-The Hindustan Times In a ruling that would be music to the ears of babus, the Supreme Court (SC) has held that a government officer’s personal details such as income-tax (I-T) returns cannot be divulged in response to a query under the Right to Information Act (RTI) unless a larger public interest was involved. Disclosure of such information would amount to unwarranted invasion of an officer’s privacy, it said. “The performance of...
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Activists protest PM’s remarks on frivolous use of RTI -Nivedita Khandekar
-The Hindustan Times Claiming that citizens would be deprived of a transparent and accountable system, activists have vehemently protested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s opinion about the ‘frivolous and vexatious” use of the RTI Act and how it can be a problem for public private partnerships (PPP). The PM’s remarks followed the Supreme Court and the Central Information Commission’s criticism of frivolous RTI applications. “The RTI Act has been used and owned by the...
More »Account for rural suicides -Inderjit Singh Jaijee
-The Hindustan Times There is concern again about missing persons and bodies found in canals in Haryana. Surfacing of such bodies in Punjab’s canals has figured in media reports for years. But neither Punjab nor Haryana police take interest in retrieving the bodies, as the recovery involves reporting it, then attempting to identify it and locating the kin, cremation and maintenance of a record. Pushing bodies downstream eliminates all this bother. But...
More »Rs 4,000cr aid likely for fight against JE -Chetan Chauhan
-The Hindustan Times The central government will provide financial assistance to states to fight Japanese Encephalitis, which has already claimed close to 1,000 lives, including 400 in western Uttar Pradesh alone. A cabinet committee on Thursday is expected to approve Rs. 4,000-crore assistance plan, which includes Rs. 2,000 crore for providing safe drinking water and sanitation and Rs. 1,300 crore to other ministries. The plan includes funding for expanding the encephalitis...
More »20 Delhi kids go missing daily, half are trafficked -Faizan Haider
-The Hindustan Times Around 20 children go missing in Delhi every day. Around eight of them — or 40% — are never seen again, Delhi Police records show. According to police statistics, 1,153 children went missing between July 16 and September 15 this year, approximately half of them trapped by traffickers. While 688 children were found, 465 remain untraceable. Many of the victims are infants. Police said many of the children were...
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