-PTI Panaji: Goa RTI Forum today claimed in a police complaint that the nephew of a BJP MLA was among those who masterminded the alleged attack on RTI activists by a mob 10 days ago. “From the photographs put up on various Goa Forums, on the social networking site as also from reports in the local newspapers, the agitation seemed to be led by the nephew of sitting MLA Subhash Faldesai, who...
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Activists call for support to grievances redress bill-Smita Gupta
-The Hindu NCPRI urges government and Opposition to pass the bill for time-bound services to citizens The Right of Citizens for Time-Bound Delivery of Goods and Services and Redressal of their Grievances Bill, 2011, will not violate the spirit of federalism, civil society groups said here on Saturday, urging Opposition parties to help the government pass it swiftly. The existing Public Services Guarantee Acts in some States, they said, did not have as...
More »UIDAI mum on Aadhaar cards for Prime Minister, Sonia
-The Times of India HYDERABAD: A recent RTI query to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) for information on whether India's 'top brass' possessed Aadhaar cards, has come back without any response. The RTI query was filed by city activist Rakesh Reddy. While Reddy, under the Act, demanded to know if Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani, deputy chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia...
More »RTI to go online this month, govt to launch epostal orders -Aloke Tikku
-The Hindustan Times Your right to information is taking a big leap, into cyberspace. The government will launch two web portals this month to enable citizens to file their information requests and receive responses over the web. The move will coincide with the department of posts launching an electronic version of postal orders, giving Indians abroad the option to pay for the information using postal orders. The e-postal order would initially...
More »Probe sought into CoP expenses
-The Hindu Activists allege needless spending Hyderabad: Members of United Forum for RTI (UFRTI) and Its Time to Make a Difference (ITMD) on Sunday demanded a high-level probe into the way the funds of Conference of Parties (CoP 11), the biodiversity meet hosted by the capital last year, were utilised. The members, while addressing presspersons, alleged that “unnecessary expenditure” was taken up by departments, including the police, GHMC, HMDA, APIIC, National Green Corps...
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