Goans Everywhere, This is now an all-India ACT -- asper this act the Government Dept / Officer has to reply to your query -- afterpayent of specified fees -- within THIRTY days -- if he fails you can refer the matter to the Appellate Information Officer and he can obtainthe information from the relevant Dept / Official and penalise the Dept/Officer for not having replied in the specified thirty days
How efective this will be -- we can only wait -- but unless people raise queries this Act cannot be tested Under the old State Acts there was good response and many officers and the Municipality of Bombay was taken to task -- Information made available was the basis for the filing of PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION cases. And the relevant Depts / Officials have been hauled up and in many cases hve individually had to pay penalties So ASK QUESTIONS AND DEMAND ANSWERS Cheers Aloysius D"Souza ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary" <goanet@goanet.org> To: <goanet@goanet.org> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 9:55 AM Subject: [Goanet] Re: RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT | Dear Sirs, | | Can you please tell me how effective the RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT is going | to be. Do you think that citizens will now be able to get the information | from government departments such as police, municipalities etc. | | Please let me know something more about it. | | thanks | | Mary |
