Whistle-blowers are very lesser according to the corruption level in India. We’re very well known about the famous whistle-blower Ingvar Bratt who is a Swedish Bofors Engineer who revealed himself about the Bofors Scandal; how Indian Prime Minister Raiv Gandhi accepted payments from Bratt’s company, a Swedish gun maker Bofors, in returns for some government contract. It leads to loss to Rajiv Gandhi in 1989 General Election in India. However, the top politicians received a kickback of US 9.5$ million. Like Bratt. Some rare Indian whistle-blowers are there about whom you must read and know.
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| Satyendra Dubey |
Satyendra Dubey
He exposed the highway construction projects in India by NHAI in 2003. He revealed some of the fraud and substandard projects of NHAI and lettered it to the current Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. He was a Civil Engineer from IIT Kanpur and worked as a Project Director in Indian Engineering Service (IES) in NHAI, Jharkhand. On early morning of 27th November 2003 he was shot dead due to exposing corruption in government system. He was only 30.
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| Shanmugham Manjunath |
Shanmugham Manjunath
He was a Grade-A Officer in the post of Manager in India Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL) who was murdered for sealing a petrol pump in Uttar Pradesh, India. He sealed a corrupt petrol pump at Lakhmipur Kheri of U.P. and shot dead on 19th November 2005.
M. N. Vijayakumar
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| M. N. Vijayakumar |
A 1981-batch IAS bureaucrat who revealed several serious corruption cases in high levels in the state of Karnataka, who how their colleagues make add-on income through various bribe, kickback or under-draw offers. Due to which he was dismissed only four days before his retirement. His wife J. N. Jayashree created a website to protect her husband.
Vijay Pandhare
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| Vijay Pandhare |
He was the Chief Engineer in Irrigation Department under Govt. of Maharashtra who revealed some Maharashtra Irrigation scams of Rs. 120 billion in 2012 that caused to resignation of Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. He exposed some irregularities and cost inflation in irrigation projects. After his retirement in 2013, he joined the political party named ‘Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’.
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