RIGHT TO INFORMATION


In a major boost to citizens and activists, a Committee set up by DoPT has recommended that there is no provision in the RTI Act or Rules to make any standard format for applications and so it should be done away with   Many Right to Information (RTI) applicants in Maharashtra and...

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Moneylife’s sustained campaign for a year has saved Pune’s SOS Balgram from closure   It will be a happy celebration for Save Our Soul (SOS) Children’s Village (SOS Balgram) in Pune, on its anniversary day on 7th November. The Principal Secretary of the Women and Child Welfare...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 October 2014
The CIC has ordered disclosure of information on the action taken against Dikshit and Chauhan for overruling their officers for their photo-publicity and self-glorification through loan-application-forms for Dilli Swarojgar Yojna   The Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed...

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According to a study, nearly 49% of  RTI applications are about information that ought to be available in the public domain as mandated under Section 4 of the RTI Act and another 18% are about information that should routinely be provided to citizens   It has been nine years since the...

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While the post of Chief Information Commissioner under RTI lies vacant, 553 applicants, including bureaucrats, government officials, retired defence personnel and citizens are eying to grab one of the three new posts of Information Commissioner   Despite the Narendra Modi-led...

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NATGRID, born after 26/11 terror attack to centralise databases of several intelligence agencies, is out of the ambit of the RTI Act. Now that it will execute contracts and acquire property with taxpayer’s money, shouldn’t it come under RTI?    National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID)...

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Girish Mittal 26 September 2014
The HC dismissed the CPIO's petition at the admission stage itself against CIC's decision to impose a penalty of Rs25,000. This ruling is important because several times, public authorities have been found approaching courts at the drop of hat and at the cost of the tax payer   In a...

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The portal of Central Information Commission which ought to be full of information, is dull, irrelevant and useless! Find out why   Honestly, the worst part of the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2005 is not the misuse of the Act, as most public information officers (PIOs) would have...

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A copy of the CBI closure report in the Satish Shetty murder case reveals scandalous information on officials of IRB offering money and threatening with dire sequences the RTI activist over the company’s land deals in Lonavala. Presently, the CBI has let all the accused off the...

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Frivolous RTI applications help nobody, but they aren't as big a problem as they are made out to be   Last week, Congress spokesperson Tehsin Poonawala, asked under the RTI, “whether Achche Din have indeed arrived?” The reply he promptly got from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) was,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 August 2014
The appellant received two sets of different names as coach and manager who had gone with the Indian wrestling team to the Beijing Olympics. This is the 206th in a series of important RTI judgements given by former Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi   The Central...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 August 2014
The Appellant does not have to show any public interest in disclosure of the information unless an exemption under Section 8(1) of the RTI Act applies to the information, the CIC ruled. This is the 205th in a series of important RTI judgements given by former Central Information Commissioner...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 July 2014
The CIC noted that citizens were exposed to complete substandard and unqualified doctors due to callous attitude of Delhi Bharatiya Chikitsa Parishad. This is the 204th in a series of important RTI judgements given by former Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi   The...

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The Central Information Commissioner’s order opens up the case for transparency in the operations of public transport in India   The Delhi Metro has been suffering 'technical snags' regularly. The recent one was absolutely scary because the doors of a coach remained open for a few...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 July 2014
The CIC directed the PIO to provide information of the mammoth probe into a bogus LTC case that was going on for over 11 years. This is the 203rd in a series of important RTI judgements given by former Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi   The Central Information...

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While Information Commissioner Ravindra Jadhav entrenches himself as Pune division’s IC, it is important to understand why appointments in Maharashtra are different from any other state in India Information Commissioner (IC) Ravindra Jadhav holds the Pune division post as of Monday. The...

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A State CIC has no powers to even sanction a 'casual leave' of any Information commissioner. However, Maharashtra SCIC Ratnakar Gaikwad issued a transfer order to make Rajendra Jadhav, full time IC of Pune. Jadhav was the secretary to former president Pratibha Patil Rajendra Jadhav was...

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Maharashtra Chief Information Commissioner and Pune’s Divisional Commissioner manipulated words in official orders, so that former President Pratibha Patil’s secretary and now State Information Commissioner from Amravati, Rajendra Jadhav, could be gifted an official bungalow in Pune, the...

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Could clear loudspeaker warnings, prominent caution signs or vigilance about the tour itinerary have averted the tragic death of 24 students in the Beas River? Here is an RTI guideline for parents to procure more information into such deaths With every passing day since 9th June, when 24...

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In what could be termed as new hope for complete transparency in Public-Private-Partnership projects, the National Highway Authority started uploading on its website www.nhai.org.in contents defined by the task force under Section 4 of RTI Act Moneylife, has been campaigning for...

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