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Dear friends and fellow-activists, Thank you for your responses to our draft report evaluating the performance of Information Commissioners. The large number of bouquets and brickbats that we have received show that there is enormous public interest. We salute your refusal to accept our opinion blindly; healthy dissent and debate is not only inevitable, but essential ... Read More
AN ANALYSIS OF THE REPORT OF PCRF
(AUTHORS OF RTI AWARDS) - FLAWED LOGIC AND SPECIOUS CONCLUSIONS
Lately, the Media was flooded with stories about the functioning of Information Commissioners all over the country based upon analysis done by a group going by the name ... Read More‘Missing’ files may not remain missing if information commissioners fix responsibility, show insights from nationwide study of ICs ICs have strong grounds to order police enquiries against officials that hide behind ‘missing files’ Compensation and financial penalties are not enough to deal with ‘lost’ public records Public Records Acts also allow fixing responsibility New Delhi, Nov. 11: ... Read More
Press Statement RTI Awards Secretariat denies it has “congratulated” some information commissioners for being “best” or “topping the rankings” of information commissions … and clarifies that rankings, released by the Secretariat to the media on October 21, 2009, are interim rankings, subject to change in the coming days; final rankings will be decided by the ... Read More
Express News Service Posted online: Friday , Oct 30, 2009 at 0647 hrs Kolkata : Till date, activists in Bengal had been complaining about the poor implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act. But today, Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) also admitted that the state is “quantitatively lagging behind many states”. “I must admit that throughout the ... Read More
