-PTI New Delhi: A bill seeking to amend the Right To Information (RTI) Act to shield political parties from providing information under the transparency law is scheduled to come up for discussion in Lok Sabha on Monday. The Right to Information (Amendment) Bill 2013 was introduced on August 12 in the Lower House by Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions V Narayanasamy but could not be discussed amid repeated...
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Demand to refer RTI Amendment Bill to Standing Committee -Mohammad Ali
-The Hindu Even as the passage of the Right to Information (Amendment) Bill-2013 in Parliament seems imminent, the demand to refer the Bill to a Parliamentary Standing Committee for public consultation is gaining momentum both within and outside the House. After the Biju Janta Dal MP Baijayant Panda, another Lok Sabha MP Ajoy Kumar has written a letter to Speaker Meira Kumar requesting her to refer the Bill to a Standing...
More »Activists meet PM to protest against RTI amendments -Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: With the Right to Information (RTI) act slated for consideration in the Parliament this week concerned activists including Aruna Roy met PM Manmohan Singh to press for the deeper examination of the bill. The activists under the aegis of the National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) including Anjali Bharadwaj and Nikhil Dey also submitted one lakh signatures to a petition seeking deferring the amendments. The...
More »Not all black and white-Ruchi Gupta
-The Hindu Political parties have acted as judge, jury, supplicant and advocate in their move to amend the RTI Act and remove themselves from its purview. Their rhetoric on transparency sounds more hollow now than ever. The RTI Act provides a regime of consummate transparency of "public authorities". Instead of specifying information to be disclosed, the Act mandates 100 per cent transparency subject only to a tightly defined list of exclusions under...
More »Fleeing the light -Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey
-The Hindu Political parties have acted as judge, jury, supplicant and advocate in their move to amend the RTI Act and exempt themselves from its purview. Their rhetoric on transparency is more hollow than ever A friend called the other day, and said: "I want to congratulate all of you in the RTI community, because you have managed to do what no one, and nothing else has managed to for a long...
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