The contentious revised Sports Development Bill has got a fresh thrust with the Aruna Roy-led civil society group, the National Campaign for Peoples' Right to Information (NCPRI), throwing its weight behind the move to bring about transparency and accountability in the running of sports in the country. The NCPRI statement signed by Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan along with others like Ms. Roy, Nikhil Dey, Shekhar Singh and Anjali Bharadwaj has...
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Governor must disclose under RTI his Article 356 report to President: HC by Dhananjay Mahapatra
The Goa bench of Bombay High Court stretched the RTI Act's ambit to the maximum when it ruled that a governor's report to the Centre about the political situation in a state could not be kept under wraps and ordered its disclosure upon an application under the transparency law. This has sent shock waves in the power corridors as the Union Cabinet headed by the prime minister relies on the secret...
More »Lokpal to help RTI: CIC
-The Times of India If the proposed Lokpal will cure administration, RTI will help it. Hence both were complimentary to each other, said Satyanand Mishra, chief information commissioner (CIC), government of India. The government wants that the corporate houses should also abide by the Right to Information (RTI) Act, falling on then lines of the government offices. Mishra said that India Inc will also have to accept transparency and for this they can...
More »LS Speaker Meira Kumar asked to pay Rs 1.98cr as house rent
-The Times of India The urban development ministry has asked Speaker Meira Kumar to pay Rs 1.98 crore for occupation of 6, Krishna Menon Marg. In response to an RTI query, the estates department said Kumar had occupied the bungalow since 1986 after the demise of her father Jagjivan Ram. The department gave a list of 10 people, including "family members of late Indrani Devi, that is, Smt Mira Kumar (sic)", and...
More »Bringing companies under RTI is not good idea: Infosys
-The Economic Times Leading IT company Infosys today disapproved the idea of bringing corporates under the ambit of the Right to Information Act by saying that they were already accountable to several regulators in the country. "We are reluctant (that) we should be included (under the Right To Information)," Infosys Executive Co Chairman S Gopalakrishnan said at a CII even here. He was responding to a query on whether the Indian corporates should...
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