[rti_india] Re: [rti4empowerment] Wake up call

Monday, May 31, 2010

[rti_india] Re: [rti4empowerment] Wake up call

The various groups formed for discussing RTI matters are doing very good work. I find all posts very informative and information is power says RTI. But for posts in such groups, RTI would not have got the momentum it has generated despite Govt attempts to subvert its proper implementation. Sec 4 emphasizes that most information concerning PAs should be uploaded on their website. But who cares. In its recent judgement DDA vs CIC, Delhi HC, although considering a matter concerning non compliance of DDA to publish Sec 4 info, deemed it fit not to censure DDA for this lapse but censured CIC for its audacity to call VC DDA to discuss this with him and quashed CIC orders to form a committee to look into the matter. My Bharat Mahan. M k Singhal

From: Rahul <bruntno1@yahoo.com>
To: rti4empowerment@yahoogroups.com; Sidharth Misra <sidharthbbsr@gmail.com>; Gopalkrishnan iyer <iyer_ga@yahoo.com>
Sent: Mon, 31 May, 2010 10:19:48 PM
Subject: Re: [rti4empowerment] Wake up call

I completely agree with you Mr. Iyer
Not just for the asking, such information should be
out out on the Govt. website for free access
Much of the info that is sought should be made available
so that the burden of providing information should
not be used to slow down the process ..

I suspect part of the reason for stalling is using the classic
approach of delaying in order to blunt the enthusiasm
with which the info is sought, thereby hoping to discourage
future requests ...

Talking and ranting aboutnit on internet forums serves no purpose
What is required is practical steps on how to go about getting
the info one needs alongwith names, dates, places and
contact numbers of officials to be contacted for information

Any ideas and tips most welcome

With best wishes,
from

Rahul,

(bruntno1@yahoo.com

Cybugle@yahoo.com)

Owner/Moderator - The CYBUGLE & 60seconds

--- On Sun, 5/30/10, Gopalkrishnan iyer <iyer_ga@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Gopalkrishnan iyer <iyer_ga@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [rti4empowerment] Wake up call
To: rti4empowerment@yahoogroups.com, "Sidharth Misra" <sidharthbbsr@gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, May 30, 2010, 11:05 PM

We make so much of noise, express dissatisfaction,enter into debates, blame game and waste millions of man hours to chase the mirage called RTI
under certain acts said to be existing. By the very system democracy it is IMPLIED, as far as I can understand, that information(other than what are restrained/prohibited) should be available just for the asking. If the government tries to put spoke in its free dispensing or make getting information a herckulian task, there exists no democracy in our country,
I am afraid!!

Iyer GA

--- On Sun, 30/5/10, Sidharth Misra <sidharthbbsr@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Sidharth Misra <sidharthbbsr@gmail.com>
> Subject: [rti4empowerment] Wake up call
> To: rti4empowerment@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, 30 May, 2010, 11:58 AM
> Wake up call
> by Dilip Cherian, Asian Age
>
>
> PRIME MINISTER Manmohan Singh is still chipping away at
> Right to
> Information (RTI) they hint, but the Central Information
> Commission
> continues to bat for transparency despite the many
> obstacles it has
> faced since its inception.
>
> Concerned over increased reports of delays in redressal of
> public
> grievances, the commission has now directed the government
> to notify
> guidelines on the timeframe for redressing complaints.
> Incidentally,
> all this has nothing to do with the bogey of judicial
> objections that
> Dr Singh is blaming for wanting RTI amended.
>
> The directive issued by information commissioner Shailesh
> Gandhi in
> Delhi recently is being seen by RTI activists as yet
> another rap on
> the knuckles to the government for failing to respond in a
> timely
> manner. In some states, sources say, the guidelines have
> been duly
> framed but never implemented. In the case that came up
> before Mr
> Gandhi, the information commissioner learned that though
> the
> guidelines issued by the department of administrative
> reforms and
> public grievances has stipulated a timeframe for the
> authorities to
> respond, it is rarely enforced.
>
> Mr Gandhi's order now implies that babus who flout these
> guidelines
> may have to face administrative action for the delay. But
> will errant
> babus change their ways? Your guess is as good as mine.
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> source : http://epaper.asianage.com/ASIAN/AAGE/2010/05/30/ArticleHtmls/30_05_2010_007_007.shtml?Mode=1
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