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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
PRESS RELEASE: for immediate publication Government alleges RTI is being misused and used frivolously, but where is the evidence? Not more than 50 decisions of information commissions in 2008 involved grounds of misuse or frivolousness, shows nationwide study New Delhi, Oct. 31: Can RTI be misused? What should be considered as the misuse of RTI? Amid allegations ... Read More
Dear Madam, Appreciated for your quick reaction and response through e-mail on our telephonic discussion. I am sorry for not sending the appallent/complainants phone/cell nos as the staff were on leave and I myself was out of station for a few days. However, I had instructed the Dy. Registrar to find out the contact nos but ... Read More
PRESS RELEASE: for immediate publication Making use of an ‘overlap’ in RTI Act, information commissioners remand large number of cases back to public authorities, leaving aggrieved applicants high and dry Or is this their way of addressing mounting arrears? Should aggrieved applicants be ‘shuttled’ back to public authorities? New Delhi, Oct30: When Maharashtra Information Commission came ... Read More
Information commissioners reject large number of appeals by quibbling about definition of ‘information’ under RTI Act ‘Why no action has been taken on my file’ – isn’t that a legitimate question under RTI? ICs also question ‘intentions’ of applicants even though law says intentions are immaterial New Delhi, Oct. 29: ‘Information sought does not fall ... Read More
PRESS RELEASE: for immediate publication Information commissioners reject large number of appeals on technical grounds ‘No signature or photocopies of RTI application missing; so the application is rejected’ Technical rejections are badly discouraging information seekers, shows the study of information commissions New Delhi, Oct. 28: Information Commissioners have found a unique way of dealing with ... Read More
