 Three Shillong families ostracized for filing RTISuresh Walawalkar 2.9.2010 11:19 |
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Mumbai: September 02, 2010: It's a goof-up that had a rather long life — 10 years almost. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been charging the same tax twice from many of the city's residents. It collects the sewerage tax along with the assessment tax (property tax).
New Delhi: September 2, 2010: Setting aside a Punjab and Haryana High Court verdict, the Supreme Court has ruled that the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) need not allow candidates to have unrestricted access to examination records under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
New Delhi: September 2, 2010: Slain Gujarat—based RTI activist Amit Jethwa has been chosen for a gallantry award instituted by a voluntary organisation working in the field of transparency.
PATNA: September 02, 2010: Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) A K Chaudhary in an important judgment on Wednesday quashed an application in which the PIO was charged with harassment in providing information about the reason behind the cancellation of arms licence.
SHILLONG: September 02, 2010: A traditional village court in Meghalaya has ostracized three families for filing RTIs which detected anomalies in the NREGS scheme and cast aspersions on village authorities.
Chennai: September 2, 2010: Till Tuesday, LK Sripathi was the Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary accused of blocking many RTI queries. But less than a day after his retirement, came his new appointment shrouded in secrecy.
Ahmedabad: September 01, 2010: The Gujarat Information Commission (GIC) has penalised an official of the Junagadh mining department for violating provisions of the RTI Act. In an order issued earlier this month, it has asked the public information officer of the department, A K Mule, to pay a fine of Rs 25,000 for not providing adequate details to a farmer, Gunwatsingh Vaish.
CHANDIGARH: August 31, 2010: The Punjab government has sought an amendment to the RTI Act for appointment of officiating chief information commissioner (CIC).
PATNA: August 31, 2010: State Information Commissioner (SIO) Shakeel Ahmad on Monday slapped fine on public information officer (PIO)- cum-panchayat secretary, Dhanauji panchayat in East Champaran district, for not providing information to an applicant on time.
NEW DELHI: August 30, 2010: From retired and serving babus to journalists to even RTI activists and academicians, everyone seems to be angling for the posts of chief information commissioner (CIC) and information commissioners (ICs). In a delicious irony, all the names have come out in an RTI reply.
Mumbai: August 30, 2010: Two days after the suspected murder of Right to Information (RTI) activist Ramdas Patil Gadegaonkar, the Nanded police are still clueless about the killers. The body of Gadegaonkar, who took on the sand mafia and made them pay a huge penalty, was found under the Hingoli bridge here on Friday night.
Accra: August 30, 2010: Issues of environmental protection, climate change and global warming have in recent times assumed centre stage of discussions in Ghana with various organizations and institutions running workshops and seminars to educate the public on the need to adopt measures to defend Our Earth through healthy environmental practices.
PANAJI: August 25, 2010: The Goa Cricket Association (GCA), in a letter to the Sports Authority of Goa (SAG) Panaji, has said that it does not come under the purview of the Right to Information Act.
AMRELI: August 25, 2010: While several inspiring stories about the Right To Information Act helping Indians get back their rights have been told, here's another inspiring tale of Pravin Dholakia, a 30-year-old diamond polisher in an Amreli village, who brought back food to his hungry family with the help of the Act. Not only that, his success inspired many others like him to fight for their rights as well.
New Delhi: August 24, 2010: An official of the Railway Minister's cell (office) appears to have fallen victim to the anger of the Ministry bosses following an RTI revelation that Rs 11 lakh was spent by authorities who went to meet Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal several times.
Ludhiana, August 22:- The right to information has to be seen as a part of the fundamental right to free speech and expression, as enshrined in Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution. This was stated by Hemant Goswami during a public awareness programme on the Right to Information (RTI) Act, organised by the Ludhiana branch of the NIRC of ICAI.
CHENNAI: August 23, 2010: Appointment of a new chief information commissioner for Tamil Nadu is likely to be a complex task for the State government as right to information (RTI) activists have stepped up their campaign to prevent the appointment of KS Sripathi to the post.
NAGPUR: August 22, 2010: In one of the far-reaching verdicts that will bring smiles on the faces of those who are not getting answers to their queries under Right To Information (RTI) Act, the Central Information Commission (CIC), New Delhi has asked Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation to a widow for its failure to provide information sought by her under the Act.
New Delhi: August 20, 2010: There are no defined duties and responsibilities for MPs and no accountability can be fixed on non-performing lawmakers, the Lok Sabha secretariat has told a right to information (RTI) activist.
CHENNAI: August 20, 2010: A 68-year-old Right to Information activist in Kancheepuram was found dead on the side of a road in Velathottam in Kancheepuram district on Thursday evening.
LUCKNOW: August 19, 2010: Acting late on an RTI application can work against a government employee. As happened with one of the senior clerks in the directorate of local bodies. The said employee did not bring the RTI application to the notice of PIO on time. As a result, the information sought by the applicant could only be provided to him a year after. The directorate of local bodies took disciplinary action against the senior clerk and made an adverse entry in his ACR.
Ghandhinagar: August 19, 2010: A police constable has been arrested and two people have been detained in connection with the murder of right to information (RTI) activist and environmentalist Amit Jethwa here July 20, police said Tuesday.
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Nazrul Islam’s RTI tussle on, no compensation yet
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Kolkata: September 04, 2010: Nearly 9 months after the West Bengal Information Commission (WBIC) directed the state Home department to pay a compensation of Rs 50,000 to IPS officer Nazrul Islam for the "detriment and harassment" faced by him for not receiving information under the RTI Act, the department is yet to comply to the order.
Preparatory info of Cabinet documents under RTI ambit: CIC
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NEW DELHI: September 04, 2010: Exemption clauses of the RTI Act related to Cabinet documents will apply only when proposals formulated are "actually" taken up for consideration by the Cabinet, the Central Information Commission has held.
For close to 10 years, BMC taxed Mumbaikars twice for sewerage
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Mumbai: September 02, 2010: It's a goof-up that had a rather long life — 10 years almost. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been charging the same tax twice from many of the city's residents. It collects the sewerage tax along with the assessment tax (property tax).
PPSC need not give info under RTI, rules SC
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New Delhi: September 2, 2010: Setting aside a Punjab and Haryana High Court verdict, the Supreme Court has ruled that the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) need not allow candidates to have unrestricted access to examination records under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
Proposed ‘Whistle-blowers protection’ legislation will only help the corrupt
The proposed "Public Interest Disclosure (Protection of Informers) Bill" recently cleared by the 'Union Cabinet' is being criticised by the activists working on corruption issues. Calling it a cheating and a cheap trick by the politicians on the people of India, citizen groups have questioned the intent of the Government to keep the proposed legislation under the wraps and approving it without any public discussion or debate.
In a meeting conducted by civil society organisations, 'Burning Brain Society,' 'Citizens Voice' and 'RTI Users Association' on the issue, the activists said that most of the provisions in the proposed legislation come from the 2003 draft proposal of the legislation placed by the law commission which actually favours the bureaucrats and in a way create deterrence in exposing corruption, instead of facilitating whistle blowers. Moreover the NGO's asserted that post 2005, even individuals who are using 'Right to Information' to expose corruption needs protection.
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