Purpose of RTI Act will be lost if killings continue, says CPI(M) member The murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood in Bhopal found an echo in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday with a Communist Party of India (Marxist) member expressing serious concern over the killings across the country and demanding steps to protect whistleblowers. Raising the issue during the Zero Hour, Moin-ul-Hassan said the RTI activist was killed on a day when...
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Online RTI courts on the anvil by Ajit Nayak
SAMBALPUR: In an attempt towards speedy disposal of RTI Act cases, the state RTI commission has decided to hold online courts. The commission hopes such courts will not only help it to listen to grievances from people located at distant places but will also help the commission to save time by doing away with the practice of moving from place to place to hold camp courts. "It is hoped the implementation...
More »Parties back Anna's right to dissent, but reject his main demand by Neena Vyas
The government, no doubt, has been rightly accused of mishandling the Anna Hazare protest and, worse, of misjudging the public mood. But it is equally true that even the worst critics of the government in Parliament want nothing to do with the central demand of Team Anna: Parliament must consider their ‘Jan Lokpal Bill.' After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement on the emotive subject of Mr. Hazare's arrest — and the...
More »The Anna monopoly by Sanjay K Jha
Sections within civil society have reservations about Anna Hazare’s movement but the government’s failure to tap them may have lent credence to the impression that his group was speaking up for the entire nation. Although leaders like P. Chidambaram and Kapil Sibal have argued that no single group could claim to be the sole representative of civil society, the Centre has not seriously tried to open channels of communication with other...
More »South Asian human rights forum condemns Hazare arrest
-IANS South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) has condemned the arrest of social activist Anna Hazare and others before they launched their agitation for an effective Lokpal bill as "ultra vires" of the Indian constitution. SAHR chairperson Hina Jilani of Pakistan said in a statement that in a democracy all citizens have a right to protest peacefully and the government must uphold the citizens' fundamental right of speech and expression. "This act of...
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