-PTI In a step towards greater transparency, the government has started a unique facility of submitting RTI applications and fees online. The portal--www.rtionline.gov.in-- has been created with an aim to help people exercise their right to seek information through online medium, said officials in Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), which acts as nodal department for the implementation of transparency law in the country. An information seeker can submit a fee of Rs...

-DNA The 97th constitutional amendment made RTI Activists happy because they believed that it brought co-operative housing societies under the purview of the RTI Act. In February, the state passed its own ordinance implementing the amendment. State chief information commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad does not stand with the activists' consensus. He spoke with dna's Ashutosh Shukla about cooperative societies, pending second appeals and voluntary disclosure. Your opinion on housing societies coming under RTI? I don't think that...

-The Times of India YAVATMAL: A 20-year-old youth attacked social worker and RTI Activist Digambar Pajgade (52) with a sharp weapon on Tuesday morning and injured him. Passersby rushed Pajgade toGovernment Medical College, where he was admitted in the emergency ward. The attacker inflicted deep wounds on the head of Pajgade, a resident of local Jamankar Nagar. The attacker, Mayur Vadafale, a resident of village Wagapur, fled the spot after throwing the...

-The Hindu The Act grants legal recognition to the rights of traditional forest dwelling communities Jawhar (Thane): The Additional Collector's headquarter here was abuzz even before its gates opened on Monday morning. Around 100 tribals from various villages in the Jawhar tehsil had already queued to begin what they had aptly named as first of its kind ‘RTI Satyagraha' against the alleged unlawful implementation of The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest...

-The Indian Express On January 12 last year, RTI applicant Dinesh Suryavanshi had sought information related to class XI admissions under Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005. Even after two appeals and a showcause notice issued to education department officials, he is still waiting for a response from them. "I wanted to know about the total number of seats reserved for SC, ST candidates, the stipulated seats in management courses and the...