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FYI Dear Friends, Please watch the next episode of Janane Ka Haq to be telecast on DD News on Saturday, 04 December, 2010 at 10.30am and repeated on Sunday 05 December, 2010 at 3.30pm. The Programme will focus on Right to Information Campaign in Dahod district of Gujarat that was organised by Nagrik Adhikar Kendra, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in collaboration with the Gujarat State Information Commission and the district administration. Mr. Venkatesh Nayak, Coordinator, Access to Information Programme, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative will feature in the show as a resource person. More Information about the the Dahod RTI Abhiyan is given below. For detailed information about the RTI campaign, contact Mr Venkatesh Nayak at ([email protected]<venkatesh%40humanrightsinitiative.org>or [email protected] <nayak.venkatesh%40gmail.com>; Phone: 91-11- 43180215/43180200/ 26864678) . About Dahod RTI Abhiyan: In Gujarat, one of our hub states within a very short period in 2009-10, CHRI has developed a model proactive disclosure scheme for Gram Panchayats in collaboration with Nagrik Adhikar Kendra (NAK), Kalol, Panchmahals district. Basic information related to development schemes, functions and budget of Gram Panchayat has been painted on the walls of Malav Gram Panchayat in Panchmahals district. This exercise is an impact and outcome of the RTI compliance survey that we conducted in Panchmahals in 2009 and the subsequent RTI Abhiyan conducted in that district in collaboration with the Gujarat State Information Commission and the district administration. The Sarpanch and Secretary of Malav Gram Panchayat worked with CHRI and NAK to develop the model proactive disclosure scheme. At a ceremony held in June 2010, the State Chief Information Commissioner declared Malav to be a fully compliant Gram Panchayat vis-à-vis its proactive disclosure obligations under the RTI Act. NAK has held several meetings with the local residents to educate them about the wall paintings. Lists of BPL families and holders of various types of ration cards have also been displayed through notice boards. These can be inspected by any person free of cost. Most of the wall paintings containing crucial information about the development schemes and finances can be accessed even when the office of the panchayat remains closed as they have been painted on its outer walls. The local media gave wide coverage to this initiative. The district administration has invited CHRI and NAK to scale up this exercise and cover 25% of the gram panchayats in the district. Encouraged by the success of the Panchmahals RTI campaign and the successful completion of the Malav wall paintings, CHRI approached the State Information Commission, the district administration and civil society organisations in Dahod with a proposal to launch a similar RTI Abhiyan with a sharp focus on improving proactive disclosure at the block and Gram Panchayat level. The month long preparations involved holding eight sensitisation workshops, with senior officers of the district and block level administration in all the development blocks of this predominantly tribal district. The importance of proactive disclosure was discussed with officers of the Zilla Parishad, District Rural Development Agency, the district level Food and Civil Supplies office, the Police Department, the Forest Department and the office responsible for implementing the Tribal Sub-Plan. While these offices began serious work on improving their proactive disclosure manuals, the NAK team held intensive coaching workshops for Sarpanches and Talathis for implementing the Malav model in Dahod in 15 Gram Panchayats. Individuals and officials in charge of the Gram Panchayat, Anganwadi Kendras, the fair price shop, the primary health centre and the local government school attended this workshop. Thanks to the support of the district administration during the Dahod RTI Abhiyan, the target of making 15 gram panchayats compliant with their proactive disclosure obligation was not only achieved but was exceeded exponentially. The district administration ordered the replication of the Malav experiment in 200 villages spread over the district. CHRI and NAK are collecting information the amount of work done in these villages. Thanks Aditi Aditi Datta Media and Communications Officer Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative B-117, Sarvodaya Enclave, Second Floor New Delhi 110017 INDIA www.humanrightsinitiative.org Ph: 91 11 46085477, 45804529 Fax: 91 11 26864688 CHRI is an independent, non partisan, international non-governmental organization headquartered in New Delhi. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] __._ __,_._,___ -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist The UID project is going to do almost exactly the same thing which the predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these lists with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included racial census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying them. At the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an exhibit of an IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible for organising the census of 1933 that first identified the Jews. *SAY NO TO UID CAMPAIGN- SPREAD THE WORD AND JOIN FB GROUP* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/ http://questioningaadhaar.blogspot.com/* http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=B67A798223F96E73 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
