Monday, October 31, 2011

Re: [HumJanenge] [HumJanenge-YG] Flash: DoPT : Apply for CICs Posts

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:27 PM, lokesh batra <batra_lokesh@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

Flash : Apply for Central Information Commissioners  Post: DoPT Circular

31 October 2011

DoPT has issued a circular requesting applications for Central Information Commissioners appointment :
 
Quote

"Persons fulfilling the criteria for appointment as Information Commissioner and interested for appointment to the post may send their particulars in the enclosed proforma by post to Under Secretary (IR), Department of Personnel and Training, North Block, New Delhi or  through e-mail to usrti-dopt@nic.in   by November 18, 2011. Persons who are serving under the State/Central Government or any other  organization, may send their particulars through proper channel."
Unquote
 
 
Full text of the circular can be read on LINK below :
 
 
http://circulars.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02nic/ic.pdf
 
 
My take :
 
Government needs to be congratulated for making process of selection of Information Commissioner open to public.
 
This has been long standing demand of RTI Activists.
 
The big question is ... will  the entire process of selection become transparent?
 
I recommend those who desire to apply for the post to send their application by Speed Post in addition to sending it by email. The movement of Speed Post letter can be tracked on Dept of Posts website. 
 
Remember on 10 Dec 2010, DoPT had issued a circular seeking public comments on proposed amendment to RTI
Rules by email...
 
After sending my comments I had followed it with an RTI seeking file details on which public views were being processed and had asked for attested hard copy of my comments sent by email. DoPT had not diariesd public comments in any file and could not show me the so called folder in which public comments placed as claimed by CPIO (DoPT).
 
When ever I checked with DoPT CPIO, I was told the said folder containing Public Comments "NOT TRACEBLE". The file on which the amendment to RTI rules was delibrated in DoPT had only NAC's comments.
 
Media story on my RTI can be read on the link below.
 
http://www.governancenow.com/gov-next/rti/draft-rti-rules-no-mechanism-track-public-feedback
 
 
Good Luck to candidates.
 
Best
{Commodore Lokesh Batra (Retd.)}
Social & RTI Activist
BringChange

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Flash : Apply for Central Information Commissioners  Post: DoPT Circular

31 October 2011

DoPT has issued a circular requesting applications for Central Information Commissioners appointment :
 
Quote

"Persons fulfilling the criteria for appointment as Information Commissioner and interested for appointment to the post may send their particulars in the enclosed proforma by post to Under Secretary (IR), Department of Personnel and Training, North Block, New Delhi or  through e-mail to usrti-dopt@nic.in   by November 18, 2011. Persons who are serving under the State/Central Government or any other  organization, may send their particulars through proper channel."
Unquote
 
 
Full text of the circular can be read on LINK below :
 
 
http://circulars.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02nic/ic.pdf
 
 
My take :
 
Government needs to be congratulated for making process of selection of Information Commissioner open to public.
 
This has been long standing demand of RTI Activists.
 
The big question is ... will  the entire process of selection become transparent?
 
I recommend those who desire to apply for the post to send their application by Speed Post in addition to sending it by email. The movement of Speed Post letter can be tracked on Dept of Posts website. 
 
Remember on 10 Dec 2010, DoPT had issued a circular seeking public comments on proposed amendment to RTI
Rules by email...
 
After sending my comments I had followed it with an RTI seeking file details on which public views were being processed and had asked for attested hard copy of my comments sent by email. DoPT had not diariesd public comments in any file and could not show me the so called folder in which public comments placed as claimed by CPIO (DoPT).
 
When ever I checked with DoPT CPIO, I was told the said folder containing Public Comments "NOT TRACEBLE". The file on which the amendment to RTI rules was delibrated in DoPT had only NAC's comments.
 
Media story on my RTI can be read on the link below.
 
http://www.governancenow.com/gov-next/rti/draft-rti-rules-no-mechanism-track-public-feedback
 
 
Good Luck to candidates.
 
Best
{Commodore Lokesh Batra (Retd.)}
Social & RTI Activist
BringChange

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Re: [HumJanenge] RTI User in Orissa implicated in false charges by Officials of Forest Dept. – Another testimony of Official-induced Harassment to the Citizen.

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Subject: [HumJanenge] RTI User in Orissa implicated in false charges by Officials of Forest Dept. – Another testimony of Official-induced Harassment to the Citizen.

RTI User in Orissa implicated in false charges by Officials of  Forest Dept. – Another testimony of Official-induced Harassment to the Citizen(13)
 
Dear friends
 
 Since last few months,  there is an unprecedented development in rural Orissa that more and more people of disadvantaged communities  are coming forward to take up corrupt issues through using RTI in the state of Orissa.  Now RTI is not at all  a cup of tea for urban Middle Class. But  the common people at grass root level have come forward  to assert their right  to access the information and expose  the corruption  and  irregularities  through using RTI  and  taking   risk of life in their Endeavour of  enforcing  a transparent and accountable governance system  in the state. 
 
Mr. Braja Bihari Swain, aged about 66year, a retired employee of Orissa Forest Development Corporation,   in Nayagarh District of Orissa   is the president of 11Mouza Forest Protection Committee (an initiative by people of eleven villages for protecting the forest) for the year 2008 and 2009.  While interacting with the people, he came to know about a massive corruption in CAMPA fund and utilization of  Govt. Grants in Ranapur Forest Range.  He submitted RTI Application  to the PIO, office of Divisional Forest Officer, Khurda to  know the details of CAMPA project and fund allocated and utilized for the same. Tracing out  series of irregularities  in CAMPA project after  having gone through  the information supplied by DFO office, he submitted  a  petition to PCCF- Aranya Bhawan, DG-Vigilance, Govt. of Orissa, Secretary,  Department of  Forest and Environment and Divisonal Forest officer, Khurda for an enquiry and take legal action against the culprits. Being  greatly disturbed and terrified by the complaint petition,  the Range-Officer, Ranpur( Abhay Jena) and Forester, Sankhajodi Beat( Ramesh Chandra Jani) has registered a malicious and false case of illicit tree felling  against him and threatened   to murder   making him  as  co-accused with 18 professional timber mafias in Nayagarh district.
 
Information obtained under RTI  
  1. As per the Information obtained under RTI from Divisional Forest Office, Khurda dated 21/ 10/2010, around 10.58lakh rupees have been  spent for plantation in 64 hectare in Mal reserve forest.
  2. As per  Information supplied by DFO Khurda (Ranapur forest range office falls under this Division) dated 16th April 2011, around 4.34 lakh was spent for Plantation in 64 hectre in Mal Reserve Forest.
 
  1. The above two information do not match each other though both the reports are furnished by the same Office. This variation gives a fishy smell in the whole affairs of plantation in the area.
 
  1.  That as per the information supplied by DFO Khurda dated 12th May 2011 where they have supplied 15 cash voucher copies which amounts to around 3.77lakh rupees and this information was given against our question on all the cash voucher copies of the amount of 4.34lakh spent for plantation in 64 hectare in mal reserve forest. In addition to this two cash vouchers vide 87 ® 7/10 and 88( r) 7/10 that amounts to Rs 68,400  were not counter signed by the concerned Range Officer and passed by the DFO Khurda. This shows that the amounts they have been claiming to be spent are not in the vouchers and secondly the DFO has not sincerely examined while signing the Vouchers.
 
  About the False case:
AS per the FIR No 150/11filed dated 10.9. 2011  by Forest Ranger,  Charges  have been leveled against him  under section 294/379/506/149 of IPC and section 25 and 27 of Arms Act. In the above case he has  been made co-accused  along with other 18 members. The intention of filling this case  is to harass him and desist him  from filing complaints and RTI applications against the Ranpur Range Officer. As he was instrumental in filing the RTI applications and petitions, they had targeted him  by filing a false case. At any time, the police may arrest him.
 
 Now he has filed a petition to Orissa Information Commission and Orissa Human Rights Commission  praying for an enquiry into the matter  and  give him justice.
 
Pradip Pradhan
RTI Activist, Orissa
M-99378-43482
Date- 31.10.2011


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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Re: [HumJanenge] RTI User in Orissa implicated in false charges by Officials of Forest Dept. – Another testimony of Official-induced Harassment to the Citizen.

Dear Friends,

This is rather unfortunate.

RTI delivery is flawed with manual processing which is discretionary too some time. Promulgating RTI Act is necessary but not sufficient. The completeness of RTI Act needs to be achieved by its delivery process through e governance. Please refer my couple of mails earlier. 

We are going to see the same deficiencies even if we get the best of Lok Pals and Lok Ayuktas.

Out of the three layers of governance Vital, Essential and Desirable (VED), V is made up of politicians and babus, E is made up of police, judges, CBI, CVC etc and D is all the rest.

V layer the most important and heaviest of all is mostly corrupt and is stinking in India. The moment e governance addresses the functions of   V layer, this would become 90 % corruption free. E and D layers will simply follow in the foot steps of V layer as shear weight of V layer will pull them through and take them along a good path. 

Just to re-iterate, all 40 developed countries have their V layer functions performed mostly through e governance.

We need to continue with our efforts to improve the delivery of RTI and press for e governance in a time bound manner.
 
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Subject: [HumJanenge] RTI User in Orissa implicated in false charges by Officials of Forest Dept. – Another testimony of Official-induced Harassment to the Citizen.

RTI User in Orissa implicated in false charges by Officials of  Forest Dept. – Another testimony of Official-induced Harassment to the Citizen(13)
 
Dear friends
 
 Since last few months,  there is an unprecedented development in rural Orissa that more and more people of disadvantaged communities  are coming forward to take up corrupt issues through using RTI in the state of Orissa.  Now RTI is not at all  a cup of tea for urban Middle Class. But  the common people at grass root level have come forward  to assert their right  to access the information and expose  the corruption  and  irregularities  through using RTI  and  taking   risk of life in their Endeavour of  enforcing  a transparent and accountable governance system  in the state. 
 
Mr. Braja Bihari Swain, aged about 66year, a retired employee of Orissa Forest Development Corporation,   in Nayagarh District of Orissa   is the president of 11Mouza Forest Protection Committee (an initiative by people of eleven villages for protecting the forest) for the year 2008 and 2009.  While interacting with the people, he came to know about a massive corruption in CAMPA fund and utilization of  Govt. Grants in Ranapur Forest Range.  He submitted RTI Application  to the PIO, office of Divisional Forest Officer, Khurda to  know the details of CAMPA project and fund allocated and utilized for the same. Tracing out  series of irregularities  in CAMPA project after  having gone through  the information supplied by DFO office, he submitted  a  petition to PCCF- Aranya Bhawan, DG-Vigilance, Govt. of Orissa, Secretary,  Department of  Forest and Environment and Divisonal Forest officer, Khurda for an enquiry and take legal action against the culprits. Being  greatly disturbed and terrified by the complaint petition,  the Range-Officer, Ranpur( Abhay Jena) and Forester, Sankhajodi Beat( Ramesh Chandra Jani) has registered a malicious and false case of illicit tree felling  against him and threatened   to murder   making him  as  co-accused with 18 professional timber mafias in Nayagarh district.
 
Information obtained under RTI  
  1. As per the Information obtained under RTI from Divisional Forest Office, Khurda dated 21/ 10/2010, around 10.58lakh rupees have been  spent for plantation in 64 hectare in Mal reserve forest.
  2. As per  Information supplied by DFO Khurda (Ranapur forest range office falls under this Division) dated 16th April 2011, around 4.34 lakh was spent for Plantation in 64 hectre in Mal Reserve Forest.
 
  1. The above two information do not match each other though both the reports are furnished by the same Office. This variation gives a fishy smell in the whole affairs of plantation in the area.
 
  1.  That as per the information supplied by DFO Khurda dated 12th May 2011 where they have supplied 15 cash voucher copies which amounts to around 3.77lakh rupees and this information was given against our question on all the cash voucher copies of the amount of 4.34lakh spent for plantation in 64 hectare in mal reserve forest. In addition to this two cash vouchers vide 87 ® 7/10 and 88( r) 7/10 that amounts to Rs 68,400  were not counter signed by the concerned Range Officer and passed by the DFO Khurda. This shows that the amounts they have been claiming to be spent are not in the vouchers and secondly the DFO has not sincerely examined while signing the Vouchers.
 
  About the False case:
AS per the FIR No 150/11filed dated 10.9. 2011  by Forest Ranger,  Charges  have been leveled against him  under section 294/379/506/149 of IPC and section 25 and 27 of Arms Act. In the above case he has  been made co-accused  along with other 18 members. The intention of filling this case  is to harass him and desist him  from filing complaints and RTI applications against the Ranpur Range Officer. As he was instrumental in filing the RTI applications and petitions, they had targeted him  by filing a false case. At any time, the police may arrest him.
 
 Now he has filed a petition to Orissa Information Commission and Orissa Human Rights Commission  praying for an enquiry into the matter  and  give him justice.
 
Pradip Pradhan
RTI Activist, Orissa
M-99378-43482
Date- 31.10.2011


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Re: [HumJanenge] Booklet on RTI

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Pradip Pradhan <pradippradhan63@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear  friends
Greetings from Odisha Sochana Adhikar Abhijan

Please  find attached herewith  Booklet  entitled "CIVIL SOCIETY EFFORTS TO SET ARIGHT ORISSA'S FAULTY RTI REGIME - A COMPILATION"  published on occasion of  6th State Convention on Right to Information  held in Bhubaneswar, capital city of Orissa  on 28th to 30th Aug.2011. If anybody requires hard copy, I will be happy to send it with payment of Rs. 100/- per each copy.
Regards
Pradip Pradhan

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[HumJanenge] Booklet on RTI

Dear  friends
Greetings from Odisha Sochana Adhikar Abhijan

Please  find attached herewith  Booklet  entitled "CIVIL SOCIETY EFFORTS TO SET ARIGHT ORISSA'S FAULTY RTI REGIME - A COMPILATION"  published on occasion of  6th State Convention on Right to Information  held in Bhubaneswar, capital city of Orissa  on 28th to 30th Aug.2011. If anybody requires hard copy, I will be happy to send it with payment of Rs. 100/- per each copy.
Regards
Pradip Pradhan
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[HumJanenge] RTI User in Orissa implicated in false charges by Officials of Forest Dept. – Another testimony of Official-induced Harassment to the Citizen.

RTI User in Orissa implicated in false charges by Officials of  Forest Dept. – Another testimony of Official-induced Harassment to the Citizen(13)

 

Dear friends

 

 Since last few months,  there is an unprecedented development in rural Orissa that more and more people of disadvantaged communities  are coming forward to take up corrupt issues through using RTI in the state of Orissa.  Now RTI is not at all  a cup of tea for urban Middle Class. But  the common people at grass root level have come forward  to assert their right  to access the information and expose  the corruption  and  irregularities  through using RTI  and  taking   risk of life in their Endeavour of  enforcing  a transparent and accountable governance system  in the state. 

 

Mr. Braja Bihari Swain, aged about 66year, a retired employee of Orissa Forest Development Corporation,   in Nayagarh District of Orissa   is the president of 11Mouza Forest Protection Committee (an initiative by people of eleven villages for protecting the forest) for the year 2008 and 2009.  While interacting with the people, he came to know about a massive corruption in CAMPA fund and utilization of  Govt. Grants in Ranapur Forest Range.  He submitted RTI Application  to the PIO, office of Divisional Forest Officer, Khurda to  know the details of CAMPA project and fund allocated and utilized for the same. Tracing out  series of irregularities  in CAMPA project after  having gone through  the information supplied by DFO office, he submitted  a  petition to PCCF- Aranya Bhawan, DG-Vigilance, Govt. of Orissa, Secretary,  Department of  Forest and Environment and Divisonal Forest officer, Khurda for an enquiry and take legal action against the culprits. Being  greatly disturbed and terrified by the complaint petition,  the Range-Officer, Ranpur( Abhay Jena) and Forester, Sankhajodi Beat( Ramesh Chandra Jani) has registered a malicious and false case of illicit tree felling  against him and threatened   to murder   making him  as  co-accused with 18 professional timber mafias in Nayagarh district.

 

Information obtained under RTI  

  1. As per the Information obtained under RTI from Divisional Forest Office, Khurda dated 21/ 10/2010, around 10.58lakh rupees have been  spent for plantation in 64 hectare in Mal reserve forest.
  2. As per  Information supplied by DFO Khurda (Ranapur forest range office falls under this Division) dated 16th April 2011, around 4.34 lakh was spent for Plantation in 64 hectre in Mal Reserve Forest.

 

  1. The above two information do not match each other though both the reports are furnished by the same Office. This variation gives a fishy smell in the whole affairs of plantation in the area.

 

  1.  That as per the information supplied by DFO Khurda dated 12th May 2011 where they have supplied 15 cash voucher copies which amounts to around 3.77lakh rupees and this information was given against our question on all the cash voucher copies of the amount of 4.34lakh spent for plantation in 64 hectare in mal reserve forest. In addition to this two cash vouchers vide 87 ® 7/10 and 88( r) 7/10 that amounts to Rs 68,400  were not counter signed by the concerned Range Officer and passed by the DFO Khurda. This shows that the amounts they have been claiming to be spent are not in the vouchers and secondly the DFO has not sincerely examined while signing the Vouchers.

 

  About the False case:

AS per the FIR No 150/11filed dated 10.9. 2011  by Forest Ranger,  Charges  have been leveled against him  under section 294/379/506/149 of IPC and section 25 and 27 of Arms Act. In the above case he has  been made co-accused  along with other 18 members. The intention of filling this case  is to harass him and desist him  from filing complaints and RTI applications against the Ranpur Range Officer. As he was instrumental in filing the RTI applications and petitions, they had targeted him  by filing a false case. At any time, the police may arrest him.

 

 Now he has filed a petition to Orissa Information Commission and Orissa Human Rights Commission  praying for an enquiry into the matter  and  give him justice.

 

Pradip Pradhan

RTI Activist, Orissa

M-99378-43482

Date- 31.10.2011

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