Essay on Anna Hazare in English : Kisan Baburao Anna Hazare was born on 15 June, 1937 in Bhingar, a small village near the city of Ahmednagar. Anna Hazare's father name was Baburao Hazare. He worked as an unskilled labourer in Ayurveda Ashram Pharmacy. His grandfather was in the Army posted at Bhingar, when he was born. His grandfather died in 1945 but Hazare's father Baburao continued to stay at Bhingar. In 1952 Hazare's father resigned from his job and returned to his own village, Relegan Siddhi Hazare had six younger siblings and the family faced significant hardship. Hazare's childless aunt offered to look after him and his education and took young Kisan to Mumbai. Anna Hazare studied up to the Seventh standard in Mumbai due to the financial situation is his household.
Essay on Anna Hazare in English
Kisan Baburao Anna Hazare popularly known as Anna Hazare. He
is an Indian Social activist and anarcho pacifist who is especially recognised
to the development and structuring of Relegan Siddhi, a village of Ahmednagar
district, Maharashtra. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of
Indian in 1992. Hazare started a fast unto death on 5 April 2011 to exent
pressure on the government of India to enact a strong anti-corruption act as
envisaged in the Jan Lokpal Bill.
Kisan Baburao Anna Hazare was born on 15 June, 1937 in
Bhingar, a small village near the city of Ahmednagar. Anna Hazare's father name
was Baburao Hazare. He worked as an unskilled labourer in Ayurveda Ashram
Pharmacy. His grandfather was in the Army posted at Bhingar, when he was born.
His grandfather died in 1945 but Hazare's father Baburao continued to stay at
Bhingar. In 1952 Hazare's father resigned from his job and returned to his own
village, Relegan Siddhi Hazare had six younger siblings and the family faced
significant hardship. Hazare's childless aunt offered to look after him and his
education and took young Kisan to Mumbai. Anna Hazare studied up to the Seventh
standard in Mumbai due to the financial situation is his household. He started selling
flowers at Dadar to support his family. He soon started his own shop and
brought to of his brothers to Bombay in 1962. Despite not meeting the physical
requirement, 25 years old Anna was selected, as emergency recruitment was
taking place in the Indian Army. After training at Aurangabad in Maharashtra he
started his career in the Indian Army as a driver in 1963. Hazare took an oath
to dedicate his life to the service of humanity, at the age of 38.
In 1975 after a voluntary retirement from the Indian army,
Hazare went to his native village Relegaon Siddhi. Hazare made remarkable
economic, social and community regeneration in Ralegaon Siddhi. Ralegan is
located in the foothills, so Hazare persualed villagers to construct a
watershed embankment to stop water and allow it to percolate and increase the
ground water level and improve irrigation when Hazare came in Ralegan Siddhi in
1975 only to acres of land was irrigated Hazare converted it into about 2,500
acres. In 1932 Relegan Siddhi got its first formal school, a single classroom
primary school. In 1962, the villagers added more classroom volunteer efforts.
By 1971, out of an estimated population of 1209 only 30.43% were literate. In
1976 they started a pre-school and a high school in 1979. The social barriers
and discrimination that existed due to the caste system in India have been
largely eliminated by Relegan Siddhi villagers. It was Anna Hazare moral leadership
that motivated and inspired the people of Relegan Siddhi to shun untouchability
and discrimination against the Dalit. People of all casts come together to
celebrate social events. Hazare campaigned between 1998 and 2006 for amending
the Gram Sabha Act, so that the villagers have a say in the development works
in their village. In Ralegan Siddhi, Gram Sabha meetings are held periodically
to discuss issues relating to the welfare of the village. In 1991 Hazare
launched the Bhrashtachar Virodhi Jan Aundalon in Relegan Siddhi.
Hunger Strike in Delhi-Hazare began his fast unto death on 5
April, 2011 at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to press for the demand to form a joint
committee of the representative of the Government and the civil society to
draft a stranger anti-corruption bill. Almost 150 people, reportedly joined
Hazare in his fast, Social activist, including Medha Patkar, Arvind Kejriwal,
former IPS officer Kiran Bedi and Jayaprakash narayan support to Hazare’s
Hunger strike and anti corruption campaign.
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