NEW DELHI, Jan 8: Stressing the need for making the government ``for the people'' in the real sense, the Consumer Co-ordination Council (CCC) today urged all political parties to initiate measures for the withdrawal of the state from most areas of economic activity in which the market forces are better placed to deliver the goods.The CCC is a coalition of 40 leading consumer organisations networking with 600 other consumer non-government organisations (NGOs) all over the country. In its charter to the political parties, the council said that India has been dubbed as one of the most corrupt, polluted, illiterate and poverty-stricken countries as the people have been let down by unprincipled politics.The CCC called upon citizens to find an effective answer for themselves to the travails of their day to day life. After making a nation-wide survey on the government-controlled services - health, municipality, banking, telecommunication, electricity and power - the council identified 10 major areas for political parties to take note of for inclusion in their election manifesto.The charter was jointly signed by its founder chairman H.D.Shourie, Dr.S.R. Khanna, its chairman and R. Narayan Moorthy, its director. Moorthy told the Express Newsline that during the last two years more than two lakh postcards from all over the country, in nine different languages - English, Hindi, Gujrati, Malayalam, Tamil, Gurumukhi, Bengali and Kannad - have been sent to the Prime Minister Office (PMO) urging him to make the government more accountable and transparent.
