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For the record

Text of the Gazette Notification,constituting the Joint Drafting Committee to draft the Lok Pal Bill

The Joint Drafting Committee shall consist of five nominee ministers of the Government of India and five nominees of Shri Anna Hazare (including himself).

The five nominee ministers are: Pranab Mukherjee,Union Minister of Finance,P Chidambaram,Union Minister of Home Affairs,M Veerappa Moily,Union Minister of Law and Justice,Kapil Sibal,Union Minister of HRD and Minister of Communication and Information Technology and Salman Khursheed,Union Minister of Water Resources and Minister of Minority Affairs.

The five nominees of Anna Hazare (including himself) are: Anna Hazare,Justice N Santosh Hegde,Shanti Bhushan,Senior Advocate,Prashant Bhushan,Advocate,and Arvind Kejriwal.

The Chairperson of the Joint Drafting Committee shall be Pranab Mukherjee. The Co-Chairperson shall be Shanti Bhushan. The Convenor shall be M Veerappa Moily.

The Joint Drafting Committee shall commence its work forthwith and evolve its own procedure to prepare the proposed legislation. The committee shall complete its work latest by 30th June,2011.