The Central Information Commission has ordered the Command Hospital to allow RTI applicant Kannan Nambiar to inspect certain records for as many as six hours. Chief Election Commissioner M L Sharma, who issued the directive last week, rejected the contentions of the Command Hospital for denying information to Nambiar under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Nambiar, a medical vendor, had shot in to limelight in December 2010 when on his...
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Widespread Endorsement of NCPRI Grievance Redress Bill by Political Parties and Citizen Groups
-Righttoinformation.info The NCPRI, in collaboration with Satark Nagrik Sangathan (SNS), JOSH, Pardarshita and National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW)organised camps for public consultations and registering grievances in Delhi. Two days camps on the 15th and 16th of December were held in Malviya Nagar, Trilokpuri, Nandnagri and Takiyan Kalekhan. The camps concluded in an Open Forum with representatives from political parties and citizen groups to discuss the essential features of a Grievance...
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Greedy lawyers and lack of awareness condemn women undertrials twice over Kanimozhis All? Total number of male and female convicts in India: 1,23,941; Number of undertrials: 2,50,204 Number of female prisoners: 15,406; Female undertrials: 10,687 Female prisoners compromise 4.1 per cent of the prison population 469 women convicts with their 556 children and 1,196 undertrials with their 1,314 children are in prisons across the country Official capacity of prisons in...
More »457 appeals disposed of during special RTI event by Prajakta Chavan
The chief state information commission (CSIC) is likely to conduct more ‘Special Appeal Disposal Programme’ after disposing of more than 450 of the 607 Right To Information (RTI) appeals in just four days. Chief state information commissioner Vijay Kuvalekar had organised the programme, which was conducted at the Podar Medical College (Ayurved), Worli, over a four-day period. The event aimed at disposing of piled up RTI applications at CSIC since 2008. Nearly...
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-DNA The first day of the mass clearing programme of RTI applications piled up at the state information commission (SIC) was a grand success, with 53 of the 63 appellants (81%) making it for the hearing on Tuesday. The commission hopes to hear nearly 600 Second Appeals in the four-day ‘special appeal disposal programme’ kicked off at the Poddar Medical College on Dr Annie Besant Road at Worli. Acting state chief information commissioner...
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