It seems Utpal probably Sanjoy too did not get the meaning of my posting :)
Here I am explaining again: I have suggested that "solution centric" issues be considered often to discuss. What do I mean by "solution centric"? I have given an exempli gratia, i.e., Assam Government has been returning funds to GOI about December each year with cause for return being "unable to utilize". Then I ask 3 critical questions: Why did this happen in the past? Who do you need to educate and how to educate? What amount of fund will go back by December 2007? Question 4 I ask is like "call for help": Can journalists use RTI to explore facts deeper? Then I have concluded looking for feedback suggestions on this topic. Have I explained okay this time? So Utpal have you understood? do you have answers to skipped 3 questions to share with us? <: If I remember correctly, you had suggested that journalists should file RTI applications <: to find out more about it, to which I had said why journalists, By saying "If I remember correctly" Utpla talks question 4., first 3 questions he skipped :) <: why journalists, Should journalists have addressed this "fund return culture" professionally & intelligibly the media would have been regarded as "constructive-role-media" <: In fact, many newspapers in Delhi have started filing RTI ... The thread is said to be "solution centric" for Assam. So would you care tell us more what you know about newspapers from Assam, so we learn? And, would you care to share your experiences on RTI as well so we know what response you got, relevant to this discussion. In a separate thread I will highlight my experiences on RTI usage. <: I have not filed any PIL as yet - but my friend Mrinal Talukdar, ... Mrinal has a PIL thread in assamonline, but regarding Utpal's prediction I have differing view. "The probability of Assam being a Kerala" is "poor". Any idea why Mrinal does not talk regarding 117 Crores of fund meant for Tea Tribes has gone unaccounted (piled up 8-10 years during the past)? For not receiving the spending details GOI threatened not to pay anymore by year 2008. Should some of the returned funds since 1990 have been professionally utilized some of the communities would not have been on-street-agitation today. Am not I right? Now coming back to Zaman's inquiry, "if in the past Assamese journalists have written any investigative article at all on this topic". So Utpal, do you know any journalist from Assam who ever put together an "investigative report" on "fund return" in the media during past the decade? Please tell us more what journalists have done during the past decade to address this issue. Or tell us why they did not address this issue, what restricted them, ... ... ... Would like to add one more inquiry: What are the differences and similarities between a Reporter and a Journalist? Rabin --- utpal borpujari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear mr Rabin Deka, It seems you have totally misunderstood the meaning of my mail. And I am not against journalists filing RTI applications. In fact, many newspapers in Delhi have started filing RTI applications with various ministries to get information now (Indian Express has done that more than once in recent times). If I remember correctly, you had suggested that journalists should file RTI applications to find out more about it, to which I had said why journalists, anybody else can do that, which means that journalists as well as anybody else can file an RTI application. I have not filed any PIL as yet - but my friend Mrinal Talukdar, who is with UNI, filed a PIL at Gauhati High Court against the culture of bandhs in Assam. It is still pending, quite clearly because the legal process moves slowly. But if it goes the way what Kerala High Court had said earlier, Assam would be free from bandhs. utpal borpujari Re: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/3844 <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/3844>
