RIGHT TO INFORMATION


IANS 07 December 2017
As many as 36 out of the 61 buildings of the University of Mumbai at its Kalina Campus are in regular use without the mandatory "Occupation Certificate" (OC) issued by the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation, rendering them technically illegal, an RTI reply has revealed.   The Kalina...

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Shrikrishna Kachave 30 November 2017
The Municipal Corp of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) had dismantled the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) set up to bring transparency reform, especially in terms of implementation of Right to Information (RTI) Act. What is more shocking is the MCGM did not even have shown a courtesy to inform this...

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Krishna Gupta 30 November 2017
A municipal clinic and a maternity home, that were promised to the Mira Bhaindar municipal corporation (MBMC) as a condition for development of a reserved space appears to have been usurped by those close the city Mayor. The company concerned is Seven Eleven Construction Pvt Ltd was granted...

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Shrikrishna Kachave 25 November 2017
In a strange incident, the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) of Life Insurance Corp of India (LIC) had asked an applicant to pay additional fee of Rs10 for an application forwarded by another public authority under Right to Information (RTI) Act. As per RTI Act, the applicant is not...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 November 2017
The Maharashtra government has allocated Rs10 crore per year for alleviation of malnutrition in children, however the state has not spent a single paisa from this over the past two years, reveals a reply received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. In fact, during FY2015-16, there was...

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Shrikrishna Kachave 16 November 2017
The next time you are accused of speeding, when you believe you are within the rules, you could well be right - no matter what the reading on the speed guns used by the traffic police to catch you and impose a fine.  When Delhi-based Savyasachi Marwaha was intercepted and fined for...

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Shrikrishna Kachave 15 November 2017
The Maharashtra Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) boasts of achieving digital governance to transform the state while bringing in transparency and making the authorities accountable to citizens. But is it really so? Because what Shailesh Gandhi, former Central Information Commissioner (CIC) found...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 November 2017
Probably for the first time, a Right to Information (RTI) activist has used the Section 2(j) of the RTI Act to conduct a physical inspection of a public premise. The premises in question was that of the 100-bed Pandit Bhimsen Joshi (Temba) Hospital, a new facility run by the Mira Bhaindar...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 November 2017
Probably for the first time, a Right to Information (RTI) activist has used the Section 2(j) of the RTI Act to conduct a physical inspection of a public premise. The premises in question was that of the 100-bed Pandit Bhimsen Joshi (Temba) Hospital, a new facility run by the Mira Bhaindar...

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Creating awareness about the Right to Information (RTI) Act is one of the mandates of the government as per the law that was enacted 12 years ago. However, it is thanks to dedicated RTI activists that people know more about the Act; the government, on the other hand, would prefer to bury or...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 October 2017
As the Narendra Modi government proceeds with the grandiose plans for a Bullet Train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, a RTI query has revealed that over 40 percent of seats on all the trains on this sector go vacant causing huge losses to Western Railway.   According to RTI replies...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 October 2017
After several months and innumerable complaints, the Pune Police has finally registered a first information report (FIR) against Deepak Sakharam (DS) Kulkarni, and his wife Hemanti, under the Maharashtra Protection of Investors and Depositors Act (MPID). One of the investors, Jitendra...

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Shashank Manilawala 26 October 2017
While maintaining that it has not issued any licence or authorisation to any company to trade in virtual currencies like Bitcoin, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has no information about entities dealing in illegal trading, investing and exchange of virtual currencies, reveals a reply...

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The Transparency Report recently brought out by Transparency International India (TII) on the Right to Information Act (RTI), since its implementation in October 2005, clearly shows that Maharashtra is ahead of all other states. The state had received nearly 55 lakh (to be precise, a total of...

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Early this week, social reformer Anna Hazare sent a stern letter to Prime Minster Narendra Modi for non-implementation of the Lokpal at the centre and Lokayuktas in the states. The letter also criticised the PM for hurriedly bringing in amendments in the Finance Act of 2016 under the garb of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 October 2017
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), instead of recovering its dues from big defaulters is just issuing notices, alleges right to information activist Anil Galgali. The reply received by Mr Galgali under the RTI Act shows, several lease holders, including Reliance...

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The Central Information Commission, while disposing off the second appeal against First Appellate Authority (FAA) of the National Commission for Women (NCW), has warned NCW to refrain from being anti-right to Information. NCW’s Deputy Secretary VVB Raju and FAA have been accused of sexual...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 September 2017
The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (RERA) in Maharashtra (MahaRERA) was brought to ensure transparency and efficiency in realty deals, especially in the sale of plots, apartments, buildings or real estate project and also protect interest of consumers. However the way...

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Treating denial of information under Right to Information (RTI) Act can be termed ‘deficiency in service’ under the Consumer Protection Act, as payment of Rs10 fee makes you a client of the public authority, from whom you are seeking information. Thus, you can knock at the door of the...

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It is 12 years since the implementation of the RTI Act 2005, under which it is mandatory for every public authority to voluntarily make information public on its website as per Section 4 (a) and (b). However, it has been observed, time and again, that most public authorities do not abide by...

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