Dear Sarbjit
I have received over 30 copies of the identical letter from Aravind Kejarewal, each of them enclosing a copy of the order downloaded from SIC's website. Last year they had approached me to serve on their jury, but I declined as I was not impressed by Arvind's. evasive reply to Prof M.M.Ansari's critique of their methodology.
I am disquieted that so many people in RTI have agreed to join the Awards Selection Committee. It is time that people know that they offered me 5 lakhs to short list (as good as final selection) the awardees for Karnataka state. After I declined, they approached someone else. These awards are completely bogus and if it is CIA funded, which the PCRF has denied, they should be jailed.
Other prominent names you have left out from the RAC include
a) P M Ravindran (Kerala)
b) Dr Muzaffar Bhat (J&K)
c) Venkatesh Nayak (Delhi)
d) Malay Bhattachrya (WB)
e) Krishnaraj Rao (Maharashtra)
f) Fredrick Noronha (Goa)
FYI, While replying to Prof Ansari the PCRF has denied that they are foreign funded
http://www.rtiaward
Veeresh
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:13 AM, sarbajitr <sroy1947@...> wrote:
> A few days back I (along with almost every serious RTIer in the country) received a letter signed by a well known activist who is engaged in the whole time activity of identifying and corrupting public servants with foreign funds.
>The openly declared objectives of his organisation, whose funding corpus is originally from a well known CIA front organisation, is to "reward" public servants for doing their public duty/job. This of course is in addition to what the cash-strapped State pays such impoverished (after 6th pay commission) officers.
>What greatly disturbed me is the enclosure to that communication, which declares that other well-known RTI activists (and I use the term activist for want of an alternative) like Manoj Kamra, Manoj Pai, C J Karira, Vikram Simha, Shekhar Singh, etc are also part of this effort to bribe public servants to do their job. In my personal capacity I can only denounce such reprehensible activities and the persons (either knowingly or unwittingly) associated with this corrupt and anti-citizen venture.
Sarbajit
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