Dear BhubanKa,
<Right to Information Act will operate under these circumstances.> Ans: Won't
Imagine somebody Demands Rightfully to know :
- Is the PM suitable/qualified/capable of determining the life and times of a Billion helpless?
- Is the Indian Judiciary relevant
- What will happen if the Indian Defence Forces and Police/BSF are disbanded
- What happened to Task force report on Flood /Banks Collapse-we want full recommendations to be published -alomngwith recommenders' CV's
- How will Delhi stop Hunder Pains in Assam this Winter and next Summer?Will India Survive?
...............plus 1000 more
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Subject: Re: [Assam] The Truth, all the Truth and nothing but the Truth::: Revealed
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:21:47 EDT
Dear MikeEast or West - everywhere Government as well large corporations lie in their budgets. In India accurate statistics in rural areas are totally absent: I know from experience how vital statistics (The village headmen keep records of births and deaths) are kept and maintained; records of deaths from disease, accidens and other causes are hardly compiled. Figures relating to the cattle population are supplied by 'mondals' and such other functionaries on the basis of their wide guesses.In my view the reason for this failure to keep and maintain proper records cannot be attributed solely to the successive governments which inherit a totally decrepit set up. This is a Herculean task and requires years of planning and expenditure. Computers of course will help in course of time. Corporate accountants and managers as well as their counterparts working for Government always juggle with the figures in order to meet emergencies. I know of occasions when Government of India itself had to obtain information from other countries: information which New Delhi should certainly have had. In the Bofors case, data were not available in Government of India offices. One of the causes of its failure was lack of information. I understand even the Government of UK admitted that detailed and accurate figures relating to illegal immigrants to the country were not available. Mr Blair had a very rough time once on this score in a television interview. I wonder how the Right to Information Act will operate under these circumstances.RegardsBhuban
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