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[rti_india] P&H High court : No sanction needed to remove corrupt babus: [1 Attachment]

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High court:

No sanction needed to remove corrupt babus

Saurabh Malik/TNS

Chandigarh, 28 May 2012

In a first, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has reinterpreted provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act to hold that public servants, who can be removed by the subordinate authorities other than the government, are not entitled to protection of sanction......To Read More open attachment.

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Re: [HumJanenge] How can we Prevent the On-going Blunders in India - Is RTI Helpful ?

Please ignore such parasites of the society .Do not invite them on any function unless he proves himself as a real patron of the society.Looking at the lavish celebrations made

on marriage, birthday and on many such occasions the country is now a safe haven for a limited few of unearned income[Black -Money] persons.Please shun such gatherings with the contempt it deserves.When you are in distress none of these self seekers have time to be by your side for help.It is time for silent protest by each one against such vulgar life style of few.

With kind regards

A.K.BHATTACHARYYA

F.I.StructE (UK), FIE (India), FIBE, FIRT
H-2A, Hauzkhas, New Delhi -16, Ph:011-26854127

--- On Wed, 5/30/12, capt beniwal <trident142@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

From: capt beniwal <trident142@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] How can we Prevent the On-going Blunders in India - Is RTI Helpful ?
To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com
Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 5:45 PM

Goyal sir, what you said is for every body to follow. But for information to all/you the MPs have made themselves ENTITLED to pension by being ONE DAY in parliament, thats after he/she takes oath, because they have omitted the minimum service period from the rule for pension for MPs. any person who was MP for ANY period shall be paid pension, including those members of constituent assembly. Is it not great job done by the MPs of all parties ?. The MPs should serve a minimum of ten years, similar to a public servant, to become entitled for pension and perks. they have also made SC judge entitled to pension after ONE DAY in the court wef Apr 2004. this was done so that no body challange the MPs getting pension after one day in parliament. you may call such act what ever you like, all MPs are together in it. rgds. beniwal

--- On Wed, 30/5/12, Hari Goyal <rtidwarka@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

From: Hari Goyal <rtidwarka@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] How can we Prevent the On-going Blunders in India - Is RTI Helpful ?
To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com
Cc: "RTI Activist Hari Goyal" <rtidwarka@yahoo.co.in>, "Gr RTI India" <admin@rtiindia.org>, "RTI_India" <rti_india@googlegroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, 30 May, 2012, 10:05 AM

We the citizens of Real India take certain steps immediately:

1. We must stop addressing the Ministers in Centre and in States, addressing them 'Hon'ble'

2. No body including ministers and their relatives not living with them also should get free security staff when they are paid from the common man's contribution to Central and State Taxes.

3.   No free passes for air travels and by railways for the family members of the buraucrats.

4.   No pension for any MP or MLA if he/she has not served for 20 years at least. No question of pension after 5 yeras of getting MP ship or MLA ship. There should be record of time and days when the elected so-called representative in Partliament and State Assembly.

5. Travelling by vehicles for the members of Babus for getting vegetables from the market, going to schools and colleges by sons/daughters of Babus must be stopped. Let them hire taxis by paying from Babu's salary.

Hari Goyal

30.05.2012

--- On Sun, 6/5/12, Mahesh Khera <mkkhera@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Mahesh Khera <mkkhera@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] How can we Prevent the On-going Blunders in India - Is RTI Helpful ?
To: "humjanenge@googlegroups.com" <humjanenge@googlegroups.com>
Date: Sunday, 6 May, 2012, 8:24 PM

Hi Sarbajit,

Your approach appears to be very logical as you have first described the rationale and then proposed sending of mails.

The whole of nation fought for Jan Lokpal, politicians made it to be a shameful and disgraceful tamasha as govt appointed Abhishek Manu Singhvi as the chairman of the standing committee deciding Lokpal draft, babus were cunning and our TV channels so eager to sell the ad time made the whole serious issue of corruption as a joke. People got disillusioned. India does not know how to make netas work, babus accountable, police act as Law Enforcement Agencies for all on equality basis and judiciary come out of their self planned sleepy mode and many times deciding the verdict first and trial later.

Your approach of sending carefully drafted mails with startling facts to serving babus from distinguished citizens who have served the nation with distinction and are recognized as respectful people and most of the babus receiving the mails from such a well respected fraternity would get impacted for improvement. I say this because your mails will contain such unquestionable startling facts, if babus act the aim is achieved. If babus choose to ignore and the sordid state continues then these babus would be liable to be taken to court for dereliction of duties even when they have been told about the impending disaster through these mails.

Let your initiative awaken the babudom to their responsibility clearly knowing that the sword hangs on their heads if they do not take action.

With warm regards,

Col Mahesh Khera

From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com>
To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, 4 May 2012 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] How can we Prevent the On-going Blunders in India - Is RTI Helpful ?

Dear Mahesh

Messages from this RTI related forum go out to about 10,000 persons.

The "10 million" reference is about another of my social work
associations which is
not connected with RTI, (but with A) nation building as per Indian
tradition B) Elimination of corrupt persons).

As we can all sense, l and I'm sure nobody will deny it, the Indian
people are sheep who can be easily brainwashed, controlled by foreign
parasites, and easily led astray into wasting their time in blind
alleys and useless activities. (ie. "Lotus Eaters"). It is only our
Defence forces which have held the nation together (until now). After
retirement most of glorious IESMs revert to mean and indulge in Lotus
Eating activities.

If even 50 of our IESM members volunteer to send just 2 emails
(drafted by me) to babus (selected by me) ONCE a MONTH, we will
witness change taking place before our eyes and in our lifetimes.

Screw social media and public battles - those are for Lotus Eating
NGOs. Patriots execute covert actions against precise targets based
on proper intelligence.

For instance, I want 50 volunteers to send an email (which I have
already sent in my own name) to the Babus concerning how 8,000
Ministry of Defence computers were hacked by the Chinese and the babus
are still fighting over who will investigate the matter. No
investigation has taken place and 1000's of Top Secret files of Army
and Assam Rifles were sucked out of MoD computers and these computers
are still connected to the Internet leaking away to our Enemy No.1.

After this I want to send an email about a recent CONFIDENTAIL Cabinet
Secretariat project which re-employs retired babus at per-diems of Rs.
5,000 per day with stay in 4 star hotels in Delhi and regular to=fro
air tickets etc. The names of the people selected are an eye opener.

Sarbajit

On 5/3/12, Mahesh Khera <mkkhera@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> US, Canada, China, Korea, 26 EU nations and 10 other developed nations are
> on a high speed irrevocable growth path of encouraging and implementing
> Telecom, Media and Technology (TMT) infrastructure. This infrastructure has
> been growing their economies as also helping them to lead mostly a
> corruption free life. All this is due to their educated, mature, relatively
> honest and committed political leadership kept in solid monitoring and
> control mode by their people, quick and hawk like media and swift
> judiciary. >> India has already nearly destroyed one of its most essential
> infrastructures, telecom and it now has been brought in line with our every
> other dismal infrastructure like roads, power, education, health,
> transportation, ports, airports and so on. More importantly, a ubiquitous
> TMT infrastructure is a pre-requisite to curb corruption. Lokpals/Lokayuktas
> and honest judiciary can bring to little extent but when combined with e
> governance, a very sharp decline in corruption is achieved in quickest time.
> We have already destroyed both the growth prospects of our GDP as also the
> dreams of controlling corruption.
>
> In the absence of any other means, can RTI be used to gather necessary
> inputs and then combined with media quickly disseminate these to the people
> like a viral letting them know how our political leadership through their
> unintelligent, immature and dishonest commitment to their oaths which they
> all took when they became MPs/MLAs, ministers and so on has been taking the
> country behind while the rest of the world is marching ahead with
> improvements after improvements. Just to cite only one example, South Korea
> a war ravaged nation got its independence much later than India, its one
> company Samsung alone generates more than $ 160 billion of annual revenue
> and just recently beaten Apple to second place in its own backyards in US.
> Look at the policies followed by them and what India has done. We have no
> place to hide our selves from this shame.
>
> Through this single largest forum in the country, more than 10 million as
> per Mr Sarbajit, lets take up what ever we can to raise this awareness like
> a viral among the people of India.
>
> Jai Hind
>
> With warm regards,
>
> Col Mahesh Khera

[HumJanenge] Mal-functioning of Odisha Information Commission (6)

Mal-functioning of Odisha Information Commission (6)

Odisha Information Commissioners never ensure information to the Complainant despite knowing that the order of the Commission to provide information complied neither by the PIO nor the 1st Appellate Authority. The Information Commissioners are working day and night to protect corrupt officials and on-going corrupt practices in Govt.

Dear friends

Since 2011, it has become useless strategy of Odisha Information Commission to arbitrarily dispose the Complaint cases without hearing and remanding to 1^st Appellate Authority to provide information to the Complainant. In so-called order, the Commission also asks the complainant to file Second Appeal before the Commission, if he or she is not satisfied with the order of the First Appellate Authority.

Mr. Tapana Mohapatra, RTI Applicant based in Bhubaneswar had submitted an application to the PIO, Office of Tahasildar, and Bhubaneswar seeking information about land issues in vicinity of Bhubaneswar. It needs to be mentioned here that huge corruption and irregularities in respect of land allotment and purchase and sale of land is going on in Bhubaneswar. Getting no response from Govt. Mr. Mohapatra filed complaint before Odisha Information Commission on 6.1.2011. Mr. Pramod Kumar Mohanty, SIC without hearing the Complaint case ( CC No- 02/2011) arbitrarily remanded to the 1^st Appellate Authority, office of Tahasildar, Bhubaneswar on 31.10.2011 to dispose the case within 30 days and asked the Complainant to come with 2^nd appeal again to the Commission , if he fails to get information.

Finding no justice from the 1^st Appellate Authority as per direction of the Commission, Mr. Mohapatra again approached the Commission intimating Mr. Pramod Kumar Mohanty, State Information Commissioner about non-compliance of his order by the 1^st Appellate Authority on 9.12.0211. Though more than 6 months have passed, Mr. Pramod Mohanty has neither heard the case nor ensure d information. Mr. Tapan Mohapatra, complainant is waiting for unknown period to get the information.

This is the true Character of Information Commissioners in Odisha. They use their power and authority to protect corruption of Govt. and corrupt officials at the cost of the interest of Complainant-citizens.

If anybody has any query, Please directly talk to Complainant on his mobile ( 94376-35267).

Regards

Pradip Pradhan

M-99378-43482

Date- 31.5.2012

Re: [HumJanenge] RTI-PIO boards on WR-CR Rly stations in Mumbai

Thanks.Regards

Bunch

--- On Mon, 28/5/12, Mohammed Afzal <mohdafzal1963@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Mohammed Afzal <mohdafzal1963@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] RTI-PIO boards on WR-CR Rly stations in Mumbai
To: "humjanenge@googlegroups.com" <humjanenge@googlegroups.com>
Cc: "janenge groups" <humjanenge@yahoogroups.co.in>, "humjanenge@googlegroups.com" <humjanenge@googlegroups.com>
Date: Monday, 28 May, 2012, 8:18 PM

Hi raja bunch

Happy for you for getting the required success. It will help one and all. Keep doing the good work and make us proud.

Best Regds - Mohammed Afzal

Sent from my iPhone

On 27-May-2012, at 9:25 PM, raja bunch <bunch_raja@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Friends
last year after struggling with Western Railway for almost 13 months I manged to get around 800 PIO boards installed in Western Railway from Churcgate to WR limits.( East and West sides)
Few days back I got confirmation from HQ-CR that they have finished installing with Mumbai Divn and the rest are in process throughout CR limits.

For information and wide publicity
Rgds
Raja John Bunch-9969972283
National Campaigner for Right to Information.(NCPRI)

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Re: [HumJanenge] How can we Prevent the On-going Blunders in India - Is RTI Helpful ?

Goyal sir, what you said is for every body to follow. But for information to all/you the MPs have made themselves ENTITLED to pension by being ONE DAY in parliament, thats after he/she takes oath, because they have omitted the minimum service period from the rule for pension for MPs. any person who was MP for ANY period shall be paid pension, including those members of constituent assembly. Is it not great job done by the MPs of all parties ?. The MPs should serve a minimum of ten years, similar to a public servant, to become entitled for pension and perks. they have also made SC judge entitled to pension after ONE DAY in the court wef Apr 2004. this was done so that no body challange the MPs getting pension after one day in parliament. you may call such act what ever you like, all MPs are together in it. rgds. beniwal

--- On Wed, 30/5/12, Hari Goyal <rtidwarka@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

From: Hari Goyal <rtidwarka@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] How can we Prevent the On-going Blunders in India - Is RTI Helpful ?
To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com
Cc: "RTI Activist Hari Goyal" <rtidwarka@yahoo.co.in>, "Gr RTI India" <admin@rtiindia.org>, "RTI_India" <rti_india@googlegroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, 30 May, 2012, 10:05 AM

We the citizens of Real India take certain steps immediately:

1. We must stop addressing the Ministers in Centre and in States, addressing them 'Hon'ble'

2. No body including ministers and their relatives not living with them also should get free security staff when they are paid from the common man's contribution to Central and State Taxes.

3.   No free passes for air travels and by railways for the family members of the buraucrats.

4.   No pension for any MP or MLA if he/she has not served for 20 years at least. No question of pension after 5 yeras of getting MP ship or MLA ship. There should be record of time and days when the elected so-called representative in Partliament and State Assembly.

5. Travelling by vehicles for the members of Babus for getting vegetables from the market, going to schools and colleges by sons/daughters of Babus must be stopped. Let them hire taxis by paying from Babu's salary.

Hari Goyal

30.05.2012

--- On Sun, 6/5/12, Mahesh Khera <mkkhera@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Mahesh Khera <mkkhera@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] How can we Prevent the On-going Blunders in India - Is RTI Helpful ?
To: "humjanenge@googlegroups.com" <humjanenge@googlegroups.com>
Date: Sunday, 6 May, 2012, 8:24 PM

Hi Sarbajit,

Your approach appears to be very logical as you have first described the rationale and then proposed sending of mails.

The whole of nation fought for Jan Lokpal, politicians made it to be a shameful and disgraceful tamasha as govt appointed Abhishek Manu Singhvi as the chairman of the standing committee deciding Lokpal draft, babus were cunning and our TV channels so eager to sell the ad time made the whole serious issue of corruption as a joke. People got disillusioned. India does not know how to make netas work, babus accountable, police act as Law Enforcement Agencies for all on equality basis and judiciary come out of their self planned sleepy mode and many times deciding the verdict first and trial later.

Your approach of sending carefully drafted mails with startling facts to serving babus from distinguished citizens who have served the nation with distinction and are recognized as respectful people and most of the babus receiving the mails from such a well respected fraternity would get impacted for improvement. I say this because your mails will contain such unquestionable startling facts, if babus act the aim is achieved. If babus choose to ignore and the sordid state continues then these babus would be liable to be taken to court for dereliction of duties even when they have been told about the impending disaster through these mails.

Let your initiative awaken the babudom to their responsibility clearly knowing that the sword hangs on their heads if they do not take action.

With warm regards,

Col Mahesh Khera

From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com>
To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, 4 May 2012 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] How can we Prevent the On-going Blunders in India - Is RTI Helpful ?

Dear Mahesh

Messages from this RTI related forum go out to about 10,000 persons.

The "10 million" reference is about another of my social work
associations which is
not connected with RTI, (but with A) nation building as per Indian
tradition B) Elimination of corrupt persons).

As we can all sense, l and I'm sure nobody will deny it, the Indian
people are sheep who can be easily brainwashed, controlled by foreign
parasites, and easily led astray into wasting their time in blind
alleys and useless activities. (ie. "Lotus Eaters"). It is only our
Defence forces which have held the nation together (until now). After
retirement most of glorious IESMs revert to mean and indulge in Lotus
Eating activities.

If even 50 of our IESM members volunteer to send just 2 emails
(drafted by me) to babus (selected by me) ONCE a MONTH, we will
witness change taking place before our eyes and in our lifetimes.

Screw social media and public battles - those are for Lotus Eating
NGOs. Patriots execute covert actions against precise targets based
on proper intelligence.

For instance, I want 50 volunteers to send an email (which I have
already sent in my own name) to the Babus concerning how 8,000
Ministry of Defence computers were hacked by the Chinese and the babus
are still fighting over who will investigate the matter. No
investigation has taken place and 1000's of Top Secret files of Army
and Assam Rifles were sucked out of MoD computers and these computers
are still connected to the Internet leaking away to our Enemy No.1.

After this I want to send an email about a recent CONFIDENTAIL Cabinet
Secretariat project which re-employs retired babus at per-diems of Rs.
5,000 per day with stay in 4 star hotels in Delhi and regular to=fro
air tickets etc. The names of the people selected are an eye opener.

Sarbajit

On 5/3/12, Mahesh Khera <mkkhera@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> US, Canada, China, Korea, 26 EU nations and 10 other developed nations are
> on a high speed irrevocable growth path of encouraging and implementing
> Telecom, Media and Technology (TMT) infrastructure. This infrastructure has
> been growing their economies as also helping them to lead mostly a
> corruption free life. All this is due to their educated, mature, relatively
> honest and committed political leadership kept in solid monitoring and
> control mode by their people, quick and hawk like media and swift
> judiciary. >> India has already nearly destroyed one of its most essential
> infrastructures, telecom and it now has been brought in line with our every
> other dismal infrastructure like roads, power, education, health,
> transportation, ports, airports and so on. More importantly, a ubiquitous
> TMT infrastructure is a pre-requisite to curb corruption. Lokpals/Lokayuktas
> and honest judiciary can bring to little extent but when combined with e
> governance, a very sharp decline in corruption is achieved in quickest time.
> We have already destroyed both the growth prospects of our GDP as also the
> dreams of controlling corruption.
>
> In the absence of any other means, can RTI be used to gather necessary
> inputs and then combined with media quickly disseminate these to the people
> like a viral letting them know how our political leadership through their
> unintelligent, immature and dishonest commitment to their oaths which they
> all took when they became MPs/MLAs, ministers and so on has been taking the
> country behind while the rest of the world is marching ahead with
> improvements after improvements. Just to cite only one example, South Korea
> a war ravaged nation got its independence much later than India, its one
> company Samsung alone generates more than $ 160 billion of annual revenue
> and just recently beaten Apple to second place in its own backyards in US.
> Look at the policies followed by them and what India has done. We have no
> place to hide our selves from this shame.
>
> Through this single largest forum in the country, more than 10 million as
> per Mr Sarbajit, lets take up what ever we can to raise this awareness like
> a viral among the people of India.
>
> Jai Hind
>
> With warm regards,
>
> Col Mahesh Khera

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Re: [HumJanenge] How can we Prevent the On-going Blunders in India - Is RTI Helpful ?

We the citizens of Real India take certain steps immediately:

1. We must stop addressing the Ministers in Centre and in States, addressing them 'Hon'ble'

2. No body including ministers and their relatives not living with them also should get free security staff when they are paid from the common man's contribution to Central and State Taxes.

3. No free passes for air travels and by railways for the family members of the buraucrats.

4. No pension for any MP or MLA if he/she has not served for 20 years at least. No question of pension after 5 yeras of getting MP ship or MLA ship. There should be record of time and days when the elected so-called representative in Partliament and State Assembly.

5. Travelling by vehicles for the members of Babus for getting vegetables from the market, going to schools and colleges by sons/daughters of Babus must be stopped. Let them hire taxis by paying from Babu's salary.

Hari Goyal

30.05.2012

--- On Sun, 6/5/12, Mahesh Khera <mkkhera@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Mahesh Khera <mkkhera@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] How can we Prevent the On-going Blunders in India - Is RTI Helpful ?
To: "humjanenge@googlegroups.com" <humjanenge@googlegroups.com>
Date: Sunday, 6 May, 2012, 8:24 PM

Hi Sarbajit,

Your approach appears to be very logical as you have first described the rationale and then proposed sending of mails.

The whole of nation fought for Jan Lokpal, politicians made it to be a shameful and disgraceful tamasha as govt appointed Abhishek Manu Singhvi as the chairman of the standing committee deciding Lokpal draft, babus were cunning and our TV channels so eager to sell the ad time made the whole serious issue of corruption as a joke. People got disillusioned. India does not know how to make netas work, babus accountable, police act as Law Enforcement Agencies for all on equality basis and judiciary come out of their self planned sleepy mode and many times deciding the verdict first and trial later.

Your approach of sending carefully drafted mails with startling facts to serving babus from distinguished citizens who have served the nation with distinction and are recognized as respectful people and most of the babus receiving the mails from such a well respected fraternity would get impacted for improvement. I say this because your mails will contain such unquestionable startling facts, if babus act the aim is achieved. If babus choose to ignore and the sordid state continues then these babus would be liable to be taken to court for dereliction of duties even when they have been told about the impending disaster through these mails.

Let your initiative awaken the babudom to their responsibility clearly knowing that the sword hangs on their heads if they do not take action.

With warm regards,

Col Mahesh Khera

From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com>
To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, 4 May 2012 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] How can we Prevent the On-going Blunders in India - Is RTI Helpful ?

Dear Mahesh

Messages from this RTI related forum go out to about 10,000 persons.

The "10 million" reference is about another of my social work
associations which is
not connected with RTI, (but with A) nation building as per Indian
tradition B) Elimination of corrupt persons).

As we can all sense, l and I'm sure nobody will deny it, the Indian
people are sheep who can be easily brainwashed, controlled by foreign
parasites, and easily led astray into wasting their time in blind
alleys and useless activities. (ie. "Lotus Eaters"). It is only our
Defence forces which have held the nation together (until now). After
retirement most of glorious IESMs revert to mean and indulge in Lotus
Eating activities.

If even 50 of our IESM members volunteer to send just 2 emails
(drafted by me) to babus (selected by me) ONCE a MONTH, we will
witness change taking place before our eyes and in our lifetimes.

Screw social media and public battles - those are for Lotus Eating
NGOs. Patriots execute covert actions against precise targets based
on proper intelligence.

For instance, I want 50 volunteers to send an email (which I have
already sent in my own name) to the Babus concerning how 8,000
Ministry of Defence computers were hacked by the Chinese and the babus
are still fighting over who will investigate the matter. No
investigation has taken place and 1000's of Top Secret files of Army
and Assam Rifles were sucked out of MoD computers and these computers
are still connected to the Internet leaking away to our Enemy No.1.

After this I want to send an email about a recent CONFIDENTAIL Cabinet
Secretariat project which re-employs retired babus at per-diems of Rs.
5,000 per day with stay in 4 star hotels in Delhi and regular to=fro
air tickets etc. The names of the people selected are an eye opener.

Sarbajit

On 5/3/12, Mahesh Khera <mkkhera@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> US, Canada, China, Korea, 26 EU nations and 10 other developed nations are
> on a high speed irrevocable growth path of encouraging and implementing
> Telecom, Media and Technology (TMT) infrastructure. This infrastructure has
> been growing their economies as also helping them to lead mostly a
> corruption free life. All this is due to their educated, mature, relatively
> honest and committed political leadership kept in solid monitoring and
> control mode by their people, quick and hawk like media and swift
> judiciary. >> India has already nearly destroyed one of its most essential
> infrastructures, telecom and it now has been brought in line with our every
> other dismal infrastructure like roads, power, education, health,
> transportation, ports, airports and so on. More importantly, a ubiquitous
> TMT infrastructure is a pre-requisite to curb corruption. Lokpals/Lokayuktas
> and honest judiciary can bring to little extent but when combined with e
> governance, a very sharp decline in corruption is achieved in quickest time.
> We have already destroyed both the growth prospects of our GDP as also the
> dreams of controlling corruption.
>
> In the absence of any other means, can RTI be used to gather necessary
> inputs and then combined with media quickly disseminate these to the people
> like a viral letting them know how our political leadership through their
> unintelligent, immature and dishonest commitment to their oaths which they
> all took when they became MPs/MLAs, ministers and so on has been taking the
> country behind while the rest of the world is marching ahead with
> improvements after improvements. Just to cite only one example, South Korea
> a war ravaged nation got its independence much later than India, its one
> company Samsung alone generates more than $ 160 billion of annual revenue
> and just recently beaten Apple to second place in its own backyards in US.
> Look at the policies followed by them and what India has done. We have no
> place to hide our selves from this shame.
>
> Through this single largest forum in the country, more than 10 million as
> per Mr Sarbajit, lets take up what ever we can to raise this awareness like
> a viral among the people of India.
>
> Jai Hind
>
> With warm regards,
>
> Col Mahesh Khera

[RTI INDIA] Re: [HumJanenge] How can we Prevent the On-going Blunders in India - Is RTI Helpful ?

We the citizens of Real India take certain steps immediately:

1. We must stop addressing the Ministers in Centre and in States, addressing them 'Hon'ble'

2. No body including ministers and their relatives not living with them also should get free security staff when they are paid from the common man's contribution to Central and State Taxes.

3. No free passes for air travels and by railways for the family members of the buraucrats.

Hari Goyal

30.05.2012

--- On Sun, 6/5/12, Mahesh Khera <mkkhera@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Mahesh Khera <mkkhera@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] How can we Prevent the On-going Blunders in India - Is RTI Helpful ?
To: "humjanenge@googlegroups.com" <humjanenge@googlegroups.com>
Date: Sunday, 6 May, 2012, 8:24 PM

Hi Sarbajit,

Your approach appears to be very logical as you have first described the rationale and then proposed sending of mails.

The whole of nation fought for Jan Lokpal, politicians made it to be a shameful and disgraceful tamasha as govt appointed Abhishek Manu Singhvi as the chairman of the standing committee deciding Lokpal draft, babus were cunning and our TV channels so eager to sell the ad time made the whole serious issue of corruption as a joke. People got disillusioned. India does not know how to make netas work, babus accountable, police act as Law Enforcement Agencies for all on equality basis and judiciary come out of their self planned sleepy mode and many times deciding the verdict first and trial later.

Your approach of sending carefully drafted mails with startling facts to serving babus from distinguished citizens who have served the nation with distinction and are recognized as respectful people and most of the babus receiving the mails from such a well respected fraternity would get impacted for improvement. I say this because your mails will contain such unquestionable startling facts, if babus act the aim is achieved. If babus choose to ignore and the sordid state continues then these babus would be liable to be taken to court for dereliction of duties even when they have been told about the impending disaster through these mails.

Let your initiative awaken the babudom to their responsibility clearly knowing that the sword hangs on their heads if they do not take action.

With warm regards,

Col Mahesh Khera

From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com>
To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, 4 May 2012 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] How can we Prevent the On-going Blunders in India - Is RTI Helpful ?

Dear Mahesh

Messages from this RTI related forum go out to about 10,000 persons.

The "10 million" reference is about another of my social work
associations which is
not connected with RTI, (but with A) nation building as per Indian
tradition B) Elimination of corrupt persons).

As we can all sense, l and I'm sure nobody will deny it, the Indian
people are sheep who can be easily brainwashed, controlled by foreign
parasites, and easily led astray into wasting their time in blind
alleys and useless activities. (ie. "Lotus Eaters"). It is only our
Defence forces which have held the nation together (until now). After
retirement most of glorious IESMs revert to mean and indulge in Lotus
Eating activities.

If even 50 of our IESM members volunteer to send just 2 emails
(drafted by me) to babus (selected by me) ONCE a MONTH, we will
witness change taking place before our eyes and in our lifetimes.

Screw social media and public battles - those are for Lotus Eating
NGOs. Patriots execute covert actions against precise targets based
on proper intelligence.

For instance, I want 50 volunteers to send an email (which I have
already sent in my own name) to the Babus concerning how 8,000
Ministry of Defence computers were hacked by the Chinese and the babus
are still fighting over who will investigate the matter. No
investigation has taken place and 1000's of Top Secret files of Army
and Assam Rifles were sucked out of MoD computers and these computers
are still connected to the Internet leaking away to our Enemy No.1.

After this I want to send an email about a recent CONFIDENTAIL Cabinet
Secretariat project which re-employs retired babus at per-diems of Rs.
5,000 per day with stay in 4 star hotels in Delhi and regular to=fro
air tickets etc. The names of the people selected are an eye opener.

Sarbajit

On 5/3/12, Mahesh Khera <mkkhera@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> US, Canada, China, Korea, 26 EU nations and 10 other developed nations are
> on a high speed irrevocable growth path of encouraging and implementing
> Telecom, Media and Technology (TMT) infrastructure. This infrastructure has
> been growing their economies as also helping them to lead mostly a
> corruption free life. All this is due to their educated, mature, relatively
> honest and committed political leadership kept in solid monitoring and
> control mode by their people, quick and hawk like media and swift
> judiciary. >> India has already nearly destroyed one of its most essential
> infrastructures, telecom and it now has been brought in line with our every
> other dismal infrastructure like roads, power, education, health,
> transportation, ports, airports and so on. More importantly, a ubiquitous
> TMT infrastructure is a pre-requisite to curb corruption. Lokpals/Lokayuktas
> and honest judiciary can bring to little extent but when combined with e
> governance, a very sharp decline in corruption is achieved in quickest time.
> We have already destroyed both the growth prospects of our GDP as also the
> dreams of controlling corruption.
>
> In the absence of any other means, can RTI be used to gather necessary
> inputs and then combined with media quickly disseminate these to the people
> like a viral letting them know how our political leadership through their
> unintelligent, immature and dishonest commitment to their oaths which they
> all took when they became MPs/MLAs, ministers and so on has been taking the
> country behind while the rest of the world is marching ahead with
> improvements after improvements. Just to cite only one example, South Korea
> a war ravaged nation got its independence much later than India, its one
> company Samsung alone generates more than $ 160 billion of annual revenue
> and just recently beaten Apple to second place in its own backyards in US.
> Look at the policies followed by them and what India has done. We have no
> place to hide our selves from this shame.
>
> Through this single largest forum in the country, more than 10 million as
> per Mr Sarbajit, lets take up what ever we can to raise this awareness like
> a viral among the people of India.
>
> Jai Hind
>
> With warm regards,
>
> Col Mahesh Khera

Re: [rti_india] Re: WILD CHARGES UNDERMINE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION, Dr.JP - President Lok Satta Party, TELLS TEAM ANNA-Lok Satta Media Release Attached- May 27,2012

Dr. J.P. did not "work" in the Government but he served the people through the

instruments of the offices he held before taking voluntary retirement.

From: C K Jam <rtiwanted@yahoo.com>
To: "rti_india@yahoogroups.com" <rti_india@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 28 May 2012 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [rti_india] Re: WILD CHARGES UNDERMINE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION, Dr.JP - President Lok Satta Party, TELLS TEAM ANNA-Lok Satta Media Release Attached- May 27,2012

Mr Hari Goyal,

CORRECTION: He was in the Government. However I cannot vouch

whether he ever "worked" in the Government.

http://arc.gov.in/jp.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayaprakash_Narayan_(Lok_Satta)

RTI wanted

From: Hari Goyal <rtidwarka@yahoo.co.in>
To: lok-satta-party-people+owners@googlegroups.com
Cc: rtidwarka@yahoo.co.in; RTI India <rti_india@yahoogroups.com>; editor@timesofindia.com
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 10:32 AM
Subject: [rti_india] Re: WILD CHARGES UNDERMINE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION, Dr.JP - President Lok Satta Party, TELLS TEAM ANNA-Lok Satta Media Release Attached- May 27,2012

Mr. Srivastava,

Dr. JP requires a few years to understand what the new AZAADI from CORRUPTION of Anna Hazare Team is fighting for. Perhaps he has never worked in any government office.

--- On Sun, 27/5/12, Surendra Srivastava <surendra.srivastava@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Surendra Srivastava <surendra.srivastava@gmail.com>
Subject: WILD CHARGES UNDERMINE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION, Dr.JP - President Lok Satta Party, TELLS TEAM ANNA-Lok Satta Media Release Attached- May 27,2012
To:
Date: Sunday, 27 May, 2012, 4:18 PM

Media Release

(Hyderabad, 27/05/2012)

Wild charges undermine fight against
Corruption, Dr. JP tells Team Anna

Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan today counseled Team Anna not to undermine our collective fight against corruption by making wild allegations in irrational exuberance and in reckless abandon for principle of elementary fairness and natural justice.

Sharply reacting to Team Anna's demand for an inquiry by a panel of judges into allegations against Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and 14 other Union Ministers, Dr. JP said in a media statement that assuming every one is corrupt and every Government decision is tainted with corruption unless otherwise proved is a sure recipe for disaster.

"Nothing can be more illogical and untrue than assuming that everyone in politics is bad and those outside politics are angels.

"Those who fight against corruption must have respect for truth and evidence and not rely on hearsay and speculation."

Dr. JP said the need of the hour today is building institutions and shaping policies that promote integrity and competence and not reviling everybody and creating conditions of anarchy.

"We may or may not like politics and policies of certain leaders. We may even be deeply offended by their approach to certain issues. But it will be a travesty of justice to accuse them of corruption."

Dr. JP recalled that the Lok Satta took a similar stand when reckless allegations were leveled against Team Anna.

Dr. JP said that there is no place for vindictiveness and malicious propaganda in public life, and quoted Mahatma Gandhi as saying that the best and quickest way of getting justice is rendering justice to the opponent. "If we do not extend adversaries the same courtesy that we seek from them, then society becomes a living hell and nation becomes notional."

Dr. JP underlined that there are many men and women in public life who maintain high standards of conduct and probity against heavy odds and named leaders like Dr. Manmohan Singh, Pranab Mukherjee, A. K. Antony, L. K. Advani, Arun Jaitley, Nitish Kumar, Buddadeb Bhattacharya, Navin Patnaik, Narendra Modi, Mamata Banerjee, Prakash Karat, Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy and N. Rangasamy.

Dr. JP asked Team Anna to focus on nation building and not on hitting headlines.

For Lok Satta Party

Regards,

Surendra Srivastava
Volunteer - Lok Satta Aandolan
Tel: +91 22 2377 2279 Email: surendra@loksatta.org.in ,

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Monday, May 28, 2012

[HumJanenge] Fw: [IESM_Group:323] Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande's Open Letter

DEAR CITIZENS,

KNOW HOW WELL OUR GOVT WANTS TO PROTECT & DEFEND INDIA AFTER SPENDING YOUR & MY TAX MONEY & PONDER.

Moron Media might tell you that here is another Gen like Gen VK SINGH, who IS blowing a whistle for his own benefit

Thanks for your time.

Best Wishes.

Parvez Jamasji
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--- On Mon, 28/5/12, CK Sharma <seekayess@gmail.com> wrote:

From: CK Sharma <seekayess@gmail.com>
Subject: [IESM_Group:323] Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande's Open Letter
To: "Members_IESM" <iesm_group@googlegroups.com>
Date: Monday, 28 May, 2012, 10:54 PM

Placed in-line below is an open letter written by Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande,UYSM, AVSM, VSM addressed to elected representatives and leaders of political parties regarding the dangerous and messy state of affairs relating to the defence of the Nation.

    The Lt Gen requests that this letter may be freely forwarded amongst the Veterans community, and also forwarded to the target audience who may be on your mailing lists.

________

An Open Letter to Elected Representatives &
Political Party Leaders

In my personal capacity, I am inviting the awkward distinction of adverting to you regarding the recent defence scams, deficiencies, neglect, delays, procedural tardiness and the like, which are disturbingly dangerous for the defence of the country.

The Air Force strength sanctioned for 42 squadrons has come down to 32, and, at this rate of obsolescence and ageing, will dwindle further to 29 as appears in the media. The MiG 21s have started failing and killing pilots. The Air Force and Naval aviation basic trainer HPT 32 have all been grounded; the next in line, Kiran trainers have dwindled to a handful; the next MiG 21s are already too old.

The Naval pilots are being sent to USA for their basic flying training (TNIE of 8 May 2012), and the Air Force may have to send theirs perhaps to Sweden! Navy's Sea Harrier aircraft strength too has come down to a handful. Our Submarine fleet is not up to challenging the Chinese counterpart's entry into the Indian Ocean, which is the maritime area so vital to our trade, economy and security.

The Army Chief has brought out a list of obsolete, ageing and deficient items in the Army's vital weaponry, ammunition and equipment. What the Army Chief said early this year about the Army, the Air Force and Naval Chiefs had said about their Services two years ago, as reported in the press. Despite the deteriorating and unsatisfactory state of our Armed Forces as reflected by all the Chiefs, every one of them has said that they "will fight with whatever they have". Which, when translated into reality on the battle ground, will mean only one thing: that the soldier (includes naval person and airman) will sacrifice himself and be converted into a martyr by the government, by the political parties and by the people themselves. Does this require any bright brain or complex logic to conclude?

I am making bold to ask you elected representatives, party leaders, government officials and intellectual fraternity a few questions in this regard as a common citizen, as an educated and responsible person and as an old soldier of 35 years service in the defence of our country:

Why have all of you, each one of you, permitted this downslide?

Why have you not raised these issues in the parliament and other relevant for a, or with the elected representatives/ party leaders?

What has been your contribution to arrest this downslide?

Why are you trying to glorify the soldier and his martyrdom more than ensuring healthy, well equipped, well armed, well oiled and well provided defence forces and defence preparedness?

Why is it difficult for you to understand that the cliché of the man behind the gun beng more important than the gun has its limits, beyond which that man behind becomes dead and useless?

Why do you act so negligently as to treat the soldier as gun fodder, to be raised to glorified martyrdom deserving tears and garlands?

What efforts have you made, or are making, to become aware of defence and military preparedness issues to ensure the country's and its people's security, both external and internal, even as our history shows repeatedly that we received frequent beatings precisely because we neglected these very issues?

I know you will find these questions hard to answer. You may even vent your displeasure over my temerity to confront you on the issues. I am posing them as a common citizen, affected citizen, in our so-called democracy. Yet, I do very sincerely and seriously request you to consider the issues and attend to cleansing the muck we have created.

Dharwad     -/signed
     (SC Sardeshpande)__________________

Blue Skies!

Wg Cdr CK Sharma

Treasurer, IESM

Please do NOT Vote for the present Government in the next General Elections,

unless they ensure full welfare of Ex Servicemen!

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[HumJanenge] HC stays CIC order for inquiry against sr officers

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday stayed a Central Information Commission (CIC) order setting up an inquiry against some senior officers of the transparency panel for their alleged failure to reply to an RTI query filed in December 2010.

Asking Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi to repond by November 1, Justice Vipin Sanghi stayed his order setting up an inquiry against Anita Gupta, First Appellate Authority, M C Sharma, retired PIO, S Padmanabha, CPIO and Akash Deep Chakravarti, Deemed PIO and JS(Law) on an application filed by Naveen Kumar Peer under the Right To Information (RTI) Act alleging that the officials have failed to give "satisfactory" reply to his plea.

Justice Sanghi passed the order on the plea of Chakravarti, an IAS officer and presently posted as Deemed PIO and JS(Law) with CIC, through counsel Rajiv Bansal challenging Gandhi's April 19 interim order for the inquiry.

Acting on a RTI plea of Peer alleging that the reply sent by the department was without signature, Gandhi had examined the records and ordered for setting up an inquiry against the CIC officials under section 18 of RTI Act and also summoned them to appear before him.

"A reply from the Legal Cell without any any date and signature or name of person providing the informations states that the appellant (Peer) filed many RTI applications after sending letters which were incoherent....

"The total facts revealed before the commission do not appear to be compatible. The commission is therefore setting up an inquiry under section 18 of RTI Act to uncover the true facts," Gandhi said in the interim order.

As per Chakravarti's petition, "The respondent 1(Gandhi) has in a malafide manner, grossly misused its powers vested in him under the RTI Act and has clearly acted in a manner denying natural justice to petitioner (Chakravarti)...."

He contended that the order was passed without even issuing show-cause notice to him.

Chakravarti claimed that Peer had filed more than 5000 applications under RTI before CIC and said in December 2010 he had written a letter to the commission under the title "all held decisions due to civil writ petitioner number 12210/09 and 13550/2009 against CIC and others with High Court, New Delhi" which was "without clearly describing either the subject matter or the issue concerning him."

According to the petitioner, Peer had also sought an appointment with the concerned CIC officer to offer his suggestions and service which was in the form of letter but not an application. However, the reply was sent to him in February but being aggrieved with the reply, Peer had filed a plea before First Appellate Authority.

Again in April, 2011, another reply was sent to him but Peer filed a second appeal before the information commissioner in May last year.

PTI

http://goo.gl/xTcGl

Re: [HumJanenge] Appointment of CIC in 2010

Mr Sarbajit,

You might be right, but do you have the "records" to prove what you are saying ?

I only mentioned "facts" based on records obtained through RTI.

ANT did not want to be relieved from DoPT till he found a pliable

Jt. Secretary who willingly included his name, in the list sent to the selection committee.

I only wonder why Mr Consul did not become IC and why Ms. Alka Sirohi preferred

UPSC over CIC, although she was one of the 214 applicants.

Maybe, as the old saying goes, we need some exceptions to prove the rule.

ANT may have won the battle for Chief, but MAA ended up getting higher salary and the tag of "guest of state".

Poor ANT was left in the lurch, fighting his case, now in Kerala High Court.

PS: By the way, do you have any idea if CIC is still footing ANT's legal bills ?

RTIwanted

From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com>
To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] Appointment of CIC in 2010

Dear Karira

You are starting at the wrong point in time.

Mr.ANT was slated to become the first C'IC. Unfortunately (for RTI
regime) Mr. Habibullah used his networking with No.10 (Janpath .. and
possibly Downing Street through MI6) to be appointed instead. In fact
the RTI ACt in 2005 was such an important legislation (at the time)
that ANT could not be relieved from DoPT till the Act was
operationalised.

Mr ANT fought it out later with MMA (???) on a point of principle. =
He was senior on all counts.

Sarbajit

On 5/26/12, C K Jam <rtiwanted@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Mr M K Gupta,
>
> Please
> refer: http://www.rti.india.gov.in/cic_decisions/CIC_SM_A_2011_001098_M_83270.pdf
>
> You were given the entire file by DoPT and during the hearing CIC SM
> surmised for you that no shortlisting was done, when IC ANT was elevated to
> CIC (after CIC WH demitted office).
>
> Here is what you actually wanted to know:
>
> The story actually started when CIC WH "resigned" from office to go to J&K
> as its first Chief SIC. That resignation was left in a limbo and had a
> bearing at the time of resignation of IC Omita Paul. Subsequently, when CIC
> WH did demit office he same "suggested procedure" was adopted.
>
> Here is the full story as to how it was done:
>
> http://www.rtiindia.org/forum/61045-cic-may-go-headless-thursday-no-decision-new-chief.html
>
>
> Between 2010 and 2011, I had obtained all documents related to elevation of
> IC ANT to CIC from the CPIO of CIC and PMO. A summary as to what happened
> behind the scenes, is available in post #2 here:
>
> http://www.rtiindia.org/forum/61753-jk-interlocutors-veteran-scribe-researcher-info-commissioner.html
>
>
> In case you want, I have all the documents with me.
>
> When you analyse those documents, you will learn that how childish can 65
> year olds become - just to get the "Chief" tag attached before their
> designation.
>
> Keep a careful watch on the order of appearance of the photos of various ICs
> in the CIC (on the CIC home page). Do homework with their CVs......and you
> can safely predict the order of future Chief IC till Feb 2017 !
>
> RTIwanted

[rti_india] PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF INFORMATION SEEKERS [1 Attachment]

[Attachment(s) from Surendera M. Bhanot included below]

VIA E-MAIL / BY HAND

28 May 2012

Hon'ble

Mr. R.I. Singh, IAS (RETD),

Chief Information Commission,

Punjab State Information Commission,

SCO 84-85, Sector 17-C,

Chandigarh

160017

Respected Sir,

I wish to invite your kind attention towards the resolution passed by the Hon'ble Central Information Commission in its meeting held on 13.9.2011 (copy attached – as downloaded from the website of Central Information Commission) when it resolved that:

"The Central Information Commission expresses regret and takes note of the reported killings of and assault on the RTI users across the country. The Commission underlines the need to take urgent steps by the respective Governments for the safety and protection of the RTI users. The Commission strongly believes that it is the duty and responsibility of the respective Governments to safeguard the life and liberty of the RTI users for which purpose they should invoke the relevant penal provisions for the prevention and detection of such heinous crimes.

2. This Commission, therefore resolves that if it receives a complaint regarding assault or murder of an information seeker, it will examine the pending RTI applications of the victim and order the concerned Department(s) to publish the requested information suo motu on their website as per the provisons of law.

3. This Commission also resolves that it will take proactive steps in ascertaining the status of investigations/prosecutions of the cases involving information seekers and endeavor to have these processes expedited."

The above resolution of the Central Information Commission brought some relief and respite not only to RTI activists, but also to the Information seekers in general, who have suffered tremendously in their struggle for transparency, accountability and reduction in corruption and during which more than 15 have lost their lives and innumerable others have been severely injured and beaten up by vested interests.

As has been reported in the media, recently Mr. H.S. Rathee an RTI Activist from Panchkula was attacked by the PDS depot holders at the behest to the DFSC Panchkula. He was severely beaten up, all his papers were snatched and he was warned of with dire consequences if he continued with his RTI related activities. This matter is being taken up with the Haryana Authorities separately.

Also you honour were approached through a Speed Post Letter that one Mr. Sucha Singh of Village Jasraur (Tehsil Ajnala) was under threat from the PA/FAA/PIO of the Jasraur Co-operative Agriculture Society in complicity with the Ajnala Co-operative Inspector. There may be some action from your end, but the same has not percolate down to the concerned authorities well to initiate some remedial measures to protect the information-seekers.

Mr. Sucha Singh is an activist who had been using the RTI Act extensively ever since 2005, when the Right to Information Act 2005 was introduced. His main area of activity was to make the life of the people of the border Tehsil of Ajnala make easier and free from corruption. His family is also under threat and they suspect a motive.

I therefore request the Hon'ble Commission, through your good self, to take a approach similar to the one adopted by the Central Information Commission, in the Punjab State Information Commission too, and the rights of the Information-Seekers may be protected. Also It is requested that the State Government and the Public Authorities may please be sensitized regarding this.

Thanking you,

Very Cordially yours,

Surendera M. Bhanot

3758 Sector 22-D,

Chandigarh-160022

28 May 2012

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GREETINGS AND WARM REGARDS

Surendera M. Bhanot
- Coordinator, RTIFED, Punjab Chandigarh

- President, RTI Help & Assistance Forum Chandigarh