For lack of better things to do these motley group of activists have been "raiding" offices of Public Authorities more in Maharashtra and less in other places. Even if permitted under the Act, making this a regular habit is only helping in pushing the backs of these chosen Authority's to the wall.
May make more sense in spreading power of RTI Act amongst people . Regards / Anil Heble xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2008/11/15 sroy1947 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Recently a few misguided (or rather misinformed) RTI activists raided > the office of Maharashtra SIC demanding as follows:- > > "that under section section 4 read with section 2 (j)(i), every public > authority has an obligation to allow inspection of files without > appointment, prior appointment or any preconditions. We expect that > henceforth, your office will give inspection of all your records which > can be given under RTI Act, sought by any citizen of India." > > What is even more surprising is that these people claim to be RTI > veterans seeking information since Nov 2006 under RTI. > > If the above (novel) interpretation is true <rol> then why do we need > section 6, and SICs in the first place. I got this as a "PRESS > RELEASE" in my email box, and a few RTI Yahoo groups have published it > where it stands uncontradicted. > > Sarbajit > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
