Chairperson and Members of Lokpal - Appointment

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1. The Chairperson and members shall be appointed by the President on the recommendation of a selection committee.
2. Following persons shall not be eligible to become Chairman or Member in Lokpal:
• Any person who was ever chargesheeted for any offence under IPC or PC Act or was ever penalized under CCS Conduct Rules.
• Any person who is less than 40 years in age.
3. At least four members of Lokpal shall have legal background.
4. The members and Chairperson should have unimpeachable integrity and should have demonstrated their resolve and efforts to fight against corruption in the past.
5. A selection committee consisting of the following shall be set up:
• The Chairpersons of both Houses of Parliament
• Two senior most judges of Supreme Court
• Two senior most Chief Justices of High Courts.
• All Nobel Laureates of Indian Origin.
• Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission.
• Last two Magsaysay Award winners of Indian origin.
• Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
• Chief Election Commissioner.
• Bharat Ratna Award winners.
• After the first set of selection process, the outgoing members and Chairperson of Lokpal.
6. The seniormost judge of Supreme Court shall act as the Chairperson of the selection committee.
7. The following selection process shall be followed:
• Recommendations shall be invited through open advertisements in prescribed format.
• Each person recommending shall be expected to justify the selection of his candidate giving examples from the past achievements of the candidate.
• The list of candidates along with their recommendations received in the format mentioned above shall be displayed on a website.
• Each member of the selection committee, on the basis of the above material, shall recommend such number of names as there are vacancies.
• A priority list shall be prepared with the candidate receiving recommendations from maximum number of members of selection committee at the top. The candidates recommended by same number of members shall be treated at par.
• This priority list shall be displayed on the website.
• Around three times the names as there are vacancies, shall be shortlisted from the top.
• Public feedback shall be invited on the shortlisted names by putting these names on the website.
• The selection committee may decide to use any means to collect more information about the background and past achievements of the shortlisted candidates.
• Selection committee shall invite shortlisted candidates for discussions, video recordings of which shall be made public.
• All the material obtained so far about the candidates shall be made available to each member of the selection committee in advance. The members shall make their own assessment of each candidate.
• The selection committee shall meet and discuss the material so received about each candidate. The final selections for the Chairperson and members shall be made preferably through consensus. Provided that if three or more members, for reasons to be recorded in writing, object to the selection of any member, he shall not be selected.
• All meetings of selection committee shall be video recorded and shall be made public.
8. The Prime Minister shall recommend the names finalized by the selection committee to the President immediately, who shall order such appointments within a month of receipt of the same.
9. If any of the members of the selection committee retires while a selection process is going on, that member will continue on the selection committee till the end of that process.

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