RIGHT TO INFORMATION


Umesh Mohurle, an employee of the postal department in Gondia, near Nagpur, who allegedly committed fraud to the tune of Rs1 crore and is accused of tampering with official information, is under investigation. A complaint has been filed with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). This...

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Sexual harassment and crimes against women continue to dent our country’s image, but what does one say when the National Women’s Commission’s itself is accused of indifference to a woman staffer’s petition alleging sexual harassment by Deputy Secretary VVB Raju? Worse, the accused is the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 July 2017
The Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) was created to rehabilitate slum-dwellers in Mumbai and make the city slum-free. However, almost 80% of the officers and staff at SRA are non-governmental and work on contract basis, reveals a reply received under the Right to Information (RTI)...

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Sidhartha Dutta (IANS) 03 July 2017
In six out of eight northeastern states, the Modi government failed to provide even a single LPG connection under its flagship scheme Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY).   The Yojana is an initiative on whose success the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rode to power in Uttar Pradesh,...

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I regularly receive emails seeking advice on filing RTI for procuring copies of answer sheets. Recently, a student wrote, “I am a student of Guwahati University, Assam. I am doing 5 years B.A. L.L.B. Hons. and I am in the 10th semester, that is the final semester.    “The problem is...

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While the nation mourned India’s defeat in the Indo-Pak Champions Trophy Finals at Oval Ground in London, the Central Information Commission (CIC) on 16th June as well as on 9th June 2017, questioned the opaqueness of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in not revealing...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 June 2017
A Munsif Magistrate Court at Kishangarh in Rajasthan convicted senior activist Nikhil Dey, Naurtibai, Ram Karan, Babulal and Chotu Lal Malakar, who are fighting corruption using the Right to Information (RTI) Act. All the activists are associated with Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 June 2017
It has become a routine now for Mumbai University to delay declaration of results of the examinations conducted by it for its various courses. In 2016, for the first semester almost 30% of the results declared were beyond the maximum stipulation of 45 days. For the second semester, the ratio...

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Can a Central Information Commissioner impose a penalty as per his whims and fancies? Early this week, the Delhi High Court slapped a show cause notice on the Central Information Commission (CIC), seeking an explanation for arbitrarily imposing a Rs5,000 penalty on a Public Information...

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The prime objective of the Right to Information (RTI) Act is to bring in transparency and thereby root out corruption. However, the Maharashtra State Information Commission office at Nashik has the dubious distinction of its desk officer seeking a bribe of Rs15,000 to dispose of an appeal in...

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Neither lodging a first information report (FIR) with the police nor denying information to a citizen under Right to Information Act (RTI) under the pretext of a missing file is acceptable. Last week’s order by the Central Information Commission (CIC) puts the onus further on the Public...

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While pulling up the Indian Air Force (IAF) for lack of accountability, the Central Information Commission (CIC) had dismissed a record 1,282 second appeals filed by an applicant under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. A former Air Force officer Wing Commander, Sanjeev Sharma, filed second...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 April 2017
In a landmark order, the Maharashtra Chief Information Commissioner (SCIC) has asked public authorities to maintain an e-register for all Public Information Officers (PIOs) giving all details of the application filed under Right to Information (RTI) Act. This order was passed following a...

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Another Right to Information (RTI) activist was brutally murdered on Sunday, making it the 16th such murder in Maharashtra and 65th in the country since 2010, besides assaults on nearly 400 activists.   In the latest fatal assault, Pune-based Suhas Haldankar, who exposed...

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Mumbai, An RTI query on Thursday revealed that a huge plot of acquired land here was allegedly 'gifted' to the Tata Group at throwaway rates by the previous Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) government in Maharashtra.   The land measuring 32,182.20 sq. metres was given to the...

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The government has issued a circular on 31 March 2017 giving draft rules, which it is proposing for the Right to Information (RTI) Act.  Most citizens and media have shown considerable concern at these and there has been a feeling that the government is trying to emasculate the RTI Act. From...

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The Centre on Wednesday dubbed as "misleading" media reports on the Right to Information (RTI) Act rules, saying no change has been effected in either the fee structure or the word limit for the RTI queries.   The government said it is committed to ensure full and easy implementation...

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The Maharashtra State Chief Information Commissioner (SCIC) has directed all public authorities in Maharashtra to upload complete information of all welfare schemes on their respective websites before 30 April 2017. Those public authorities which do not have any public welfare schemes should...

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The Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), the nodal agency for implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, has chosen to be secretive regarding information on the selection process of information commissioners (IC), even though activists had successfully fought to make the...

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Notwithstanding the myriad opinions and interpretations of several court judgments on whether cooperative societies come under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, a recent landmark judgment of the Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court reiterates that urban cooperative banks, cooperative...

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