RIGHT TO INFORMATION


Last year, Narendra Modi ridiculed the PMO for denying information to a citizen. Will his office be open to seriously dealing with RTI applications, considering that his home state Gujarat does not have a good record?   People have given a huge mandate to one single party and soon a...

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Present case in Maharashtra where voter's name were deleted is not as genuine as it is being made out to be. This shows mistrust on citizens and totally absolves the district election officer or election registrations officers who have acted irresponsibly. This should call for citizen...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 May 2014
Sushilkumar Shinde and his family is the topmost VIP family in the state with 66 security personnel deployed to protect them, reveals a reply received under the RTI About 812 police officers and security personnel have been deployed for the security of 84 VIPs in Maharashtra, reveals a...

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The case of Pune-based women constable Jayashree Mane, who was slapped by her senior male colleague for using RTI, continues to be in limbo as the department has yet to admit the FIR. Taking a serious note of the incident the National Commission for Women has ordered an enquiry into the...

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Pune’s lady constable Jayashree Mane was slapped by her senior male colleague as he had to vacate his 'illegally occupied' official 'room'. Mane has filed over 200 RTI applications in a bid to cleanse the irregularities and corruption in the Pune police department. Will she get the justice?

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On 31 January 2011, the postal department stopped under certificate of posting or UCP facility. However, two months after, in March 2011, the  Collector of Pune sent a document to Baravkar through UCP! Over a month ago, Pune-based Right to Information (RTI) activist Vilas Baravkar...

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Over Rs20,000 crore from the MP LADS were disbursed since a decade, but there are no records. The funds allotted for MPs to use for providing drinking water, public health, education, sanitation, sports and roads are either unused or misused The Member of Parliament (MP) Local Area...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 April 2014
The Nuclear Power Corp must display suo moto the Safety Analysis and Site Evaluation Report of KKNP Plant I & II as per Section 4(1)(c) of the RTI Act, the CIC said. This is the 199th in a series of important RTI judgements given by former Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi

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Almost 11 out of 13 ‘nominated’ members on Citizen Committee of Pune Tree Authority poor educational qualifications, reveals inspection carried out under Section 4 of the RTI Act. But all of them have strong political links Tree conservation in Maharashtra has been strengthened with the...

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Information Commissioners usually ask PIOs to lodge an FIR in the police station in case a file goes missing. In one case under the RTI, the CIC asked the PIO to ‘reconstruct’ the missing file to facilitate justice to a doctor allegedly involved in a criminal case When Jugal Kishore, a...

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Naming 78 people in his stamp paper suicide note, Vilas Baravkar alleges harassment by police, politicians and some of his family members. His RTI applications, however, reveal some ‘vague’ information that he had asked for, say RTI experts Pune has the dubious distinction across the...

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Pratibha Patil’s former secretary, who is Information Commissioner in her home town Amravati, strangely has got the additional charge of Pune Maharashtra, which claims to be the most literate state as far as Right to Information (RTI) Act is concerned, is paradoxically much behind in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 March 2014
According to an activist, there is no provision for transfer of information commissioners under the RTI Act and yet Maharashtra CIC Ratnakar Gaikwad transferred three SICs in 2012   Right to Information (RTI) activist Anil Galgali has alleged that Maharashtra Chief Information...

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We all witness halting of traffic when all grades of ministers, with red beacon lights on their cars and cavalcade of several vehicles, pass through the road. RTI reveals this is illegal! The RTI activist also raised the issue before the Human Rights Commission Most urban cities have one...

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A six year tenacious battle by Delhi-based RTI activist Commodore (retd) Lokesh Batra has resulted in the government facilitating eIPO for payment of RTI fees in 2,496 central government offices Since 22 March 2013, only Indians abroad had the facility of paying Right to Information...

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In a recent RTI filed by an activist from Jammu, it has been revealed that blood donated by people was being discarded because of mismanagement by blood banks and hospitals. This, however is not the first time. Time for audit of blood banks? An upcoming blood donation drive to be held...

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The SOS Balgram in Pune shares its compound wall with a lush green golf course. Last week Maharashtra government issued an order for closure of the Balgram citing maladministration. Is somebody eying the 9-acres prime land of the Balgram? For three decades, the unique Balgram, Save Our...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 January 2014
A case where a Thane RTO PIO had ordered an RTI applicant to fork over a whopping Rs55.44 lakh pertaining to auto-rickshaw permits was overturned by the chief information commissioner, Ratnakar Gaikwad and he ordered the state transport commissioner to disclose information The chief...

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In compliance of the Calcutta High Court order, ministry of personnel has asked all ministries and government departments to take appropriate action regarding revealing identities of applicants to third or private parties Recent cases of two Right to Information (RTI) activists highlight...

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Pune’s traditional katta culture, wherein like-minded people gather informally to chat in public places, has now, RTI, as the new topic of discussion Although Maharashtra is one of the states with a large number of users of Right to Information (RTI) Act, knowledge and information about...

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