-The Hindu The Ahmedabad police on Saturday arrested seven persons in connection with the November 5 murder of Congress worker and RTI activist Nadeem Sayed, a key witness in the Naroda-Patiya massacre case during the 2002 Gujarat riots. Among them was Kalu Gardan, who, it was claimed, knifed Nadeem when he came out of his Juhapura residence. While the motive was still not known, the police earlier detained a builder, Mehboob senior,...
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Aruna Roy, founder member of NCPRI and MKSS interviewed by Pamela Philipose
- Women's Feature Service These are busy days for Aruna Roy, founder member of the National Campaign for the People’s Right to Information (NCPRI) and the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), with the Jan Lok Pal and the need to check corruption emerging as big concerns in India. The woman, who traded a promising career in the bureaucracy for an activist’s existence in 1975, is presently intensely involved in the issue. Pamela...
More »Aruna Roy demands critical changes in grievance redress bill
-DNA Drilling into government’s draft of grievance redress bill, National Advisory Council (NAC) member Aruna Roy and her colleagues from National Campaign for Peoples’ Right to Information (NCPRI) on Wednesday demanded some critical changes in the proposed law to make it more useful to a common man. They also vowed to start a “public movement” in case government refused to pay heed to them. Congress led-United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government is already...
More »Aruna Roy-led body faults govt's grievance bill
-The Times of India Activist Aruna Roy-led National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) has opposed the government's grievance redressal bill saying it was "seriously compromised" and would be ineffective in providing weaker sections of society with any relief in its present form. NCPRI's stinging critique of the bill is significant because Roy is an influential member of the National Advisory Council that functions under UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. The government...
More »CIC advice on RTI unlikely to be heeded by govt schools by Rageshri Ganguly
Inclusion of Right to Information (RTI) Act in the revised syllabus of the state government schools is unlikely to see the light of day as recommendations made by the chief information commissioner (CIC) in this regard reached the Chief Minister's office only on November 11, barely about a few days before the syllabus of the next academic session is being finalized. The CIC Padmapani Tiwari had recommended on October 24 to...
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