RIGHT TO INFORMATION


Moneylife Digital Team 14 September 2017
The insurance industry have settled over 86% of health insurance claims, worth Rs21,758.90 crore during FY2015-16. At the same time, claims worth Rs4,545.8 crore have been rejected. How do you ensure that you are not among those whose claim is rejected? There are several reasons for claim...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan has now percolated from the streets of India to the government buildings as Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) issued an order on 10 July 2017 to chalk out a calendar of Swachhta related activities with ‘measurable indicators’ for...

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He senselessly tweeted, about the 29th August Mumbai flooding -      If Superstar Amitabh Bachchan was stranded in his car during the Mumbai floods, for sure he would have been rescued on top priority. Fair enough. But why appease the civic authorities or state government by...

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Remember the video that went viral in April this year, of a youth tied to a army pilot vehicle? He was being driven around by security forces during counter-insurgency operations at Budgaum in Jammu & Kashmir? (Here is the link: the video of a youth tied to a pilot vehicle). The Ministry of...

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Misuse of Armed Forces Flag Day Fund, money for which is annually collected from civilians for the benefit of widows of soldiers, of disabled soldiers, sailors, airmen, ex-servicemen and their dependents, as confirmed by the audit report, has apparently resulted in profiteering for vested...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 August 2017
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis while announcing loan waiver scheme for farmers had said that there were 813 beneficiaries from Mumbai. However, the state government has no record of any such farmer covered under the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Farmers’ Welfare Scheme in Mumbai...

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Just like any other country that has implemented the Right to Information law, Australia too has not hesitated to keep secret, information of vital public interest. Information sought under Australia’s RTI, pertaining to the copy of the ‘agreement’ between Gautam Adani’s company regarding the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 August 2017
Both the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) or BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) spent money on repairs of the same toilet blocks in the city, reveals a reply received under the Right to Information (RTI)...

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Umesh Mohurle, an employee of the postal department in Gondia, near Nagpur, who allegedly committed fraud to the tune of Rs1 crore and is accused of tampering with official information, is under investigation. A complaint has been filed with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). This...

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Sexual harassment and crimes against women continue to dent our country’s image, but what does one say when the National Women’s Commission’s itself is accused of indifference to a woman staffer’s petition alleging sexual harassment by Deputy Secretary VVB Raju? Worse, the accused is the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 July 2017
The Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) was created to rehabilitate slum-dwellers in Mumbai and make the city slum-free. However, almost 80% of the officers and staff at SRA are non-governmental and work on contract basis, reveals a reply received under the Right to Information (RTI)...

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Sidhartha Dutta (IANS) 03 July 2017
In six out of eight northeastern states, the Modi government failed to provide even a single LPG connection under its flagship scheme Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY).   The Yojana is an initiative on whose success the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rode to power in Uttar Pradesh,...

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I regularly receive emails seeking advice on filing RTI for procuring copies of answer sheets. Recently, a student wrote, “I am a student of Guwahati University, Assam. I am doing 5 years B.A. L.L.B. Hons. and I am in the 10th semester, that is the final semester.    “The problem is...

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While the nation mourned India’s defeat in the Indo-Pak Champions Trophy Finals at Oval Ground in London, the Central Information Commission (CIC) on 16th June as well as on 9th June 2017, questioned the opaqueness of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in not revealing...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 June 2017
A Munsif Magistrate Court at Kishangarh in Rajasthan convicted senior activist Nikhil Dey, Naurtibai, Ram Karan, Babulal and Chotu Lal Malakar, who are fighting corruption using the Right to Information (RTI) Act. All the activists are associated with Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 June 2017
It has become a routine now for Mumbai University to delay declaration of results of the examinations conducted by it for its various courses. In 2016, for the first semester almost 30% of the results declared were beyond the maximum stipulation of 45 days. For the second semester, the ratio...

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Can a Central Information Commissioner impose a penalty as per his whims and fancies? Early this week, the Delhi High Court slapped a show cause notice on the Central Information Commission (CIC), seeking an explanation for arbitrarily imposing a Rs5,000 penalty on a Public Information...

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The prime objective of the Right to Information (RTI) Act is to bring in transparency and thereby root out corruption. However, the Maharashtra State Information Commission office at Nashik has the dubious distinction of its desk officer seeking a bribe of Rs15,000 to dispose of an appeal in...

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Neither lodging a first information report (FIR) with the police nor denying information to a citizen under Right to Information Act (RTI) under the pretext of a missing file is acceptable. Last week’s order by the Central Information Commission (CIC) puts the onus further on the Public...

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While pulling up the Indian Air Force (IAF) for lack of accountability, the Central Information Commission (CIC) had dismissed a record 1,282 second appeals filed by an applicant under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. A former Air Force officer Wing Commander, Sanjeev Sharma, filed second...

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