The Information Commission is planning to set up Division Benches in the State for quick disposal of cases under the Right to Information Act 2005, State Information Commissioner Shekar D. Sajjan Rao told presspersons here on Tuesday. He said a proposal in this regard is already before the commission, and strategies are being chalked out for the systematic setting up of these benches. These Division Benches would function like that of...
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Mapping reveals Pune district needs another 200 schools
Pune : The state government’s exercise to map schools in the state to determine distribution as per population to make it easier to determine the number of schools and where they should be located to suit the Right to Education (RTE) Act targets has completed the second stage. As per the survey released on Monday, Pune district needs around 200 more schools as of now. There is a need of around...
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In a season when every self-styled warrior against corruption is trying to look for a new weapon to fight it, my guest today is Satyananda Mishra, Chief Information Commissioner—someone who has in his control the strongest of those weapons, the RTI. Actually when it all began, nobody thought it would be so effective. In a period of five-and-a-half years, it has touched the hearts and minds of people. The number of...
More »PPP projects out of RTI, CIC knocks on PM door
With the government serving a severe blow to transparency in the Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects worth one trillion rupees the Central Information Commission has decided to seek Prime Minister’s Manmohan Singh’s intervention. “We will be writing to the Prime Minister that there should not be a blanket ban on making RTI applicable to PPP projects,” said an Information Commissioner, following a decision at the commission’s last meeting. The CIC wanted the...
More »As UT basks in RTE ‘success’, students sit in corridors, balconies & near toilet doors by Suchet Attri
The UT Administration might be congratulating itself over its achievement of having implemented the Right to Education Act (RTE) in the city but the actual situation in schools leaves much to be desired. The lack of basic infrastructure, including seating arrangements and classrooms, is defeating the basic purpose of the Act. The Government High School, Mauli Jagran, is one such school in the city that is bursting at its seam...
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