RIGHT TO INFORMATION


Inspection of files under Section 4 of the RTI Act has revealed that the students’ strike may have more to do with deep corruption and financial irregularities in FTII than with the appointment of a new Chairman   Of course, one does not need a Right to Information (RTI) document...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 September 2015
During 2013 to 2015, Senate members like Jitendra Awhad, Prakash Binsale, Praveen Darekar, Raj Shroff, Charan Singh Sapra and Shriram Dandekar have not even attended a single meeting, reveals a reply received under RTI   Mumbai University, one of the most prominent universities in...

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With the government mum on the report submitted by the three-member committee appointed by the I&B Ministry, and students now taking the extreme step of fast unto death, RTI activist demands transparency   The 90-day old stir of students from the Film and Television Institute of India...

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An activist, who has been fighting a lone battle to bring Mumbai International Airport under the RTI Act, continues to be stonewalled by postponements for four years    This is a classic case of how a decision by the Central Information Commission (CIC) is stonewalled by the vested...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 August 2015
Maharashtra government, which aims to set up 25 to 30 private universities across the state, has granted permission to just one degree college over the past two years, reveals reply received under RTI   While Maharashtra aims to set up 25 to 30 private universities across the...

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Anna Hazare speaks to Moneylife on why political parties are unified in opposing RTI Act being applied on them. Excerpts from the interview   Moneylife: The centre has filed an affidavit opposing the demand that political parties be brought under the ambit of the Right to...

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Replies received under RTI by Commodore Lokesh Batra (retd) reveal how the President’s Secretariat and even PMO operate like a post office, simply forwarding the petitions and letters sent by top ranking officials on One Rank One Pension (OROP)    The One Rank One Pension (OROP)...

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Sidhartha Dutta (IANS) 17 August 2015
The RTI reply revealed that the expenditure for hotel rooms and air travel was Rs.30 lakh ($46,000) each ($5,750 per head), while Rs.25 lakh was spent on taxi rides, Rs.6 lakh went for daily perks   An eight-member delegation led by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan...

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IANS 03 August 2015
Mumbai's public bus service, popularly known by its acronym BEST, is running into losses of Rs.2.26 crore per day mainly due to declining patronage and high operating costs, an RTI query revealed on Monday.   Considered the lifeline of Mumbai, BEST - with a fleet of around 2,600 buses...

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Vinita Deshmukh  and   Vijay Kumbhar 31 July 2015
Maharashtra CM Fadnavis announced a three-member committee to investigate the Chikki scam; hope it includes biscuits’ procurements too. RTI activists have made documents of the biscuit scam public even as the CM and CIC are mum on the issue of putting them up in the public domain – mandatory...

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Activists have been demanding transparency regarding the Rs200 crore scam pertaining to purchases ordered by minister Pankaja Munde but even the State Chief Information Commissioner, who has received a complaint is keeping mum   Can a six-month-old be given chikki – a hard nut based...

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The onus of organising the documents meticulously before calling applicants for file inspection would be on the PIOs   Often, Public Information Officers (PIOs) have been asking citizens to visit the office for inspection of files, at very short notice. Even for information that may...

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to all the national political parties seeking their response as to why they should not be treated as public authority for the purpose of bringing them in the ambit of the Right to Information Act.   The apex court bench headed by Chief...

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Commodore Lokesh K Batra (Retd) 09 June 2015
With number of pending cases going over 40,000 at the Central Information Commission-CIC and 15,704 Cases pending in the Chief CIC bench, the Commission requires drastic reforms. Plus, the CCIC and ICs must have a tenure of at least three years to justify their appointment    After...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 June 2015
There are 22,483 hutments in 327 hilly areas in Mumbai's 25 assembly constituencies that are located precariously and are vulnerable to landslides, especially during monsoon, reveals an RTI   About 327 hilly areas in Mumbai spread across 25 constituencies, accommodating over one...

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After nine months of creating a high drama to select the CIC, the apparent choice seems to be an anti-climax. As for the CVC, questions are being raised over his alleged involvement in corruption   Senior most Information Commissioner, Vijai Sharma is tippled to be the new Chief...

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There has been an agreement on the names to fill the vacant posts of the chief information commissioner (CIC) and central vigilance commissioner (CVC) at meetings held on Monday, official sources said.   They said that the agreement came after two meetings between Prime Minister...

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There are clear guidelines from the CIC for the PIO. So, the next time a PIO dilly-dallies over the information you have sought use this   While the RTI Act does empower the citizen to procure information from public authorities, it is sometimes intimidating for him, when the...

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Meanwhile, leading RTI activists have demanded making public, the names of the selected candidates; making the selection process time bound and appointing the senior most Information Commissioner, as the CIC, in the interim   In the continuing procrastination in the appointment of the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 May 2015
BMC should refund the Rs60 lakh it collected, while supplying information on the Mumbai DP, which was scrapped by the state government, demands RTI activist Anil Galgali   The Mumbai Development Plan (DP) 2015-2034 that was scrapped by the Maharashtra government following a hue and...

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