The draft Lokpal bill made public by the Government of India (June 21st version) does not yet have clearance from the Cabinet, but is most likely to be the version that will be introduced in Parliament. Therefore, it is important to critique it and suggest ways of improving it at this stage. Once it gets introduced in Parliament it is far more difficult for citizens to get their voices heard, and far more difficult to get the government to respond to those voices and agree to make the required changes. This exercise, consequently, is an effort to establish a tradition of pre-legislative public consultations on proposed laws, even though in this case what is available is an unofficial draft.