[HumJanenge] Re: PUBLIC GRIEVANCE: RTI Public Hearing on 11.Oct.2012

I shall certainly wear my "T-shorts" aka V-cut Frenchie to the CIC
convention in fond memory of Mr. Rakesh Agrawal (formerly of
NyayaBhoomi) and his "Sack CIC" initiative at the first CIC
convention.

Sarbajit

Vishnu Mutthu wrote:
> Dear Mr Sarabjit
>
> Excellent and bravo.
> Your golden words will be framed and displayed on T-shorts at RTI conference.
> few humble suggestions:
>
> 'CIC Satyananda is pet poodle of Aruna Roy who is pet poodle of Sonia'
> 'Save RTI feed the dogs'
>
> BTW, has anyone notice Mr Kejrival's name has been deleted from "life
> membership" of NCPRI on NCPRI website. All the rats are deserting the
> sinking ship.
>
> On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 1:07:54 AM UTC+5:30, sarbajit roy wrote:
>
> To:
> Shri Satyananda Mishra ji
> Chief Information Commissioner of India
> August Kranti Bhawan
> New Delhi
>
> BY EMAIL
>
> 10-Oct-2012
>
> Respected Sir
>
> I refer to the news report in the Hindustan Times concerning your
> attendance at a so-called public hearing ("jan sunwai") called by some
> NGOs omn Thus 11.Oct.2012 the day before the CIC's Convention.
> http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Public-hearing-on-RTI-ahead-of-its-7th-anniversary/Article1-942230.aspx
>
> The pendency at the CIC has rocketed out of all control under your
> esteemed stewardship. The citizens are crying out for speedy hearing
> and functioning Information Commissions and Commissioners.
>
> Instead we have the unseemly spectacle of public servants bunking
> their offices to waste time on jamborees and junkets organised by
> professional RTI touts. Your association with such dubious people can
> only tarnish your image while enhancing theirs.
>
> The citizens, ie the stake holder who use RTI, like me are aggrieved
> and desire to know why / how the same set of NCPRI persons who are
> calling this "jan sunwai" meeting, Ms. Aruna Roy, Mr Wajahat
> Habibullah, Mr. Venkatesh Nayak are also the only "private" persons
> who are on the panels for the CIC's own RTI Convention thereafter year
> after year.
>
> Is the DoPT's and various State Govt budgeted funds to transport and
> host Information Commissioners to Delhi for the CIC's RTI promotional
> Convention being instead used to subsidise this Private enterprise ?
>
> It is certainly a matter of great shame that you have apparently
> accepted an invitation to attend a so-called jan sunwai organised by
> the same NCPRI people who engineered the 500 word RTI rule on the
> citizen stakeholders by misusing the office of the Chairperson NAC.
>
> It is an even greater shame that you are attending a function
> organised by the very same NGO which Mr. Shailesh Gandhi was the
> convenor of prior to his becoming an Information Commissioner, and who
> caused the abomination of the CIC's senior officers filing a Writ
> Petition against him due to his corrupt and high handed ways, and
> which has led to this present situation of the judiciary interfering
> in the composition of the Commissions due to his idiotic decisions
>
> It is a complete joke and fraud on the citizens, that whereas the
> Chief Information Commissioner of India will attend like a pet poodle
> when summoned to Ms. Aruna Roy's private jan sunwai bash, that only
> Ms. Aruna Roy and her junior lap dogs (like Mr. Venkatesh Nayak) are
> apparently the only citizens the CIC can find to speak from the panels
> of the CIC's publicly funded conventions.
>
> Sir, let us be very honest and admit that the CIC's annual RTI
> Conventions (funded by the tax payer) are only organised every year so
> that the NCPRI RTI touts (funded by Google, DFID, CIA etc and
> patronised by the Chairperson NAC) can socialise with Information
> Commissioners and carry on their RTI lobbying / spying business in
> Info Commissions all over the country. Furthermore it is an open
> secret that you personally have no say whatsoever either in running
> the CIC or in selecting who the panelists / speakers will be, but that
> your personal honesty and integrity is never in doubt
>
> yours in disgust, etc etc.
>
> Sarbajit Roy
> New Delhi