My Dear Ram,
They should not! Rather open up completely"We have nothing to hide. If we did something wrong--Sack us-we will go and join you".
mm
From: "Ram Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "mc mahant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Assam] Udok Bheta-rokhiya Pota Kotha
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 21:18:28 -0600
Mukul da,Should the Govt. completely scrap the RTI? Often, when first instituted, many programs have teething problems. Things like the RTI can, over time, develop into something really good. And wouldn't it be a surprise to one day see C'da forwarding us some positive outcomes 'cause of the RTI. :)--Ram
On 12/1/06, mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:RTI Act is as much a farce as India Constitution. By Babus, Of Babus , For Babus.
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From: umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Assam] Udok Bheta-rokhiya Pota Kotha
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 23:41:02 +0000 (GMT)
seems like no NGO like people are ready to work -unless they have a retirement pension backing them. The head of RTI commission has to be unbiased so perhaps cannot run a side business.Shows lack of support of civil society thru donations etc.EW DELHI: You fight them to get information and
in just one day they become custodians of your
Right to Information.
The State Information Commissions, the final
appellate bodies for RTI Act 2005, have become a
favoured retirement option for babus in most
states.
In just one year of implementation of RTI Act
2005, former bureaucrats have taken over reins of
State Information Commissions in all the states.
In states like Chhattisgarh, Punjab and Haryana,
the urgency to name a former bureaucrat as the
State Chief Information Commissioner (SCIC) is
more than evident.
In these states, the current SCICs were named
for the post the very next day of their
retirement from service. The present State Chief
Information Commissioner of Chhattisgarh, for
instance, served as the state's chief secretary
from July 1, 2004 to November 6, 2005. He retired
and took up the post on November 7, 2005.
Haryana reflects exactly the same pattern. G
Madhavan retired as the state's chief secretary
on October 31, 2005 and was sworn in as the SCIC
on November 1, 2005.
Madhavan's successor â¤" Meenaxi Anand Chaudhary
â¤" retired as Haryana's chief secretary on April
30, 2006 and was sworn in as the State
Information Commissioner on May 9, 2006. Rajan
Kashyap retired as Punjab's chief secretary on
October 11, 2005 and was named the SCIC on
October 18, 2005.
Orissa is a unique case. IAS officer D N Padhi
had taken voluntary retirement from service. And
he landed himself a job as the SCIC.
Other states also show a similar pattern wherein
bureaucrats are favoured for the top job. Goa,
Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Uttar
Pradesh State Information Commissions have former
bureaucrats as the information commissioners.
Even the Central Information Commission's four
of five information commissioners are former
bureaucrats. The remaining six have not been
named so far.
RTI activists have been pointing out that this
is a wrong trend because the same bureaucrats who
have been in service would never part with
information about their decisions or any corrupt
practices. This has, however, become a norm
despite the fact that the Act itself gives a wide
choice in naming a state's information
commissioners.
Section 12 (5) of the RTI Act says: "The Chief
Information Commissioner and the Information
Commissioners shall be persons of eminence in
public life with wide knowledge and experience in
law, science and technology, social service,
management, journalism, mass media or
administration and governance."
The same criteria has been set for SCICs under Section 15 of the Act.
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