How an image-fixated chief minister has bent the state’s media to his will If you haven’t heard of an income tax raid on the residential premises of Nitish Kumar’s close aide and treasurer of the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U), Vinay Kumar Sinha, you are not alone. Thanks to the local media, it took a while even in Patna—where the house is located—for people to get to know. This, incidentally, is the...
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CIC to CJI: Lend your voice to strengthen, not curb, RTI
-The Hindu Expressing concern over the reported comments of the Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia that Right to Information queries were impeding the working of Judges, the Chief Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi had written to the CJI to lend his powerful voice to increasing the effectiveness and reach of RTI and not support those who seek to curb it. In a recent letter addressed to Mr. Justice Kapadia, the CIC drew...
More »Karnataka's BPO for RTI in limbo-Pradeesh Chandran
The government’s ambitious plan for setting up a business process outsourcing (BPO) centre for RTI filing is in a limbo as the company which won the bid has had no communication since winning the bid. The government was planning to set up a BPO for the process in Bangalore through which the general public could file petitions under the Right to Information Act. The project, which was expected to be...
More »Detenu can't invoke RTI Act, Centre tells apex court
-PTI The Centre today told Supreme Court that habitual offenders detained under special preventive detention laws cannot invoke the jurisdiction of the Right To Information(RTI) Act to know the grounds for the action against them. Appearing before a three-judge bench of justices Altamas Kabir, Gyan Sudha Mishra and J Chalameshwar, Additional Solictor General P P Malhotra said the RTI Act was not available to suspects as the legislation was subordinate to...
More »Delhi: 70 pc schools still flouting Right to Education norms-Subhajit Sengupta
Schools in Delhi are openly flouting the Right to Education norms. The RTE has mandated 25 per cent seats in private schools for economically backward students. But more than 70 per cent schools in the capital couldn't care less. But with the Supreme Court upholding the Act, they may not have a choice any more. The Supreme Court had mandated that all private unaided schools across the country should reserve 25...
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