The popular socialist Arvind Kejrival was born in Hisar which is located in the state of Haryana and on June 16, 1968. He is also good in studies and this is the reason, he received an opportunity to work with Tata Steel Company after completing his graduation from IIT Kharagpur. He worked in that organization till 1992. He resigned fro his position in that company and switched to Civil Services examination and he cracked it to join as the Joint Commissioner in Indian Revenues services. He started working in Income Tax department of New Delhi division. While, he was working in that department, in 2000, he resigned from their as well and started a NGO in Delhi itself, Parivartan. In the year of 2006, he ultimately taken resignation fro his job and started working for social causes.
The foundation of Parivartan had taken place in the Delhi itself and it was maintained by the volunteers of Kejriwal itself. It was established so that it may make the country corruption free. The basic agenda of this society was to remove corruption from the system of government. It had also solved various problems of the people who were facing problem due to corrupted system. The NGO worked a lot in the field of education and also for public distribution system. Today also, the NGO is working to improve the working inside the government offices and providing benefits of RTI to the people.
Arvind Kejrival is the personality who implemented the Central Right to Information Act and he is the only person because of which, RTI Delhi is possible today.
He was also awarded with the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2006 for Emerging Leadership and changing the trend of government working for the common people. He is a devoted person to all the social activities and participated strongly in all of them and also won various prizes for his services. He was also come into light from the second movement which was the struggle which he faced for the implementation of Lok Pal Bill. He was also accompanied by Anna Hazare who is also the popular socialist. He received much support from the people during his Hunger Strike and other movements that he carried on.
Arvind Kejriwal is the person who met various popular celebrities in his lifetime. He also met Mother Teresa and he was really impressed by her service that she delivered to others. He also served the people in Kali Ghat and followed the path of Mother Teresa while she was in West Bengal.
The main idea behind his getting socialist was he wants to see the country Corruptin-Free. In this way, he joined the hands of socialists who also think in the same manner. During his movements, people of the country were stay with him and supported him a lot. He played a strong role in the anti corruption events in which people had given him full support.
He is the youth icon and this is the reason that he got support from the youths of the country for his movements.
Some Interesting facts About Shri Arvind Kejriwal-
- Kejriwal's father was a reputed engineer & he has spen most of his child days in Small areas like Mathura, hisar & Sonepat.
- Arvind Kejriwal did his schooling from the Campus School.
- Kejriwal is married to Sunita, who is also an IRS officer and his batch mate from National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie
- Presently Sunita is working as an Additional Director in Serious Fraud Investigation Office, Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
- Kejriwal graduated from IIT Kharagpur with a B.Tech. In Mechanical Engineering in 1989.
- Kejriwal joined Tata Steel right after his graduation from IIT Kharagpur.
- Kejriwal spent lot of years working with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, the Ramakrishna Mission in the North-East India and Nehru Yuva Kendra.
- Kejriwal joined the Indian Revenue Service in 1992 after qualifying through the Civil Services Examination.
- In Feb 2006, kejriwal decided to leave his IRS post to serve his country publically. Thats why he resigned from his IRS post from the Income Tax Department.
- After voluntary resignation from job, he founded Parivartan, a Delhi based citizens movement which works on ensuring a just, transparent and accountable governance
- Organization - Parivartan ,Public Cause Research Foundation, India Against Corruption
- Political movement - Janlokpal Bill , Indian anti-corruption movement, 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, Right to Information
- IRS officer-turned-anti-corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal won the Roman Magsaysay award in 2006 for his contribution to the enactment of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005.
- In 2006 after resigning from IRS, he founded an NGO Public cause Research Foundation.
- Public Cause Research Foundation was set up on the 19th of December, 2006 by Magsaysay awardee Arvind Kejriwal, former journalist Manish Sisodia and Abhinandan Sekhri to ensure that society becomes more inclusive and that real power rests with the common citizens of India.To this end, Mr Kejriwal donated the prize money of his Magsaysay award as corpus fund to PCRF.
- The Foundation works to collect, research, analyse, and disseminate information about various aspects of governance to ensure that rules and laws are enacted and enforced and policies implemented. For this, PCRF uses the RTI act extensively and promotes awareness of the act.
- Arvind Kejriwal joined Anna Hazare started fight for Janlokpal Bill and a one team was formed known as Team Anna
- Team Anna got support from educated and politically aware Indian citizens but they did not get the support from any political party.
- It is very simple No criminal or thief will appoint a police officer to arrest him. In layman language Lokpal law or bill means a appointment of police officer to arrest and control corruption done by the politicians
- Arvind Kejriwal has written a book "Swaraj
- In 2004, Kejriwal got Ashoka Fellow, Civic Engagement Award
- In 2005, Kejriwal won the prestigious 'Satyendra K. Dubey Memorial Award', IIT Kanpur for his campaign for bringing transparency in Government.
- Award -2006: Ramon Magsaysay Award for Eminent Leadership.
- In 2006 Kejriwal won the CNN-IBN, 'Indian of the Year' Award in Public Service. This award made him popular.
- Award -2009: Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Kharagpur for Eminent Leadership.
- Award -2010: Policy Change Agent of the Year, The Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence along with Aruna Roy.
- In 2011 NDTV Indian of the Year along with Anna Hazare
- Award -Arvind Kejariwal has also won an IIM Gold Medal.
- October, 2 , 2012 Arvind Kejriwal Launched his own political party
- The name of the political party of Arvind Kejriwal is ------------. You all Know that it's Aam Aadmi Part (AAP).
