There are a whopping 6,88,751 "registered" sex workers in the country and it's not mandatory for them to have a health certificate on sexually transmitted diseases. Put together, these two pieces of information -- revealed by the government in an rti reply -- should send the alarm bells ringing as unprotected paid sex is the main driver of the HIV epidemic in India. The reply by the ministry of health...
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India's first rti library named after Prakash Kardaley
Pune has become the first municipal corporation in India to have a Right to Information (rti) library. Magsaysay award winner Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated the library that is named after Prakash Kardaley, a journalist from the city, who had a major role in the drafting of the Right to Information Act. Calling Kardaley a guiding force in the rti movement, Mr. Kejriwal said that it was only apt that the Pune Municipal...
More »Rupees 69L to muzzle whistleblower by Manoj Mitta
The lengths to which a government body can go to harass a whistleblower is evident from an rti reply that discloses it paid Rs 69.24 lakh in lawyers' fees over an 18-month period and the bulk of the money went to Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi. Responding to whistleblower Abhijit Ghosh, Central Bank of India disclosed on July 1 that it had spent the money on lawyers from October 2008...
More »Rural masses in state more aware about rti: CIC by Kshitiz Gaur
Chief information commissioner (CIC) Wajahat Habibullah on Sunday said rural people in Rajasthan are more aware about the Right to Information (rti) Act. rti is the only tool which compels politicians as well as bureaucrats to maintain transparency in their functioning. Habibullah was speaking at a seminar on How rti is Useful To Eradicate Corruption from Politics organised by Citizen Council and PUCL. "The whole world is looking towards our...
More »rti reveals three-year delay in printing of ration cards
Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi has pulled up the Delhi Government's Food and Supplies Department for a “distressing state of affairs where ration cards are not being printed for three years by a vendor''. Mr. Gandhi made the observation while disposing of an appeal by a resident of a slum cluster in Delhi who had filed a Right to Information application with the Department on not getting a ration card even three...
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