RIGHT TO INFORMATION


It is time to recruit Information Commissioners once again; and this time, let the vacancies not be filled with former bureaucrats, which according to the “India Rapid Study by Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in July 2014” account for 69% of Information Commissioners appointed, across...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 September 2016
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), India's largest private sector company owes a whopping Rs1,576.90 crore as additional premium charges to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) as a lease-holder of two plots at the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai, reveals a reply received...

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Despite the historic 2011 judgment of the Supreme Court, where procuring copies of answer sheets by students came under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) continued to defy it. In a reply to a RTI query, posed by Whistle for Public Interest...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 September 2016
In what may be called as a shocking revelation, Mumbai-based Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy School of Art, the oldest art institution in the city, is functioning with just about 25% of sanctioned strength of teachers. According to information procured by Anil Galgali under the Right to Information...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 August 2016
The BrihanMumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking, which is civic transport and electricity provider public body based in Mumbai, has suffered a massive loss of Rs905.3 crore on transportation services during FY2015-16 reveals a reply received under the Right to Information...

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Believe it or not, the Maharashtra State Road Development Corp (MSRDC) actually states in black and white that it is conducting transaction surveys to finalise the foreclosure of concessionaire claims. So, for 10 years they collected toll with no cash flow statements.   Last week, we...

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In a strange move, the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), has once again invited online tenders for videographic traffic count survey for all five entry points to Mumbai (when such a survey was done a year ago); for the Peth-Sangli-Miraj-Mhaisal state highway (the toll...

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That, government salaries quite match those in the corporate world, has been aptly proven with Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking the bold step of pro-active disclosures, under Section 4 of the Right to Information (RTI) Act by public authorities, on the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO)...

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In a powerful verdict, a Divisional Bench of Central Information Commissioners, Sharat Sabharwal and Sudhir Bhargava ordered Union Bank of India (UBI) to pro-actively disclose its mix business on a quarterly basis. The Bench at the Central Information Commission (CIC) also observed that daily...

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IANS 02 August 2016
It is not just the opposition which is out to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi's emotive connect with the river Ganga. Statistics show that very little has been done in the past two years -- in spite of spending Rs 1,958 crore of the Rs 3,703 crore allocated -- to improve the condition...

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If financial irregularities, chikki and land scams are not enough, did you know that a concocted, counterfeit GR (government resolution) is also being used to greedily eat up public funds, in the name of public service? Moreover, it is a strange case of fake GR made by Mantralaya and...

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Against the backdrop of Maharashtra State Chief Information Commissioner, Ratnakar Gaikwad having ‘illegally’ issued transfer orders of information commissioners in 2012 and 2014 and the state government not questioning it, the Bombay High Court has now asked as to “just who is empowered to...

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The Supreme Court, as recently as 2015, stated that, lottery is considered as a ‘pernicious vice’ and that lottery that has become epidemic in nature, ‘infests the whole community; it enters every dwelling; it reaches every class; it preys upon hard earnings of the poor; it plunders the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 June 2016
About 32 stations, out of 160 on the Delhi Metro did not have no objection certificate (NOC) continuously over the past five years, from the fire department, reveals a reply received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.   Gurgaon-based RTI activist Sudhir Yadav had filed the RTI...

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While the Rs.3,500 crore Augusta Westland scandal is grabbing the headlines on and off since 2013, on Tuesday, Central Information Commissioner Divya Prakash Sinha, has given a people-friendly verdict, by directing the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to supply partial information to the second...

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 India's first monorail here become an unviable venture notching a loss of Rs.159 crore (Rs.1.59 billion) in the past 26 months, besides a cost escalation of Rs.220 crore since the project was conceptualised, an RTI query has revealed on Friday.   According to the Mumbai Metropolitan...

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The lesson in the 8th standard text book on Social Sciences of Rajasthan State Board schools was titled `Kanuno ki samajh’ (knowledge of Laws) and the lesson was about the citizens’ historic movement to bring in the Right to Information (RTI) legislation in Rajasthan. Led by Aruna Roy, the...

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A Committee appointed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has found out that the Right to Information (RTI) Act is one of the factors behind the poor performance of public sector banks (PSBs) compared with private sector banks! The Committee to Review Governance of Boards of Banks in India...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 May 2016
The Maharashtra Chief Minister's Office (CMO) has two employees working but instead of the CMO, they are being paid salaries by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), reveals a reply received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.   According to information...

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RTI is exposing their arrogance and hence they try to discredit the Act by often talking about its misuse. If RTI Act is muzzled, soon we may have to provide reasons even for speaking. We must defend our democracy   There is a very disturbing news reports about the entire political...

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