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Col NR Kurup wrote from Kerala: I am surprised to read that one Sri Fazaluddin, Information Commissioner of Kerala is graded as No.1 and my friend Sri Palat Mohandas, SIC, Kerala also graded quite high. Sri Fazaluddin was an IC for short period from 24-5-2006 to 16-12-2008. I am not aware of any case decided by ... Read More
PRESS RELEASE: for immediate publication Information Commissioners dispose of cases saying information has already been provided; applicants say never got the information Nationwide, 60% appellants/complainants say they never got the information despite decisions by information commissioners that they had! Where should the aggrieved appellants go? New Delhi, October 27: Dayanand Pandey (09955325713) of Garhwa district of Jharkhand made an ... Read More
PRESS RELEASE: for immediate publication Information commissions dispose of cases, but orders are not complied with, shows first ever nationwide study of information commissions Poor compliance of orders shows ICs should start conducting compliance hearings New Delhi, October 26: Hari Dev filed an RTI application at Delhi Development Authority (DDA) asking whether or not 23 people had been ... Read More
Dear Shri Kejriwal: Uttarakhand Information Commission welcomes the release of the Draft Report on the Functioning of Information Commissions across the Country by the Public Cause Research Foundation (PCRF). While this Commission has no comments to offer on the (i) Overall Public Satisfaction, (ii) Effectiveness and (ii) Deterrent Impact metrics, it would like to submit its ... Read More
Dear Sir, We are extremely grateful to your response. We completely agree with you that there is an overlap in the law. Section 19(1) of RTI Act and section 18(1)(c) and 18(1)(e) talk of exactly similar situations i.e. if a person does not receive any response or receives an unsatisfactory response within prescribed time period, he can ... Read More
Dear Sri Kejriwal, Thanks for your communication of the 24th instant. Sorry for this delayed response as I was away from hqs. That there exist certain grey areas as well as some overlap in the Act, about that there hasn't been any doubt at all. However, like all enactments of first generation, especially a statute with clear emphasis ... Read More
How many times have you heard of a citizen nominating a government official for a national award?
Sounds like a rare thing in a country where administrative incompetence and corruption is more of a rule rather than an exception.
Usha Rani, the former District Collector of Mahboobnagar district, Andhra Pradesh, however, has ... Read More
Tukaram Shankar Gedam (48), a tribal of Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, always knew how non-tribal people were getting government employment reserved for Scheduled Tribes on the basis of false certificates, but couldn't do anything about it.
The scam thrived on ignorance of most members the tribal society.
The circumstances changed in 2002 when ... Read More
Have you ever bothered to read date of expiry on your daily bread? If you see them written in bold, it is thanks to Tek Chand Hingorani. A retired central government officer from Lodhi Colony in Delhi, he has made a significant impact through his RTI crusade. This is why he has been nominated for ... Read More
