Re: [HumJanenge] Re: Wajahat Habibullah is biggest traitor of RTI

Thanks dear Kudz for this valuable info.
regards
Dr jn sharma

On 12/15/10, vishal kudchadkar <vishal.kudchadkar@gmail.com> wrote:
> To SDS, for information
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:30 AM, vishalkudchadkar <v_kudz@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101215/jsp/nation/story_13302908.jsp
>>
>> The National Advisory Council is set to oppose the Centre's proposal to
>> dilute the Right to Information Act through a new set of rules.
>>
>> A meeting of the panel's working group on transparency, accountability and
>> governance — headed by RTI activist Aruna Roy — objected to the move to
>> compress applications for information to only one matter at a time and set
>> a
>> word limit of 250.
>>
>> The sub-committee that recently consulted RTI stakeholders and advocates,
>> including former chief information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah and
>> Nikhil Dey, convener, National Campaign for People's Right to Information,
>> said the proposed change could lead to "misuse".
>>
>> "The rule about a single subject will be open to arbitrariness and misuse
>> as it is difficult to define," said a note it circulated and made
>> available
>> to The Telegraph.
>>
>> "Limit of number of words is bad in law, unrealistic and will militate
>> against rural applicants," the note added.
>>
>> The panel said there was no evidence that the existing rules had created
>> problems.
>>
>> The NAC, headed by Sonia Gandhi, stressed that no appeal to the
>> information
>> commission should be rejected on the ground that the accompanying
>> documents
>> were not attested or the required papers were missing.
>>
>> The note made it clear that withdrawal of appeals should not be allowed
>> and
>> neither should applications be allowed to die with the death of an
>> applicant.
>>
>> These arguments are expected to be taken up when the NAC next meets on
>> December 21.
>>
>