Re: [IAC#RG] Request for suo-moto Information under RTI Act

To:

Shri Dhiraj Srivastava

PS to CP and Central Public Information Officer

National Advisory Council,

2, Motilal Nehru Place,

New Delhi

18-June-2013

Dear Mr Shrivastava

Many thanks for your reply.

1) I had requested for the information to be provided suo-moto under the Life or Liberty proviso to section 7(1) of RTI Act 2005 , whereas the CIC decision you have relied on is "per incuram" referring to some Life and Liberty matter,

2) For your information, Mr. Vidya Charan Shukla has passed away in the meantime.It is really shocking that such a venerable UPA leader was compelled at age 83 years to attend a meeting without adequate security in a Naxal dominated region on the motivated advice of the NAC member, who subsequently resigned.

3) It is really shocking that the NAC has been infested with so many Maoists and Naxalites for so many years since 2006.

4) It is really shocking that ever since the NAC was formed the number of LWE controlled districts in India has gone up from 53 to 287.

5) It is really shocking that another former NAC member Mr. Harsh Mander was sheltering the wife of a known LWE leader for over 2 years, and had to resign over this issue when it came out.

In the circumstances it would be eminently fit if the NAC declares ON ITS OWN the qualifications and procedures for appointment of its members, including its Chairperson, so that the nation knows how why so many innocent lives INCLUDING OF PARA-MILITARY & SECURITY FORCES are being lost on a daily basis through leakage of confidential government information by secret and unexplained placement of private LWE persons in councils like the NAC, Planning Commission etc. which advise the Prime Minister of India.

For your information, a double Bench of the Central Information Commission in my own case by order dt. 01.06.2009 in CIC/LS/C/2009/00322 has reiterated that section 4 disclosure is to be provided immediately, free of cost  and without any request being made for it.

"(i) Since a reasonable time has now passed from the time of promulgation of the Act in 2005, the Public Authorities should now take urgent steps to have their records converted to electronic form, catalogued, indexed and
computerized for easy accessibility through the network all over the country, as  mandated in section 4 (1) (a) of the Act. The computerization, dissemination and updating of record is an ongoing and continuous process and all Public Authorities should put a proper system in place to make such sharing of records an automatic, routine and continuous process, so that access to such records is facilitated.

(ii) The Public Authorities are required to take immediate steps to publish detailed, complete and unambiguous information under the 16 categories, as on 31.3.2009 (if already not done or partially done) and thereafter update the information as and when necessary, but definitely every year, as mandated under section 4 (1) (b) of the
Act.

(iii) While formulating important policies or announcing the decisions affecting the public, the Public Authorities are required to publish all relevant facts about such policies
and decisions for the information of public at large, as mandated under section 4 (1) (c) of the Act.

(iv) The information disclosed by the Public Authorities under section 4 (1) (b) & (c ) of the Act is required to be disseminated through multiple means as provided under sub sections 2, 3 and 4 of Section 4 of the Act and as also suggested in Para 17.1 of the template prepared by the Tata Consultancy Service Ltd (Reference Para 14 above)/ or as per the practice adopted by the Government of Andhra Pradesh and the Andhra Pradesh State Information Commission (reference Para 13 above).

(v) Needless to say, the information disclosed by the Public Authorities under section 4 (1) (b) & (c) of the Act is a proactive disclosure and the Public Authorities are required to provide immediate access to this material as and when so requested, without the requirement of filing of any written request and the charging of any fee."

With best wishes

Er. Sarbajit Roy
National Convenor
Indian Against Corruption, jan andolan

B-59 Defence Colony, 2nd floor
New Delhi 110024
Tel: 011-24334262

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Dhiraj Srivastava <dhiraj.s@nac.nic.in> wrote:

Subject: Application under Right to Information Act, 2005

Dear Shri Roy,

Please refer to your E Mail on the subject mentioned above. You are requested to kindly intimate the substantive evidence in support of your claim of filing application under section 7(1) related to life & liberty of the RTI Act, 2005. Otherwise the application shall be processed as per normal provisions.

An order of the CIC in this context is enclosed for your reference in this context. In addition to above, you are also requested to remit Rs.10.00 as application fee by way of Postal Order / Demand Draft / Cheque in favour of Section Officer, Prime Minister's Office, New Delhi. The application shall be processed on receipt of the desired information.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

 

(Dhiraj Srivastava)

PS to CP and Central Public Information Officer

National Advisory Council,

2, Motilal Nehru Place,

New Delhi

 

 

 

On 06/10/13 01:07 PM, Sarbajit Roy wrote:

By EMAIL

To:
a) Central Public Information Officer
National Advisory Council
New Delhi

b) Secretary,
National Advisory Council
New Delhi

Date: 10-June-2013

Dear Sir/Madam,

URGENT

Sirs,

Sub: RTI request under section 4 of RTI Act 2005 to be complied immediately.

I am constrained to remind you that I have not received the suo-moto information sought by India Against Corruption's members vide my email dated 29-May-2013 (appended below).

The said email was sent under "Life or Liberty" clause of RTI Act on behalf of IAC (a strictly apolitical and secular people's movement) considering the deaths of so many persons in 25 May 2103 massacre who were "compelled" to go into areas well known to be LWE infested.

The reasons I am again requesting the information be published is summarised below:-

1) Because Ms Aruna Roy (former member NAC) is said to be a well known LWE. By way of example you may refer to the book "NGOs, Subversive Activists and Foreign Funds : the anti-nation industry 2nd edn." co-authored by her IAS batchmate Dr. Krishen Kak. Copies of the book are in the Library of Parliament. For your ready reference I am setting out a few directly relevant paragraphs therein

"'A careful look at the money trail of AID illustrates the functioning of the organisation, and throws light on other organisations that are used to funnel money collected by AID. These organisations co-ordinate their fund-raising activities and shadow their proceeds by passing through multiple accounts all controlled by like minded groups. One such organisation that has been funded by AID is called Tamil Nadu Science Forum (TNSF). TNSF works actively with DYFI. TNSF listed Balaji Sampath, who is also a founder of AID. Thus while Balaji Sampath's AID collects money in America, BALAJI SAMPATH (in his Indian incarnation!) receives money in India, ostensibly on behalf of TNSF.'

I understand that TNSF 'as a policy' would always impose a pre-condition on the libraries in Tamilnadu which they were financially supporting to the effect that the concerned libraries would only support DYFI and no other student body before receiving any funds. AID is a secretive organisation which enjoys the full political support of the UPA Government in New Delhi. It was AID which extended generous financial support to Sandeep Pandey, founder of ASHA and a known Naxalite sympathizer, to undertake a political trip to Pakistan some years ago.

Those who work with AID and its allies also seem to be experts in organizing international prizes and awards to themselves as part of a civil and cultural conspiracy. One Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy was given a prize by the Aga Khan foundation for having developed rainwater harvesting structures. Later investigations by The Week clearly revealed that he had hired a professional architect called Neehar Raina to get the job done. Upon this exposure, Aga Khan Foundation changed its citation to fit in with the known facts! A secularly shameless non-communal Roy, ended up by returning his prize. Bunker Roy's wife Aruna Roy, is a Maoist and has worked closely with AID. Like many who have worked closely with AID in its undeclared mission of national subversion, she too has been awarded a prize by the Ramon Magsaysay Foundation.

I can only conclude that NGO's like AID, ASHA, CAIR, FeTNA are all committed to their supreme objective of De-Hinduising the Indian State which means rendering the Hindu identity to any aspect of our national life illegitimate and irrelevant in public life and public discourse"

2) That apparently post the May 25 2013 Chattisgarh massacre, specific intelligence was available to the Govt of India concerning the involvement of private member(s) of the NAC  to "De-Hindu"-ise (?) the Congress Party's leadership in the presently BJP ruled States of Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh which go to polls very shortly .

3) That it is well known to MHA that front NGOs (such as Social Work Reserch Centre, Tilonia [Rajasthan]) of Mr. Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy (who is said to be Ms. Aruna Roy's husband) regularly receive many crores of rupees under FCRA from foreign sources routed via countries such as Tibet and Sierra Leone.

4) That it is very well known to Govt. of India and the MHA that large amounts of foreign exchange are flowing in to India for conversion of animist tribals to Christianity, especially in states such as Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh, and that radical Christian "priests" are actively inciting India's tribals to take up arms against the State, ie. LWEism also known as Naxalism, Maoism etc.

5) That Ms. Aruna Roy's husband actively runs massively foreign funded programs to train so-called "barefoot" doctors and "barefoot engineers". These illiterate unqualified depressed people are systematically brain-washed as agitators / technicians who go about fomenting disaffection against the Indian State and its institutions.

6) That Ms. Aruna Roy corruptly misused her status as a private (ie. "without salary to evade application of the Prevention of Corruption Act") NAC member to ensure that Ministries of Govt of India give huge funding to her husband's NGOs for the training of "barefoot" LWEs. Ms. Aruna Roy and her husband (who are only "humanities" graduates) have systematically ensured (through their proximity to Chairperson NAC and lobbying access thereby to critical Ministries) that the "Engineers Act/Bill" to regulate the qualifications and supervisory bodies to regulate the profession of Engineering is never passed. Thereby enabling this enterprising duo to carry on their hugely profitable private business of training "barefoot engineers" aka LWEs for some foreign natrions who openly finance them. It is also an open secret that Ms. Aruna Roy and her aforesaid husband were part of  the move to tamper with the autonomy of the IITs, and also caused the arrest on 28.11.2011 of many IAC volunteers for raising slogans like "Desh ke yuvak yahaan hain, Rahul Gandhi kahaan hain ?" close to NAC office that day.

7) That when the concerned Intelligence / Investigative agencies communicated their inability to investigate the May 25 Chattisgarh massacre in the face of such High Profile persons being close to Hon''ble Chairperson NAC and being in a position to impede their free and unfettered investigations, Ms. Aruna Roy got convinced to "resign" from the NAC.

8) That Ms. Aruna Roy was replaced at the NAC by another Christian tribal's agitator in a tearing hurry and without any public procedure and/or public scrutiny being available or followed (as the IAC had requested vide my email dt. 29.05.2013 which was also addressed to the Cabinet Secretary by name).

9) That IAC apprehends the said hurried appointment of Ms Aruna Roy's replacement is to continue an  unfinished agenda to de-Hinduise the Congress Party leadership in specific BJP ruled states. Hence IAC's request for urgent suo-moto disclosure.

In the circumstances, we repeat our request that all available information pertaining to procedure and terms for selection of members of the NAC is put into the public domain within 48 hours on Life or Liberty basis, as IAC is seriously interested in knowing how alleged/purported LWEs came to be appointed to NAC-I and NAC-II and if this was in any way responsible for deaths of so many citizens of India (with perhaps more to come).

With best wishes

yours sincerely


Er. Sarbajit Roy
National Convenor
Indian Against Corruption, jan andolan

B-59 Defence Colony, 2nd floor
New Delhi 110024
Tel: 011-24334262

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:

By EMAIL

To:
1) Central Public Information Officer
National Advisory Council
New Delhi

2) Cabinet Secretary to Govt of India

Date: 29-May-2013

Kind Attn:
a) Mr Dhiraj Shrivastava (PS to Chairperson/NAC),

b) Mr Ajit Kumar Seth (Cabinet Secretary/GoI)

URGENT

Sirs,

Sub: RTI request under section 4 of RTI Act 2005 to be complied immediately.

Kindly treat this as a "Life or Liberty" application

I have come to know from the below mentioned NDTV link that there are now some vacancies for post of "Member" in the National Advisory Council and which post(s) I would like to formally apply to be considered for.

I am given to understand that the published qualification for the post is "professionals with diverse experience"
which I abundantly fulfill.

I would therefore be obliged to be urgently informed the procedure and application format (if any) to be considered.

I would also like to be urgently informed about the present prescribed salary and perquisites for the post, as I know for a fact that some corrupt members of NAC-I were misusing their posts (which was then an unpaid one) to lobby for foreign interests.

With best wishes

yours sincerely


Er. Sarbajit Roy
National Convenor
Indian Against Corruption, jan andolan

B-59 Defence Colony, 2nd floor
New Delhi 110024
Tel: 011-24334262

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Joshi NM <naishadhjoshi@gmail.com> wrote:

 
Sub: Re: Aruna Roy bidding goodbye to NAC

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/social-activist-aruna-roy-resigns-from-sonia-gandhi-led-national-advisory-council-372756 

Social activist Aruna Roy resigns from Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council

Social activist Aruna Roy has decided not to continue in the National Advisory Council, led by UPA chairman Sonia Gandhi, after her term expires on Friday.

Ms Roy has written a letter to Mrs Gandhi requesting that she should not be considered for another term of NAC that sets the social agenda for the government and the UPA Chairperson has accepted the request.

On her way out, Ms Roy criticised the government for not taking up recommendations of the council on minimum wages to workers under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).