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

Frinds, One thing everybody has to focus is that under the rti Act, the authorities have a duty to keep all the information in an electronic form also.   The authority if they are honest will put up the decisions on the notice board of their office so that it avoids all paper works and disturbance to the regular work.  If they do not, it certainly means they have things to hide, where one can search in electronic media.  If it is not also available there, one is compelled to apply in writing.   If there were to be an appeal, the applicant must also bring the fact that this authority is not maintaining the information as per section 4 and as a result the applicant was put into difficulties and incur expenditure, time and tension.  Therefore in his prayer clause he can add that he should be compensated for all these monetarily a certain sum.  This would be in addition to what fine the Commission could levy on the pio for failure. Probably this should bring the authorities out of their lethargy and mend their ways.  Regards, nbca, dwarakanathdm, bangalore. 

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:59 AM, 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.