RIGHT TO INFORMATION


The 100th week of RTI Katta celebrated last week in Pune has empowered citizens to courageously and precisely file RTI applications   Two youngsters, studying in a Pune college (names withheld on request), had won scholarship of Rs25,000 each for their brilliant academic...

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IANS 06 November 2015
With the Central Information Commission facing a huge pendency of cases, the Delhi High Court on Friday directed the centre to finalise the selection of three central information commissioners within six weeks.   "The selection process that has already been commenced vide...

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Despite RTI activists across Maharashtra taking up the cause of last week’s shameful attack on this Latur-based activist, appealing to the Chief Minister to take action against culprits, nothing has moved.    What does one get in return of filing 78 complaints with the Zilla Parishad...

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Namdeo Sable, an undertrial prisoner in Beed Central Jail, was murdered. His wife took obtained evidence from RTI and went to the High Court, which has directed the state government to pay her compensation of Rs5 lakh with 9% interest   The power of Right to Information (RTI) is...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 October 2015
NCPRI says the National RTI convention organised by the CIC on 16th and 17th of October 2015 has become an exclusive affair, which is being restricted by the central government under frivolous ‘security’ concerns   The National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) and...

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CIC’s trick to reject second appeals and complaints on flimsy grounds to bring down pending RTI cases to 10% has been exposed   Vijai Kumar, took over as the Central Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) in June 2015. Suddenly, the pendency of complaints and second appeals in his...

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IANS 12 October 2015
Several months since his controversial appointment as the FTII chairman, BJP member and television personality Gajendra Chauhan is yet to visit his office, a RTI query revealed here on Monday.   There is a lack of clarity even on the actual date of appointment of Chauhan as the Film...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 October 2015
According to an RTI reply received by Anil Galgali from MMRDA, the underground metro line costs three times more than the elevated one   The Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA), which is setting up a network of metro lines across the region may end up...

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As per DoPT guidelines, it is now binding on PIOs to provide certified copies of documents, if requested by the applicant and also to provide detailed reasons for denial of information    The Department of Personnel & Training- DoPT has issued detailed guidelines for Public...

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Thanks to RTI activist Vivek Velankar, the Maharashtra SCIC recently ordered toll contracts and toll collections to be put up on the website, but strangely data for Expressway and Mumbai Entry Point are still kept a secret   The contentious issue of toll collection in Maharashtra that...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 September 2015
As per a reply received under the RTI, between 2 July 2014 and 21 August 2015, when there was no Lokayukta, the office of Maharashtra Lokayukta and Upa-Lokayuktas received 7,243 new cases   For over 400 days when there was no Lokayukta appointed in Maharashtra the office of the...

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Inspection of files under Section 4 of the RTI Act has revealed that the students’ strike may have more to do with deep corruption and financial irregularities in FTII than with the appointment of a new Chairman   Of course, one does not need a Right to Information (RTI) document...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 September 2015
During 2013 to 2015, Senate members like Jitendra Awhad, Prakash Binsale, Praveen Darekar, Raj Shroff, Charan Singh Sapra and Shriram Dandekar have not even attended a single meeting, reveals a reply received under RTI   Mumbai University, one of the most prominent universities in...

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With the government mum on the report submitted by the three-member committee appointed by the I&B Ministry, and students now taking the extreme step of fast unto death, RTI activist demands transparency   The 90-day old stir of students from the Film and Television Institute of India...

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An activist, who has been fighting a lone battle to bring Mumbai International Airport under the RTI Act, continues to be stonewalled by postponements for four years    This is a classic case of how a decision by the Central Information Commission (CIC) is stonewalled by the vested...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 August 2015
Maharashtra government, which aims to set up 25 to 30 private universities across the state, has granted permission to just one degree college over the past two years, reveals reply received under RTI   While Maharashtra aims to set up 25 to 30 private universities across the...

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Anna Hazare speaks to Moneylife on why political parties are unified in opposing RTI Act being applied on them. Excerpts from the interview   Moneylife: The centre has filed an affidavit opposing the demand that political parties be brought under the ambit of the Right to...

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Replies received under RTI by Commodore Lokesh Batra (retd) reveal how the President’s Secretariat and even PMO operate like a post office, simply forwarding the petitions and letters sent by top ranking officials on One Rank One Pension (OROP)    The One Rank One Pension (OROP)...

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Sidhartha Dutta (IANS) 17 August 2015
The RTI reply revealed that the expenditure for hotel rooms and air travel was Rs.30 lakh ($46,000) each ($5,750 per head), while Rs.25 lakh was spent on taxi rides, Rs.6 lakh went for daily perks   An eight-member delegation led by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan...

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IANS 03 August 2015
Mumbai's public bus service, popularly known by its acronym BEST, is running into losses of Rs.2.26 crore per day mainly due to declining patronage and high operating costs, an RTI query revealed on Monday.   Considered the lifeline of Mumbai, BEST - with a fleet of around 2,600 buses...

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