-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has been headless for the past five months, spawning an unprecedented backlog of applications and fears the delay could sound the "death knell" for transparency. Over 200 people - other commission members and retired bureaucrats - are vying to become the chief information commissioner, according to activist Lokesh Batra who had filed a plea on the matter under the Right to Information Act...
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2014: A year of attempts to strangle the RTI -Vinita Deshmukh
-MoneyLife.in If 2014 was the triumph of the BJP which brought it to power with a thumping majority, it was also the year when this new government used its power to strangulate the Right To Information Act (RTI), as much as it could. Here are some of the milestones for RTI in 2014. Please click here to read more. ...
More »One-third of Capital’s organic veggies have pesticide residues: CCFI -Tomojit Basu
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: Following up on its October investigation of data irregularities in the National Project on Organic Farming (NPOF), the Crop Care Federation of India (CCFI) stated on Tuesday that it had found pesticide residues in one-third of the organic products retailed in New Delhi that are marketed as chemical pesticide-free. The owner of a retail store mentioned in the response by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI),...
More »With no CIC, RTI appeals pile up -Rukmini S
-The Hindu When a new Chief Information Commissioner is appointed, he or she will find a mammoth 10,000 Right to Information appeals pending. The new government's delay in appointing a new chief has led to the pendency shooting up, much of it surrounding new policy decisions taken by the government. The Chief Information Commissioner heads the Central Information Commission, the body that hears appeals from information-seekers who have not been satisfied...
More »17 months on, political parties ignore RTI ruling -Rukmini S
-The Hindu They have neither sought review of CIC ruling nor challenged it in court Seventeen months after the Central Information Commission ruled that the Right to Information Act applied to six national political parties, none of them has complied with the Act or appealed against it. A full Bench of the commission, comprising Information Commissioners Vijai Sharma, Sharat Sabharwal and Manjula Prasher, had posted a hearing on the parties' non-compliance with its...
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