-Governance Now While folks working with the right to information (RTI) were still reeling from the supreme court judgment on the appointment of information commissioners in the Namit Sharma case, came the prime minister’s speech on the seventh year celebrations of the RTI Act on October 12, again raising the sceptre of “frivolous and vexatious” use of the law. The RTI Act now seems to be suffering from what might be called a double whammy,...
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Sleep on RTI queries, babus tell juniors -Christin Mathew Philip
-The Times of India CHENNAI: Seeking and giving information under Right to Information Act has been a cat-and-mouse game for citizens and officials since the legislation came into effect in October, 2005. Now, senior bureaucrats are giving crash courses to public information officers (PIOs) on how to delay or deny information to applicants. At informal sessions, officers coach PIOs - responsible for giving information under the act - how to redirect queries...
More »Chhattisgarh govt pays for all TV news that is fit to buy-Ashutosh Bhardwaj
-The Indian Express Raipur: In May 2010, Hindi TV channel Sahara Samay presented a five-point proposal to the public relations department of the Chhattisgarh government about covering government activities during 2010-11: 1. Two-minute special package: Sahara Samay will show the package 15 times a day during news bulletins. It will contain “CM’s speeches, government policies, and special news related to various departments.” Cost: Rs 3.28 crore per year at Rs 3,000 per...
More »Malaysia bigwig stalling Aircel-Maxis case probe, CBI tells Supreme Court -J Venkatesan
-The Hindu ‘Though bound by legal assistance treaty, Malaysia is holding out on information’ The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that a politically and economically powerful person in Malaysia was stalling the probe into the foreign angle in the Aircel-Maxis case involving the former Union Minister, Dayanidhi Maran, and others. Senior counsel K.K. Venugopal, appearing for the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate, told a Bench of Justices G.S....
More »Don't kill the RTI -Ajit Prakash Shah
-The Times of India Unjustified judicial intervention could compromise the good the right to information is doing Perhaps the biggest contribution of our Parliament towards promoting greater accountability in independent India is the enactment of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005. If, as they say, information is power, then the RTI Act has been a veritable 'Brahmastra' in the hands of the Indian public. It has been extremely successful in...
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