RIGHT TO INFORMATION


Moneylife Digital Team 02 February 2016
Hema Malini was allotted a land at Versova village, but her Trust was issued a notice by the Collector's office for destroying mangroves on adjoining plot, a violation of CRZ   Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s member of Parliament (MP) Hema Malini's dance academy had on previous...

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The Department of Civics & Politics of the Mumbai University has launched a Post Graduate Certificate Course in RTI which will help citizens formally empower themselves   The need for a formal educational degree in RTI Act was an idea spun off at the 2015 National Right to Information...

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IANS 09 January 2016
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to appoint three information commissioners, within six weeks, from among the applicants who responded to two advertisements issued in 2014 and a notification issued on September 9, 2015.   Giving six weeks time as sought by...

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The Report of Justice Lodha Panel on cricket reforms, which was made public, last week, has recommended the Board of Cricket Control of India -BCCI to come under RTI. Here are the reasons   Besides a string of recommendations, to the Supreme Court, for cricket reforms in India, the...

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The Maharashtra Government has issued a notification last fortnight to follow clear norms for giving RTI replies. This follows DoPT’s general guidelines, issued in October 2015, to discipline PIOs who give evasive replies to RTI queries   Public Information Officers (PIOs) in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 December 2015
People can now cite the Supreme Court order and Central Information Commission (CIC) orders to demand information from the Reserve Bank, says Shailesh Gandhi   Mumbai’s activists, NGOs, lawyers and concerned citizens cutting across diverse areas of interest and specialization met on...

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Landmark judgement will have a far-reaching impact in making other regulators also more accountable and transparent in providing information under RTI Act   As 2015 winds to a close, a landmark judgement of the Supreme Court of India (SC) has demolished the walls of India’s most...

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As an RTI activist turned Central Information Commissioner (CIC), Shailesh Gandhi was often criticised, for some of his orders as CIC. A set of 10 orders upheld by the Supreme Court recently, serve to prove that he did his work without fear or favour    The latest Supreme Court...

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Public Information Officers and Information Commissioners will now take inspiration from the Supreme Court’s landmark judgement and we will see RTI marching forward to bring better governance through transparency and participative democracy   I am very pleasantly surprised at the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 December 2015
“The RBI as a Watch Dog should have been more dedicated towards disclosing information to the general public under the Right to Information Act,” remarked the SC judges    In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said, the Reserve Bank of India cannot withhold...

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In an important decision, the CIC has asked CBSE to pay a penalty of Rs25,000 for harassment to a parent by denying information and also for taking undertakings from students who file RTI for answer sheets, which amounts to obstructing information   In a noteworthy and heartening...

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The order cites indiscipline and deliberate attempt to avoid duty. Mane has filed a 54-page appeal   Pune based Constable Jayashree Mane, began to file RTI applications vigorously after attending a workshop on RTI in 2011. She has filed over 200 RTI applications to expose fraud...

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Some recent decisions by Information Commissioner Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu mention that the President and Secretary of Co-operative Housing Societies are deemed PIOs under the RTI. The Supreme Court, however, has ruled that only cooperative societies owned, controlled or funded by the state...

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The 100th week of RTI Katta celebrated last week in Pune has empowered citizens to courageously and precisely file RTI applications   Two youngsters, studying in a Pune college (names withheld on request), had won scholarship of Rs25,000 each for their brilliant academic...

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IANS 06 November 2015
With the Central Information Commission facing a huge pendency of cases, the Delhi High Court on Friday directed the centre to finalise the selection of three central information commissioners within six weeks.   "The selection process that has already been commenced vide...

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Despite RTI activists across Maharashtra taking up the cause of last week’s shameful attack on this Latur-based activist, appealing to the Chief Minister to take action against culprits, nothing has moved.    What does one get in return of filing 78 complaints with the Zilla Parishad...

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Namdeo Sable, an undertrial prisoner in Beed Central Jail, was murdered. His wife took obtained evidence from RTI and went to the High Court, which has directed the state government to pay her compensation of Rs5 lakh with 9% interest   The power of Right to Information (RTI) is...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 October 2015
NCPRI says the National RTI convention organised by the CIC on 16th and 17th of October 2015 has become an exclusive affair, which is being restricted by the central government under frivolous ‘security’ concerns   The National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) and...

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CIC’s trick to reject second appeals and complaints on flimsy grounds to bring down pending RTI cases to 10% has been exposed   Vijai Kumar, took over as the Central Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) in June 2015. Suddenly, the pendency of complaints and second appeals in his...

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IANS 12 October 2015
Several months since his controversial appointment as the FTII chairman, BJP member and television personality Gajendra Chauhan is yet to visit his office, a RTI query revealed here on Monday.   There is a lack of clarity even on the actual date of appointment of Chauhan as the Film...

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