Re: [HumJanenge] Fwd: Press Release: NCPRI & Amendment to RTI Rules

Thanks Ashish, Great to have you back online.

Lets see what emerges from this.

1) That NCPRI is submitting their comments on amendments to RTI Rules
to DoPT via the NAC. This confirms that device of Office Memorandum
was used to facilitate haramis like NCPRI and deny ordinary
public/citizens opportunity of direct participation in public
processes..

2) That NCPRI's comments are not in the public domain because the
public of India would then come to know what (foreign financed)
haramis they truly are. Of course in a few days they will publicly
circulate a doctored document which passes off as their response.

3) Unlike I who can publicly declare that I have not taken even 1
paise (in any currency Indian or foreign ) in funds for my RTI and/or
social work from anybody, the NCPRI high table named in this press
release is literally packed with people who are hugely financed by
foreign interests and intelligence agencies. Wajahat Habibullah, Aruna
Roy, Shekhar Singh, Venkatesh Nayak, Maja Daruwalla, etc etc. It is
therefore no surprise that they must hide under Sonia Gandhi's 'pallu'
to destroy the RTI Act and movement or act at her behest.

4) Persons like Maja Daruwalla and Venkatesh Nayak of CHRI now have no
credibility to exhort / lecture us on transparency in participation,
when CHRI itself routes its comments through NAC and not directly. In
the limited time left, I hope that CHRI has a change of heart and
files an independent response directly.to DoPT making substantive
objections..

5) This document proves conclusively that Mr Dunu Roy is very well
known to Mr Habibullah and Venkatesh Nayak. The public of India is
truly grateful to the Delhi Development Authority for filing that Writ
which exposed this foreign financed corrupt gang of spies and got
struck down the CIC's completely anti-people and illegal Management
Regulations.

6) Now being completely exposed, Mr Habibullah is back with his gang
of spies to bring the illegal CIC Management Regulations in through
the backdoor of DoPT's Rules via the NAC and harass the people of
India (for whom incidentally he has absolute contempt).

The game is now truly afoot.

Sarbajit

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:44 PM, ashish kr1965 <ashishkr1965@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Rakshita Swamy <ncpri.india@gmail.com>
> To: Annapurna Dixit <adixit@nic.in>
>
> Dear Ma'am please find below the summary of the proceedings today
>
> Press Release
> NCPRI & IM4C Consultation on Pre-Legislative Processes and Amendment to RTI
> Rules
>
> 22 December 2010: The National Campaign for Peoples Right to Information
> (NCPRI), in collaboration with Inclusive Media for Change and others,
> organized a meeting on the pre-legislative consultation process. Members of
> civil society organizations——CHRI,
> PRS, JOSH, ADR, FMP, SNS, CPR, Pardarshita, Sangat, Hazards Centre, NFIW,
> Greenpeace and others participated in the discussion. Former CIC Wajahat
> Habibullah, retired chief justice A P Shah of the Delhi High Court and
> social activists——Aruna Roy, Shekhar Singh, Dunu Roy, Annie Raja, Nikhil
> Dey, Kamla Bhasin, Maja Daruwala, Venkatesh Nayak, Lokesh Batra participated
> in the consultation. Members from the media also participated in the
> discussion.
>
> Pre-Legislative Consultation Process
>
> There was a general agreement that the absence of any secure and robust
> mechanisms of pre-legislative consultation is one of the weaker links of our
> political and policy process that requires to be redressed. Therefore there
> was an appreciation of the present initiative and a mandate to take it
> forward.
>
> There was a general appreciation of the suggestions made in the approach
> paper (attached). Besides, the following additional suggestions came up:
>
> 1. Need to link existing institutions like the NHRC, NMC, SC
> Commission, NWC etc. with the proposed consultative process so as to avoid
> duplication
> 2. We should focus not just on disclosures and opening for giving
> inputs, but also on mandatory deliberations that ensure that these inputs
> get due attention.
> 3. Need to pay equal attention to subsidiary legislation and the rule
> framing at the level of the states, for that is where much of the tinkering
> takes place.
> 4. Certain kinds of legislations should be referred to the local bodies
> set up under the 73rd and 74th amendments.
>
>
> It was further suggested:
>
> • There should be a provision for referendum for a certain types of
> legislation keeping in mind the social realities that define the day-to-day
> lives of a diverse population like that of India.
> • Interests of various sections of society affected by laws and
> lawmaking procedures should be kept in mind while making these legislations.
> • All such legislations need to be supplemented by some changes in the
> existing legislative process, like sharing more information with the MPs,
> adding research capacity of the MPs and MLAs, expanded time period and
> improved mechanism for receiving public feedback, reducing the tendency to
> bypass committees and ending procedural adhocism.
>
> There was a brief discussion about how to give effect to these proposals for
> strengthening pre-legislative consultations and there were three broad
> suggestions that emerge:
>
> 1. Improving existing rules and procedures such as Parliamentary Rules
> of Business, greater recourse to `Notes on Clauses', amendments in circular
> from Cabinet Secretariat etc.
> 2. Strengthening of the RTI Act 2005.
> 3. Perhaps even consider drafting a separate law that brings together
> all such provisions.
>
> The broad consensus was strongly in favour of a robust, open and inclusive
> pre-legislative consultation process. These discussions will be taken
> forward in forums and meetings to be convened over the next few months. It
> was agreed that multiple methods would be used to open up the process like
> demanding rigorous implementation of mandatory provisions of the RTI Act,
> i.e., Section 4 and seeking changes to DoPT/PMO circulars to allow for
> consultations on proposed legislations along the lines of the existing
> inter-ministerial consultations.
>
> Proposed amendments: RTI Rules
>
> In the post lunch session, the NCPRI recommendations made to the DoPT
> through the NAC working group on Transparency and Accountability were
> presented, discussed and endorsed by all present.
>
> It was also proposed that a further discussion was required on the open and
> transparent process for selection of Information Commissioners (ICs). It was
> decided by the group that while these recommendations will be sent to the
> DoPT, an extension will be sought from the Government of India so that
> detailed recommendations could be made on the procedures of appointment of
> ICs as well as rules for the functioning of Information Commissions.
>
> For more information contact: Rakshita Swamy 9818838588
> (ncpri.india@gmail.com)
>