---------------------------------------------------------------------- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help others be BETTER INFORMED ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN observes Right To Information Fortnight ----------------------------------------------------- The Goa Civic and Consumer Action Network (GOACAN) is observing a Right To Information Fortnight from 12th to 25th October. The program being organised on the occasion of the third anniversary of the enactment of the Right To Information Act 2005 seeks to address the need for awareness on RTI as well as to petition the Goa Govt. to fulfill its duties with respect to the Act.
GOACAN will highlight the demand that the Goa Govt. print and sell copies of the Act in English and the vernacular languages for an affordable price. The Govt. increases training sessions for its officials in the administration of the RTI Act especially the Village Panchayat Secretaries and Head Clerks of various Departments. The Govt. publicizes the salient features of the Act through Adverts. on Hoardings & Cable TV and wall painting at Bus Stands, Primary Health Centres, Police Stations, offices of Mamlatdars & District Collectors and all village Panchayats & Municipal Councils. The Govt. must enforce the compulsory display of boards stating the PIO's of all the Depts., Corporations and Agencies & Institutions receiving substantial funds from the Govt. During the fortnight GOACAN will network with the village based Consumer Forums to promote awareness on the Right To Information Act in the local area. Consumer Forum activists will organise "phone in's" with the various Heads of Departments and Central Govt. offices operating in Goa to verify whether the RTI procedures are being followed. The Forum volunteers will also publicise the user friendly method of affixing a Rs.10/- Court Fee stamp on the RTI application at the time of submission. In order to draw public and media attention to the use of RTI Act during the fortnight, surprise visits & checks, submitting of RTI applications and inspection of files will be undertaken. During the fortnight consumer activists will also publicize the address, telephone & fax numbers and email id of the Goa State Information Commission, the list of the APIO's, PIO's and the Appellate Authorities. ------------------------------------------------------------ GOA CIVIC AND CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK ----------------------------------------------------------- promoting civic and consumer rights in Goa ----------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN Post Box 187 Margao, Goa 403 601 GOACAN Post Box 78 Mapusa, Goa 403 507 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------
