To celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Right to Information (rti) Act, 2005, the Ahmedabad-based Mahiti Adhikar Gujarat Pahel (MAGP) has announced its plans to pioneer an effort to protect rti applicants against any perceived or real threat. The MAGP helplines: +919924085000 and 07926821553 (fax) will now take details of the applications, nature of threats, and addresses from such applicants and forward them, along with a complaint, to the concerned police...

rti activists from Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad  have urged state governor K Sankaranarayanan to issue directions to the state information commission to update information on its official website. In a letter to the governor, the activists have pointed out that it is mandatory for all government and semi-government offices to voluntarily provide information of the office under section 4 of the rti Act. "However, information about the commission's address, telephone numbers and...

“Has the Right to Information (rti) Act served its purpose? Well, the answer is that it has not done what it should have,” said former judge of the Bombay high court, justice Hosbet Suresh, speaking at a function to celebrate five years of the rti Act. Other speakers included Julio Ribeiro, and now retired state chief information commissioner Dr Suresh Joshi. The celebration took place at the Indian Merchant Chambers (IMC) and...

The APIC has introduced several innovative measures including 'File Tracking System', Status of Appeal through SMS, Video-Conferencing facility through which it could hear appeals and dispose of cases from across the state, Hussain said. Special Chief Secretary (General Administration Department) Minnie Mathew said the government has already directed the District Collectors and Superintendents of Police in the state to look into the cases of harassment of rti activists, if any....

‘This could be one of the major reasons for dengue cases in Capital' No single coordinating authority exists between the Delhi Government and the various civic agencies in the city to ensure that the preventive efforts taken to contain dengue, malaria and other seasonal diseases are put on a common platform and synchronised. “This lack of coordination between the agencies could have been one of the major reasons for the large number...