With the aim of bringing transparency in work, Jan Mitra Nyas, a trust constituted by the NGO People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), organised its social audit at a hotel in Jagatganj area in Varanasi on Wednesday. The trust presented all its balance sheets, account bill vouchers and progress reports, before the people from areas where the trust’s projects are being run, including both representatives of these programmes and...
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rti law being grossly misused, says former CJI Balakrishnan
Former chief justice of India KG Balakrishnan on Friday said the Right To Information (rti) Act "was grossly misused" and needed amending to prevent the misuse. "It is time for introspection on the five-year-old rti Act. It is grossly misused. Most of the applicants are applying the rti not for public good, but for misuse," Balakrishnan said at a seminar on "rti-Key to good governance", organised by the Institute of Secretariat...
More »Orissa rti website bags best India eGov Award
The rti website of the State has been awarded as the best user-friendly website in the Country. A high profile event for choosing best website in the country conducted by India eGov 2.0 in New Delhi on October 28 choose States rti Central Mechanism (rti CMM) as the best user-friendly website and conferred India eGov 2.0 Awards-2010. The States rti website is now connecting as many as 1800 offices and providing...
More »Six information officers fined for delaying rti reply by Ashutosh Shukla
City-based Right to Information activist (rti) Shailesh Gandhi, in his capacity as a central information commissioner, recently passed a landmark order under the rti Act. In an order dated October 22, he fined six public information officers (PIOs) of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Rs25,000 each, the highest penalty amount allowed under the Act. The total fine comes to Rs1.5 lakh, which is the highest penalty levied for a single...
More »Another rti activist gets death threats by Melvyn Thomas
After the visually-challenged rti activist Ratna Ala, another rti crusader from Valsad, Ketan Shah has lodged a complaint stating that he has been threatened for his activism by the chief officer of Valsad nagarpalika and senior officers in the district administration. For Shah, major shock came after the nagarpalika passed a resolution — a copy is with TOI — in the general body meeting on October 19 to blacklist him and...
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