-The Hindu Not conducted hearings: rti reply The State commission to ensure delivery of public services has been inactive since its inception in 2015, an rti reply by the West Bengal government has revealed. The West Bengal Right to Public Service Commission has not conducted any hearing since its inception and is unable to provide any information about it through rti, an activist claimed. The rti queries were filed by Kolkata-based Biswanath Goswami. The...
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How rti Act is dying a slow death in India -Chetan Chauhan
-Hindustan Times A 6% fall between 2015-16 and 2016-17 was reported in rti applications filed with the 1,950 public authorities of the Central government, which receives maximum information applications followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka. The right to information law meant to empower Indians and bring transparency in governance appeared to be losing steam with the number of queries going down mainly because of stone-walling of information by officials and slow disposal of...
More »rti movement tells its story in Aruna's book
-Civil Society News New Delhi: People’s movements represent multiple hopes and efforts. As they stretch over time, who did what and when or how something happened or didn’t gets forgotten. Chroniclers are needed, but hard to find. If they come from within it is most likely they won’t be objective and if they are on the outside chances are that empathy and understanding will be missing. The right to information movement...
More »One year on, revised rti rules yet to be approved -Rumu Banerjee
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Almost a year after it came out with draft rti Rules 2017, the government seems to have put them in cold storage. There has been criticism the new rules failed to address recurrent issues like non-compliance of CIC orders and also gave more powers to the chief information commissioner leaving scope for misuse. The revised rules, which had faced resistance, from a part of the...
More »Years spent waiting for rti replies, petitioners claim -Shinjini Ghosh
-The Hindu New Delhi: Reena, a single mother, has been unable to acquire Scheduled Caste certificates for her children as her rti (Right to Information) application filed in 2016, still remains unanswered. “I had applied for Scheduled Caste certificates for my children but was told by the Revenue Department that the caste certificate of the father needs to be provided. In 2016, I filed the rti application seeking information on the documents...
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