Tuesday, April 20, 2010

[rti_india] Re: DoPT releases report on discussion with "civil society"

 

Dear Karira

"Civil society" are not "societies" and rarely "civil". What this was is a classic example of DoPT using Shekhar Singh's "rent a NGO" service to justify their preplanned RTI Act amendments.

Shekhar Singh incidentally is the person who denied that he took Rs.10,000 from Greenpeace as RTI consultancy fees against Monsanto (the arch enemy # 2 of the radical left) but has no hesitation in publicising everywhere that Google gave him a crore of (unaccounted) rupees.

Sarbajit

--- In rti_india@yahoogroups.com, C K Jam <rtiwanted@...> wrote:
>
> According to DoPT, "civil society" constitutes only NGO's.
> Some of the results of those group discussions are laughable.
> Even DoPT itself has not implemented most of them, including Sec 4 (1)(a) !
>
> RTIwanted
>
> --- On Mon, 4/19/10, sarbajitr <sroy1947@...> wrote:
>
>
> Well, from DoPT's document, Maja Daruwala didn't speak at all there.
>
> In any case, I have just sent an email to Secy DoPT that consultations with what is half of the NCPRI working committee can hardly be deemed to be consultation with "all civil society" (list attached) as they claim. AND CERTAINLY NOT AS A BASIS FOR AMENDING RTI ACT in a hurry without public consultation !!!.
>
> Sarbajit

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