-The Hindu Reply to rti appeal points to massive corruption in railways food procurement Mumbai: A recent application filed as a second appeal under the Right to Information (rti) Act by an activist has revealed that the Central Railway's catering department purchased certain food items to stock their warehouses at several times the maximum retail price. After railway authorities failed to share information on purchase of food items sought in his rti application,...
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Whistleblowers at risk? Activists protest as govt prepares to notify new rti rules -Chetan Chauhan
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The government is all set to notify a new set of Right to Information rules that will allow appeals to be withdrawn and, according to activists, put the lives of whistleblowers in danger. The government is all set to notify a new set of Right to Information (rti) rules that will allow appeals to be withdrawn and, according to activists, put the lives of whistleblowers in danger. The Central...
More »How Dalit lands were stolen -Ilangovan Rajasekaran
-Frontline.in The British government, on the basis of an 1891 report on the subhuman living conditions of “Pariahs” by James H.A. Tremenheere, Acting Collector of Chengleput, assigned 12 lakh acres of land for distribution to the “depressed classes” of the Madras Presidency to empower them socially and economically. But more than 100 years later, much of this land is in the possession of non-Dalits, and the struggle to reclaim them has...
More »No coordination between blood banks and hospitals, 6 lakh litres of blood wasted in five years -Sumitra Debroy
-The Times of India MUMBAI: In the last five years, over 28 lakh units of blood and its components were discarded by banks across India, exposing serious loopholes in the nation's blood banking system. If calculated in litres, the cumulative wastage of 6% translates to over 6 lakh litres —a volume enough to fill up 53 water tankers. India faces, on average, a shortfall of 3 million units of blood annually. Lack of...
More »Information from Government -Anjali Bhardwaj and Amrita Johri
-TheWire.in The proposed amendments not only make approaching the information commission more cumbersome and legalistic but also defy the diktat of the Supreme Court. The rti Act has undoubtedly been one of the most empowering legislations for Indians. According to estimates, four to six million information applications are filed every year, making the Indian rti Act the world’s most extensively used transparency legislation. National assessments have shown that a large number of...
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