Re: [HumJanenge] Fwd: Talk on RTI - Coimbatore

This is such an Act that everybody if free to tinker with this. Though Parliament has passed this Bill but this is being amended by every tom, dick and harry.  Some do this in the name of Management Regulations and some in other names or pretest. Last year, some Management Regulations framed by the Central Information Commission were declared null and void. Recently, I received two letters on 9th May from Joint Commissioner, (Resources Development and co-ordination) on my first appeal before the Jaipur Vikas Pradhikaran (Jaipur Development Authority) that if you are not present before the Commissioner at 3.30 on 16th May (after 6 days of the receipt of letter), it will be presumed that you have received the information and documents and no further action is required and your appeal and the same will be dismissed.  Now, there, every officer of the Public Authority is free to presume that the information has been supplied before seeing the records. This is despite the RTI Act and regulations that in case appellant is not present before the Appellate Authority (First and Second), the decision shall be taken on the basis of the material on record.   This is despite the fact that we receive mails from many advocates cum RTI activists but no body seems to have gathered courage and time to challenge such on-slaught on the RTI Act.  I may be excused for such terse remark.   I do not know whether it will be useful or not to bring such violations of the Act brought to the notice of the Hon'ble Speaker of Lok Sabha and Hon'ble Presiding Officer of the Rajya Sabha as both the Houses have passed the bill.  I am certain that such things should be challenged before the Supreme Court as the High Court has jurisdiction does not have jurisdiction across the country.  If I have been an advocate, I must have gone to Court against all this 'tamasha'. --- On Wed, 11/5/11, Abhijit Mehta <abhijit@abhijitmehta.com> wrote: From: Abhijit Mehta <abhijit@abhijitmehta.com> Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] Fwd: Talk on RTI - Coimbatore To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, 11 May, 2011, 10:53 PM It's a central law how can the state government amend a central law. Legal experts please advise. Regards Abhijit Mehta The Best Is Yet To Come  God Bless On 11-May-2011, at 10:07 PM, SHASHI KUMAR.A.R. wrote: I gone through your presentation , How Karnataka Government can change or amend the act saying the penalty will be leavyied on rti applicants , For every application the Public information officer or State information can use these ground and reject the application and he can leavy penalty on the applicants , It is a very bad move , it will detiriorate the spirit of the RTI ACT and entire RTI Act will be diluted and main purpose will be not served , How the governor or government can amend without taking public opinion , the act can be amended , All ready several times the rules have been made regarding number of words to be used in rti application pertatining to a single subject , Every user of RTI Act should condemn these type of attitude of the goverment or state information commission  ARS KUMAR. BE. LLB , MA JOURNALISM  On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Narayan Varma <narayanvarma2011@gmail.com> wrote: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: PUBLIC CONCERN FOR GOVERNANCE TRUST <publicconcern@gmail.com> Date: 11 May 2011 14:53 Subject: Talk on RTI - Coimbatore To: "Mr. Narayan Varma" <narayanvarma2011@gmail.com> Dear Sir, Attached herewith please find article covered in The Hindu newspaper. Best Wishes Ankita Pandya -- PUBLIC CONCERN FOR GOVERNANCE TRUST B/2 - Mahalaxmi Chambers, 22, Bhulabhai Desai Road, Mumbai - 400026 Tel No - 2352 64 26 Fax No - 2352 64 52 RTI HELPLINE NUMBER - 93 2288 2288 Website - www.pcgt.org -- Narayan Varma 56B Mittal Tower, 210 Nariman Point Mumbai 400 021 RTI PCGT helpline 09322882288             my cell   09821096052