In a gesture to the growing public disenchantment over Scams and corruption in public life, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's New Year resolutions for 2011 include “cleansing” the country's governing processes. Wishing all Indians a happy New Year, Dr. Singh said in a brief statement that it was time to take stock of the year gone by and make a new beginning. “Let us dispel the air of despondency and cynicism. We...
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Information Commissioner pulls up Delhi government for cheating poor farmer by Vidya Subrahmaniam
Not given alternative plot for his land acquired 18 years ago Unlettered Bir Singh allowed to read a file and made to sign on a blank paper Information Commissioner terms it “an open robbing of a poor man by the state” In the season of Scams and collusion of the powerful, it should surprise nobody if a poor farmer, whose land was acquired by the Delhi government 18 years ago, is still searching...
More »RTI activists seek Maharashtra information commissioner’s ouster by Dinesh Thite
Right to information (RTI) activists in the city have demanded the state government to invoke section 17 (3) (e) of the RTI Act, 2005, to remove Ramanand Tiwari from the post of state information commissioner (SIC), as his son owns a flat in the controversial Adarsh Housing Society in Mumbai. President of Nagrik Chetna Manch, Maj Gen (retd) SCN Jatar, president of Sajag Nagrik Manch, Vivek Velankar, Surajya Sangharsh Samiti chief...
More »Graft fight put on fast track by Sanjay K Jha
The government will shortly set up an anti-corruption mechanism in the backdrop of scandals in which the Opposition has targeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. As legislative measures will be required to introduce certain provisions, it can even pilot an ordinance. Sources said the Prime Minister was giving “serious thought” to this mechanism with a blueprint having already been prepared, incorporating the suggestions given by Congress president Sonia Gandhi at the party...
More »JPC route won't help swift prosecution: Shourie by N Rahul
The former Union Minister, Arun Shourie, has opposed any probe by a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) into the 2G spectrum Scam, stating that it would become an excuse for the government to slow down the prosecution process. Mr. Shourie said at a meeting organised by an NGO, Manthan, here on Thursday that a swift and speedy prosecution was required in the case, but the JPC would take two years to complete...
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