdle in India's path of progress and Indians achieving greater success. What India needs today is a fundamental change in the rules of the game and not a periodic change of players. In order to translate his vision into practical reality, he resigned from the I.A.S in 1996 so that he could work on the
grassroots A grassroots movement is one that uses the people in a given district, region or community as the basis for a political or continent movement. Grassroots movements and organizations use collective action from volunteers at the local level to imp ...
movement for
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. Narayan talked about the efficacy of reforms in the governance and
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among several other issues on various platforms in educational and political institutes. He emphasizes that
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is for the people, of the people and by the people.


Political and administrative reforms

Narayana has served on the following panels: * The
National Advisory Council The National Advisory Council (NAC) was an advisory body set up by the first United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in 2004 to advise the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh. Sonia Gandhi served as its chairperson for much of the tenur ...
(NAC) for the implementation of the National Common Minimum Programme (CMP), July 2004 through August 2006 * Vigilance Advisory Council, constituted by the Central Vigilance Commission, November 2004 * Second
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constituted by the Government of India in September 2005 * National Rural Health Mission of India Task Force, 2005 to 2007.


Foundation For Democratic Reforms

Narayana is the founder member of
Foundation for Democratic Reforms The Foundation for Democratic Reforms is a non-profit, non-partisan and independent research institution founded by Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, an Indian Administrative Service officer turned politician and a political activist based in Hyderabad. ...
(FDR) and currently serves as its general secretary. FDR is one of India's leading think-tanks and research-resource centers for formulating and promoting fundamental reforms in political, electoral and governance spheres and in critical areas of state policy.


India's Future Foundation

Narayana is Adviser of India's Future Foundation, A free market educational foundation that promotes ideas those inspire by Swatantra party and its founders such as individual liberty, a market economy, limited government. He has spoken at multiple events of Indias Future Foundation on economic development and wealth creation and good governance.


Youth Parliament Program

Narayana is Adviser of
Youth Parliament Program The Youth Parliament or Youth Parliament Program (YPP), an integral part of the Swatantrata Center, is a Liberalism, liberal public policy think-tank based in India which focuses on ideas and policies that cause human flourishment and India's Fut ...
(YPP), Youth Parliament is an ideal platform for socially conscious youth to express their Views, Ideas and to act as a change agent in National building process.


Lok Satta Movement

Narayana started the ''
Lok Satta Movement Lok Satta is a non-partisan movement for democratic reforms in the country of India, led by Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, a former I. A. S. officer and renowned activist from Andhra Pradesh, India. The movement was started in 1996 with the found ...
'' in 1996 to educate the citizens of India about voting, rights and government. Lok Satta, a non-partisan movement for democratic reforms in India, worked on various activities like election reforms, police reforms, right to information act and voter registration procedures. The movement initially started in
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and later spread across the country, including
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and the Vote JUHU campaigns. Lok Satta has emerged as India's leading civil society initiative for governance reforms and is at the forefront of key initiatives like disclosure of candidate wealth and criminal history details, political funding reform, decriminalization of politics, improvement of electoral registration, comprehensive judicial reforms including local courts and national judicial commission and citizen's charters. Lok Satta movement has also been the driving force in achieving the following governance reforms in recent years, among others: * Substantial reduction in short delivery of petroleum products in all retail outlets (1998 – 2003) * Significant improvements in voter registration (1999 – till date). * Disclosure of candidate details, and the disclosure law (2003). * Political funding reform law of 2003 in the wake of Tehelka expose. * Strengthening the anti-defection provisions (X Schedule changes, 2003). * Limiting the size of Council of Ministers (91st Amendment, 2003). * Right to Information Act, 2005. * National Rural Health Mission (2005). * Gram Nyayalayas Act, 2009. * Support to Lokpal Act, 2011. * Cancellation of 122 licences of 2-G spectrum by Supreme Court, and revision of policy to ensure allocation of all-natural resources through competitive bidding (2012). * 97th Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing autonomy to cooperatives (2012). * 99th Amendment to the Constitution creating National Judicial Appointments Commission (2015).


Political career

Narayana started the
Lok Satta party Lok Satta is a classical liberal political party in India, founded by Nagabhairava Jaya Prakash Narayana, a former IAS officer and renowned activist from Andhra Pradesh. Since 1996, the Lok Satta Movement functioned as a non-governmental or ...
on 2 October 2006 with clean politics, good governance and improvement of India as the main goals. When he launched the party, he stated that this party aimed to enrich the political scenario in India with its true spirit. He felt that it could be considered as an alternative to any other political party, since it aimed to create a true and faithful political picture in
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without involving illegitimate money, liquor, and caste in elections.


2008 By-elections

In 2008, the
Lok Satta Party Lok Satta is a classical liberal political party in India, founded by Nagabhairava Jaya Prakash Narayana, a former IAS officer and renowned activist from Andhra Pradesh. Since 1996, the Lok Satta Movement functioned as a non-governmental or ...
ran in the Assembly by-elections for the first time, and was able to secure second place in two of the four places ( Khiratabad, Terlam) it contested seats.


Andhra Pradesh 13th Assembly

Narayana is one of the vocal leaders in assembly proceedings. Some of the major contributions to Andhra Pradesh 13th assembly are: * proposed the Anti Corruption Bill to amend the State's Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, to curb corruption in the state by including elected members under civil servants. * advanced all party resolution to elect deputy speaker from opposition; * opposed amendment to Andhra Pradesh Societies Act claiming that it is against the right to form unions as per the Constitution; * opposed populist schemes in 2009, 2010 and 2011 Andhra Pradesh Budgets. * pressed the need for gas grid and industrial development; * condemned the demolition of statues on Tankbund; * demanded investigation into land and natural resource allocation scams and provided evidences. According to the sources, he later declared that they would come back with an updated Loksatta 2.0 version that would focus on restructuring and reinforcing federalism, establishing quality universal health care and education to all and liability to taxpayers at local level.


Felicitations

Narayan has been felicitated with several laurels. These include: * Honored with the "Rotary Manav Seva Award 2002" for his crusade against corruption. * Awarded the "Yudhvir Memorial Award 2002" for his outstanding contribution to the cause of good governance. * Awarded the "Dr. Rustam D.Ranji Rotary Award" by Rotary Club of India. * Awarded the "D. Ch. Tirupathi Raju Memorial Award 2004" * Honored with prestigious "Dr. Pinnamaneni Sita Devi Foundation Award". * Honored with the "Bharat Asmita Jana Jagran Shreshta" - in the area of Public Awakening. * Felicitated by the Hyderabad Software Exporters Association, Hyderabad in recognition for his contribution to the growth of IT industry.


Participation in national panels

Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan has served on several national panels. Notable among them are: * National Advisory Council (NAC), 2004- 2006. * Vigilance Advisory Council constituted by the Central Vigilance Commission, 2004 – 2008. * Second
Administrative Reforms Commission The Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) is the commission appointed by the Government of India for giving recommendations for reviewing the public Public administration, administration system of India. The first ARC was established on 5 Jan ...
constituted by the Government of India from 2005 – 2007.


See also

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Lok Satta Party Lok Satta is a classical liberal political party in India, founded by Nagabhairava Jaya Prakash Narayana, a former IAS officer and renowned activist from Andhra Pradesh. Since 1996, the Lok Satta Movement functioned as a non-governmental or ...
*
Lok Satta Movement Lok Satta is a non-partisan movement for democratic reforms in the country of India, led by Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, a former I. A. S. officer and renowned activist from Andhra Pradesh, India. The movement was started in 1996 with the found ...


References


External links

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Lok Satta Party website

Foundation for Democratic Reforms

Youth Parliament Program
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