Re: [HumJanenge] Do we need a Lokpal Bill to remove Ministers ?

Sarabjit
do u knw who brought RTI?
Regds
Rajesh M

On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:14 IST Abhijit Mehta wrote:

>Mt Friend is China is taking over this country, I don't thing I am complaining. It cant get any worse then where we are.
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>Now i was made to understand that this a RTI group may we please stick to RTI and all those interested in other stuff may open a new group and take it up there.
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>If I dare ask an RTI question, does anyone know if the Maharashtra Information commission has hiked the cost of information on a CD from Rs 50/- to Rs/-100?
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>Regards
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>Abhijit Mehta
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>The Best Is Yet To Come
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>God Bless
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>On 08-Apr-2011, at 4:56 PM, sarbajit roy wrote:
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>> Anna Hazare is not the only person to get corrupt Ministers from
>> Maharashtra removed from office. I also belong to that little club :-)
>> So let me tell you my story.
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>> In January 2004 after a chain of incidents which affected me as an
>> ordinary citizen I filed an RTI (under Delhi Right to Information Act
>> - there was no NRTI then) to the TRAI (a Central body). They accepted
>> it after some hesitation and wrangling and I got the inspection I
>> wanted. Although how I used that information is MY intellectual
>> property, sufficeth it to say a great deal of pressure was brought
>> upon me to withdraw my complaint(s) which I did not cow down to, and
>> finally the PMO had no option but to replace (in all of 4 days) Mr
>> Pramod Mahajan with Mr Arun Shourie (who incidentally along with his
>> sidekick Mr Pradeep Baijal) turns out to be an even bigger h**** than
>> the Hon'ble member from Maharashtra. Incidentally I was assured at the
>> time (and they stuck to it) that Pramod Mahajan would not rejoin as
>> Minister for 6 years. I was also assisted by some honest people in
>> govt to inititiate proceedings (in SC) to recover at least some of the
>> telecom licence fees which had been "gifted" away to the private
>> operator. I am glad to say that over Rs. 4,000 crores was levied and
>> compounded by the errant telcos and so I didn't even have to get my
>> petition listed.
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>> The route I took is still open to anyone to use. It is extraordinarily
>> fast (definitely much much less than 2 years proposed in Jan LokPal
>> Bill) . All it needs is extraordinary knowledge of law, goivt systems,
>> processes and human psychology. Like all good things such approaches
>> can only be appreciated and used by masters. Unfortunately what Anna
>> Hazare is trying to do is to "dumb it down" like RTI Act (ie hand
>> AK-47s to goons and morons) so that there will be total anarchy in the
>> country and his friend's Chinese friends can take this country over.
>> .
>> Sarbajit
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