RTI for citizens Right to Information: [rti_india] Re: RTI activists say its OK to bribe / reward public servants for doing

I don't understand your email

The total prize money awarded by PCRF is only about
Rs 10 lakhs. Why would they offer you Rs 5 lakhs,
and that too for Karnataka ? In any event, selecting
nominees from Karnataka would not make the nominees
automatically winners or runners-up.

I left out the names you mentioned, because they are
either not members here or have stated that they do
not wish to participate in discussions.

Sarbajit

--- In rti_india@yahoogroups.com, veeresh kumar <v4veeresh@...> wrote:
>
> 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.rtiawards.org/news/2009/11/23/prof-ansaris-reaction-and-our-response-thereto/
>
> Veeresh
>
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:13 AM, sarbajitr
> <sroy1947@<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rti_india/post?postID=pNbhwhSbIrBEsaBrWUTXcXrYePvvdzpbBbdS2LqDJ0pBCx_kBxyDutw0qB2YuCBUEk7v14Dk7ixHgn9w0Q>
> > 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
>