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‘Recognition of collective effort…amid attacks on those raising questions’: Anjali Bhardwaj -Sourav Roy Barman

-The Indian Express New Delhi: On Tuesday, the government of the United States named Anjali Bhardwaj among 12 individuals from across the world as the recipients of the newly-instituted Anti-Corruption Champions Award. “When we don’t get ration, what do we do with information?” Sometime in 2005, right after the implementation of the Right to Information Act, activist Anjali Bhardwaj was holding an awareness camp at a Delhi slum when a woman threw this...

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Supreme Court criticises govt for non-reply to Jairam Ramesh’s plea on changes in rti Act

-The Hindu Court, in Jan. 2020, asked Centre to file reply to plea, which contended that rti Amendment Act of 2019 and its Rules cripple CIC’s objectivity, independence. The Supreme Court on Monday criticised the Union government for having not filed a reply for over a year to a petition by parliamentarian Jairam Ramesh challenging the amendments made to the Right to Information Act. The court, in January 2020, asked the Centre to...

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PhD entry in IITs tougher for students from marginalised communities -Pon Vasanth BA

-The Hindu Despite official policy, OBC, SC and ST applicants less likely to gain admission as compared to those from General Categories Chennai: Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe applicants are half as likely to get selected for a Ph.D. programme at leading IITs in the country as aspirants from the General Category (GC) are. Data collated from a series of rti applications, including from The Hindu, on the number of applicants versus the...

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Unexpected? Western regional meet objects to Gujarat order 'blacklisting' rti applicants

-Counterview.net Speaking at the western region consultation on the Right to Information (rti) Act, whose two-day virtual session began on Thursday, Aruna Roy, formerly a member of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi-sponsored national advisory panel, has said that governments should recognise rti has emerged as common citizens’ right to seek answers from authorities instead of seeing rti pleas with suspicion. A pioneer of the rti movement in India, Roy objecting to recent orders...

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The taming of rti -Vinita Deshmukh

-The Hindu A look at how the rti Act has been systematicallyassaulted by successive governments to blunt its efficacy and make governance less transparent For 24 years, until the enactment of the Right to Information Act (rti) in 2005, Shivaji Raut was an ordinary teacher, the vice-principal of Anant English Medium School in Satara district in western Maharashtra. But when he discovered the power of rti in demanding accountability and transparency from...

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