-The Huffington Post The Right to Information Act 2005 has opened up a space where people are able to ask questions of their government and bring the focus on cases of serious lapses in governance. Back in 2010 when we filed our RTI one had to go to the concerned department, find the Public Information officer (PIO) and then complete the necessary paperwork with them. At that time, we remember waiting around...
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25,000 fake Aadhaar numbers detected till August -Christin Mathew Philip
-The Times of India CHENNAI: At a time when the Centre is planning to link Aadhaar for government schemes and a large number of people are lining up for enrolment, an RTI application has revealed that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has identified more than 25,000 duplicate Aadhaar numbers in the country till August. Vinod Ranganathan of onlineRTI.com, who filed the application, said he had sought state-wise number of dubious/fake...
More »10 Years Of RTI: Maharashtra Emerges As The Most Dangerous State In India -Betwa Sharma
-Huffington Post NEW DELHI: Almost 300 cases of murder, assault and harassment relating to information activism have been recorded in the ten years since the Right To Information Act came into force on October 12, 2005, and Maharashtra has emerged as the most dangerous state for RTI Activists in the country. While there is no official data on RTI-related crime, figures complied by the Delhi-based Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative found 230 cases...
More »PM Narendra Modi to skip RTI Act’s 10th anniversary conclave
-The Indian Express Every year since 2006, barring 2010, the PM or the President have addressed the convention’s inaugural or valedictory function on various issues related to Act. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not attend the Central Information Commission’s annual convention on the Right to Information Act, which completed 10 years on Monday. While Chief Information Commissioner Vijay Sharma could not be contacted, another Information Commissioner told The Indian Express that the...
More »Textiles Ministry alleges large-scale import of cheap jute bags -Devesh K Pandey
-The Hindu Cheap imported bags are sold as Indian to government agencies for a higher procurement price. The Union Textiles Ministry has unearthed a major racket in large-scale import of cheap jute bags from Nepal and Bangladesh by Indian manufacturers, many of whom were supplying these to government agencies after putting their own seals. The Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act, 1987, mandates that jute bags supplied to government agencies...
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