Re: [HumJanenge] Former IB chief among 3 new Information Commissioners at CIC

Selection comittee did not perform its duties honestly at all. they were dutiful to see that  the govt deptts under the  3 selected govt officers/ I.Cs  never denied  the asked rti information  contrary to rti spirit.

If their ministry / deptt /institution  ever denied the information to rti applicants disrespecting the RTI spirit ; those highest officers  are also responsible for the misdeeds of info refusals  absurdly by their junior officers. So such irresponsible officers must never be selected for pious post of the Info Commissioners.

I am quite sure that the dishonest leaders' committee of manmohansingh, chidambaram, sushmaswaraj  never put this test on the candidates; and they absurdly ,illegally , immorally selected the wrongdoers.

I know well ; and whole the world know well that the  officers of  the  3 deptts  under the 3 selected officers/ IC candidates   refused  several times  to provide the bonafide , discloseable  information  to the RTI seekers absurdly killing the RTI laws and spirit.

Therefore the selection committee has committed sin/ crime knowingly , and conspiringly so that the information can be absurdly, forcibly denied to the rti seekers.

so they have snatched the  FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO SPEECH from the citizens.  Sushmaswaraj has  done more wrong because she was not known as dishonest. But now it is evident that not even a single leader in this country is honest.

God save my India.

vijendra singh ,meerut

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Vikram Simha <vikramsimha54@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

 A similar Article But offcourse High lighting Mr Seth Being From Bangalore (or is Residing ?) is Appearing in Todays Deccan Herald.
 Since I Come across Several RTI requests being turned down by PIOs in Banks Mostly on Very Silly issues or Requests which never fall under the Fiduciary Capacity Shelter Clause , It would be a Good Proposition to Keenly Observe this Person if Appointed .
I also Understand by Documents Supplied by CIC itself that IBA which is just an Association has issued letters of caution/instructions to CEO's of all Public Sector Banks of What information should be Parted or not. This Association is not a Public authority
Mr Seth was One of the Managing committee member at that time .
For Breveity i cite one Sample refusal under Fiduciary clause being " the Inward register of RTI Appln's  includes the details of the applications which were submitted by other parties to the CPIO under the act (meaning RTI act)  as this information relates to personal information the disclosure of which has no relationship to any public activity or interest or disclosure of such information would cause unwarrented invasion of the privacy of any individiual  as such information sought cannot be provided
Freinds can offer thier Comments
N vikramsimha , KRIA Koota , #12 Sumeru Sir M N Krishna Rao Road , Basvangudi < Bangalore 560004.


--- On Sat, 25/2/12, sarbajit roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: sarbajit roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com>
> Subject: [HumJanenge] Former IB chief among 3 new Information Commissioners at CIC
> To: "HumJanenge Forum People's Right to Information, RTI Act 2005" <HumJanenge@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Saturday, 25 February, 2012, 10:43 PM

> http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/former-ib-chief-among-3-new-information-commissioners-at-cic/articleshow/12034174.cms
>
> NEW DELHI: The government has shortlisted a former chief of
> Intelligence Bureau, a banker and a former bureaucrat as
> three new
> Information Commissioners at the transparency panel CIC.
>
> Former IB Chief Rajiv Mathur, former Environment Secretary
> Vijai
> Sharma and Syndicate Bank Chairman and Managing Director
> Basant Seth
> have been shortlisted as new faces at the Central
> Information
> Commission which is overburdened with over 20,000 pending
> appeals
> under the Right to Information Act, official sources said.
>
> A panel headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh which
> included Law
> Minister Salman Khurshid and Leader of Opposition Sushma
> Swaraj
> shortlisted the names of these people recently, they said.
>
> According to the RTI Act, the complete strength of the
> transparency
> panel is a Chief Information Commissioner and 10 Central
> Information
> Commissioners. As of now there are just five Information
> Commissioners
> leaving a shortage of five.
>
> A formal announcement on the appointment would be made
> shortly, they
> said.
>
> Mathur, a 1972 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, has
> served IB
> for nearly three decades including 15 years in Washington.
> He took
> over the reigns of the agency in January 2009, before
> retiring on
> December 31, 2010.
>
> Sharma, a 1974 batch IAS officer, from Uttar Pradesh cadre,
> was
> secretary in Union Environment Ministry before his
> superannuation in
> December 2010.
>
> He held number of positions in the state including State
> Housing
> Secretary, State Environment Secretary and Chairman of State
> Pollution
> Control Board among others.
>
> Seth who is the CMD of Syndicate Bank, Bangalore has held
> senior
> positions in Small Industries Development Bank and Bank of
> India.
>

--
Vijendra Singh
E-19, Janakpuri,
Ajanta Colony, garh road,
Meerut-250004
UP

[HumJanenge] CIC Press release: 3 new ICs administered oath of office on 01.03.2012

No. of ICs has gone up to 9 today.

Re: [HumJanenge] VICTORY: Lame excuses wont wash in RTI : P&H HC

Is it possible to get full copy of this Order or pl provide link to get it.
Thanks ,
N.Varma

On 1 March 2012 21:32, sarbajit roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:

CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana high court has made it clear that
excuses like "shortage of staff", "extra work" cannot be accepted as
grounds for declining information under RTI Act.

While pronouncing the order, Justice Augustine George Masih observed,
"If such excuses are accepted, the RTI Act would become redundant and
ineffective, and would frustrate the objective for which it has been
enacted. Such internal administrative reasons cannot be treated as a
defense for not supplying information."

The ruling has come in the wake of a writ petition filed against an
order passed by the state information commission (SIC), Punjab, on
June 14, 2010. SIC had imposed a penalty of Rs 25,000 against the
state public information officer of Ludhiana Improvement Trust, Lal
Singh Tiwana, for a delay of more than five months in supplying
information to RTI applicant Gurwinderjeet Singh from Ludhiana.

Justice Masih rejected all reasons put forth by Tiwana and concurred
with those given by SIC for imposing a penalty on the information
officer for delay in information to the complainant.

In his petition filed against the SIC orders, Tiwana had stated that
Ludhiana Improvement Trust was functioning with only 40% of sanctioned
staff strength and there was a heavy rush of public for registration
of plots on the basis of original price under a scheme which was
expiring. He had argued that additional work of census was being done
by the staff, which resulted into delay in supplying information to
the complainant.

Justice Masih, however, accepted the petitioner's contention, that
although the RTI application was received in January 2010, the
petitioner-information officer had joined the trust on transfer on May
11, 2010, and therefore, was not responsible for the delay on the part
of his predecessor. Accordingly, Justice Masih held that the
petitioner-information officer has to be imposed a penalty at the rate
of Rs 250 per day for a period of 75 days, amounting to Rs 18,750.

--
Narayan Varma
56B Mittal Tower,
210 Nariman Point
Mumbai 400 021
RTI PCGT helpline 09322882288           
 my cell   09821096052

[HumJanenge] VICTORY: Lame excuses wont wash in RTI : P&H HC

CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana high court has made it clear that
excuses like "shortage of staff", "extra work" cannot be accepted as
grounds for declining information under RTI Act.

While pronouncing the order, Justice Augustine George Masih observed,
"If such excuses are accepted, the RTI Act would become redundant and
ineffective, and would frustrate the objective for which it has been
enacted. Such internal administrative reasons cannot be treated as a
defense for not supplying information."

The ruling has come in the wake of a writ petition filed against an
order passed by the state information commission (SIC), Punjab, on
June 14, 2010. SIC had imposed a penalty of Rs 25,000 against the
state public information officer of Ludhiana Improvement Trust, Lal
Singh Tiwana, for a delay of more than five months in supplying
information to RTI applicant Gurwinderjeet Singh from Ludhiana.

Justice Masih rejected all reasons put forth by Tiwana and concurred
with those given by SIC for imposing a penalty on the information
officer for delay in information to the complainant.

In his petition filed against the SIC orders, Tiwana had stated that
Ludhiana Improvement Trust was functioning with only 40% of sanctioned
staff strength and there was a heavy rush of public for registration
of plots on the basis of original price under a scheme which was
expiring. He had argued that additional work of census was being done
by the staff, which resulted into delay in supplying information to
the complainant.

Justice Masih, however, accepted the petitioner's contention, that
although the RTI application was received in January 2010, the
petitioner-information officer had joined the trust on transfer on May
11, 2010, and therefore, was not responsible for the delay on the part
of his predecessor. Accordingly, Justice Masih held that the
petitioner-information officer has to be imposed a penalty at the rate
of Rs 250 per day for a period of 75 days, amounting to Rs 18,750.

[HumJanenge] Space department denies information to Nair

Bangalore
Space department denies information to Nair

The Department of Space (DoS) has declined to provide key documents
sought by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G
Madhavan Nair to know the basis on which the government debarred him
and three other retired space scientists in January from holding
official
posts.

"Taking shelter under a specific clause of the Right to Information
(RTI) Act, the DoS withheld vital information on the reports of the
two committees that probed the Antrix-Devas deal and resulted in
action against me and three other colleagues," a disappointed Nair
said.

A week after the government blacklisted the four noted scientists,
Nair filed an application under the RTI Act, 2005 with the DoS and
ISRO, seeking details of the high level team that recommended action
against him and three other technocrats.

"Though it is mandatory under the RTI Act to furnish documents I have
asked for within 30 days of my application, I received a reply from
DoS' RTI officer Tuesday repeating all that is already in the public
domain but not the specific information, including documents and
notings pertaining to the recommendation for action against us," Nair
asserted.

The three other blacklisted scientists are former scientific secretary
A Bhaskarnarayana, ISRO's former satellite centre director KN Shankara
and former Antrix Corporation executive director KR Sridharamurthi.

Expressing inability to share the specific information, the official
wrote to Nair that as per the rule 8(1)(H) of the RTI Act, he could
not furnish the relevant documents as they pertain to investigation
and prosecution of the offenders.

"It is unfortunate that I have been denied my legitimate right to know
what offence I had committed for such an action. Instead of responding
to my specific queries on the probe reports and reasons for annulling
the Devas contract, I have been given the terms of reference under
which the two committees investigated the deal and that their reports
were on the official websites for reference," Nair pointed out.

Without naming the DoS secretary (K. Radhakrishnan), who is also
chairman of the state-run ISRO and secretary of the Space Commission,
Nair said under the guise of a particular clause and section, the
department was making mockery of the RTI Act as its response showed
someone was hiding facts, which would otherwise expose him.

"The DoS has refused to divulge information on the issues pertaining
to the Devas agreement, approval cycles and correspondence that took
place among the concerned. It's an act of cowardice on the part of the
department to suppress facts and deny justice to a former official who
also held the same post and worked in the organisation for over four
decades," Nair observed.

Asked on his next move to seek justice, Nair said he would consult
legal experts before approaching the chief information commissioner
for evidence, including specific documents, file notings and names of
those who took arbitrary decisions to cancel the Devas deal and accuse
them of wrong doing.

"Though I have better things to do, I will spare time to take the
matter to logical conclusion as we have been held guilty without being
heard to defend or explain our role in the spectrum deal," Nair added.

The 68-year rocket scientist is away at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala
till Sunday and plans to take up the legal battle on return to the
city on Monday.

[HumJanenge] IESM's RTI "tent pegs" "C-I-C's retirement home stolen from war widows

http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_presidents-4498-sq-ft-retirement-home-is-spread-over-2-lakh-sq-ft_1657085

C-I-C == Commander In Chief

President's 4,498 sq ft retirement home is spread over 2 lakh sq ft

Although the former president of India is entitled to live in a house
admeasuring not more than 4,498 sq ft, land admeasuring 2,61,000 sq ft
has been allotted for the post-retirement accommodation in Khadki of
president Pratibha Patil.

Justice for Jawans (JFJ) Right to Information (RTI) activist Anup
Awasthi and Indian Ex-servicemen Movement (IESM) found the facts
through an RTI query.

According to the reply to the RTI requisition sent to the President of
India Office, the President's Emoluments and Pension Act, 1951, and
the rules framed there under President's Pension Rule, 1962, govern
these matters.

As per the rules, "A place where Government owned accommodation is
allotted to a retired President, the size of the residence shall be
comparable to a residence allotted to a Minister in the Union Council
of Ministers and if the highest type of Government residence available
at a particular place is less in size than a residence allotted to a
Minister in the Union Council of Ministers, the highest type of
accommodation available at that place shall be allotted to the ex-
President. At present, a minister is entitled to a plinth area of the
bungalow as 4498 sq ft."

The RTI reply further states, "where suitable Government residence is
not available for allotment to a retired President, the size of the
residence to be taken on lease to be provided to a retired President
shall have a living area not exceeding 2,000 sq ft."

Col (retd) Suresh Patil of JFJ had earlier written a letter on
September 14 to the president inquiring about the possession of the
property in Khadki to which the reply received was that the land is on
lease and will remain the property of Defence Estates.

According to the reply sent by the president's secretariat, "The old
grant property is a defence land given on lease and the lease has
expired. It was resumed by the defence estate officer after following
the due procedure for use of residential premises for the president on
her retirement as per the entitlement of a former president of India."

Patil and his associates objected to even the ongoing construction on
the land. "Why are new constructions carried out in the land when
there is adequate government accommodation already available in the
cantonments? These constructions are illegal which has also resulted
to the felling of trees in the area without the permission of the
forest department," Awasthi said.

IESM, Maharashtra convenor Ravindra Pathak said that this land should
have been allotted to the war widows and to build an old age home.

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