The Supreme Court has refused to answer several queries filed under the right to information law on whether judges of the top court conversant with the affairs of Karnataka High Court had been consulted by the Chief Justice of India before a decision was taken to elevate Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran to the apex court. The collegium, headed by the Chief Justice of India, had recommended Dinakaran’s name to the...
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In Bihar, death for rti activist who knew too much by Shoumojit Banerjee
When the government passed the Right to Information (rti) Act in 2005, it should have added a statutory warning: exercising this right may be extremely injurious to health. Shashidhar Mishra of Begusarai, who was murdered by unknown assailants last Sunday, is the second rti activist to be killed in a month for perhaps knowing too much. Attacks on rti activists have emerged as a disturbing trend of late, especially in...
More »Mum’s The Word by Saikat Datta
The Centre plans to manacle the rti Act When the UPA passed the landmark Right to Information Act in 2005, it was meant to empower citizens. The law promised transparency, accountability, and the end of corruption in governance. But in under five years, the government is planning to push through amendments that will dilute the law. Ironically, the amendments are being pushed through in a totally opaque manner. There has been...
More »Plan panel withdraws rti against Highways Ministry by Dipak Kumar Dash
In an unprecedented move, which could lead to simmering down the tension between the highways ministry and the Planning Commission, the principal adviser (infrastructure) in the planning panel Gajendra Haldea has withdrawn an rti application seeking status of highway projects approved by Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC). The retired bureaucrat and a member of the PPPAC had filed the application before director (rti) asking for status of NHAI projects...
More »Manmohan’s photo cannot be used without PMO’s approval by Sandeep Joshi
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has thrown a spanner in the works of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which planned to put up huge hoardings of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s photographs along all national highways. Going a step further, it directed all Central ministries and departments not use the Prime Minister’s photographs without prior approval. “Photograph of the Prime Minister cannot be used by any Ministry /Department without...
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