-The Hindu ‘Information Commissioners are not being appointed’ Hyderabad: Releasing her RTI Story Power to The People in the city, activist Aruna Roy, who led the movement for getting the legislation in place, said citizens were moving towards a more challenging and non-transparent environment. “This government has consolidated opaqueness. It has systematically weakened the RTI Act by granting exemptions to CBI and other agencies on security grounds. Electoral bonds are a case in...
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In Maharashtra, 22 babies died daily within 28 days of birth: RTI reply
-The Hindu Doctors emphasise need for protocol for newborn intensive care Mumbai: As many as 13,541 children under the age of five died in the State in a span of 11 months, a Right to Information (RTI) application has revealed. A study of 11,532 deaths between April 2017 and February 2018 by the health department revealed that 65% of the children — 22 a day on an average — died in the first...
More »West Bengal's public service panel inactive, RTI reply reveals -Soumya Das
-The Hindu Not conducted hearings: RTI reply The State commission to ensure delivery of public services has been inactive since its inception in 2015, an RTI reply by the West Bengal government has revealed. The West Bengal Right to Public Service Commission has not conducted any hearing since its inception and is unable to provide any information about it through RTI, an activist claimed. The RTI queries were filed by Kolkata-based Biswanath Goswami. The...
More »How RTI Act is dying a slow death in India -Chetan Chauhan
-Hindustan Times A 6% fall between 2015-16 and 2016-17 was reported in RTI applications filed with the 1,950 public authorities of the Central government, which receives maximum information applications followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka. The right to information law meant to empower Indians and bring transparency in governance appeared to be losing steam with the number of queries going down mainly because of stone-walling of information by officials and slow disposal of...
More »One year on, revised RTI rules yet to be approved -Rumu Banerjee
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Almost a year after it came out with draft RTI Rules 2017, the government seems to have put them in cold storage. There has been criticism the new rules failed to address recurrent issues like non-compliance of CIC orders and also gave more powers to the chief information commissioner leaving scope for misuse. The revised rules, which had faced resistance, from a part of the...
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