Er S. Roy Ji , I did Not Rush To the press . One Group of RTi activists have decided that Every Month They will Have an RTI Clinic and as a Curtain raiser present to the media Sucess Stories or An Story of How RTI is Being Violated so that More And More RTI users can be Networked . Yes , The words Used by the Reporter or Not Mine. Further I was Not in the Press Meet at all but , Freinds In the Media Could Get Access to Me late In the Night as the Other Person Could Not be reached. However The RTI Clinic This Month Was Attended by Nearly 24 Persons . And yes we Are getting Often some Desired Results , Because In Karnataka There Some fear factor of RTI working on the Govt officials . The Bangalore University Supplied the Elusive Marks Card to My Niece A Few Days Back After Her Completion of Post graduate Degree and Getting Employment as an lecturer . My Freind Kalidas Reddy Succeded A poor Student get Back her Fees When she withdrew her admission of Family finiancial Constraints and Joined an Evening college . In both cases We Only went upto the First Appeal And Offcourse Such Sucess of Late are Oasis in Desert Thank You For Your Valuable Comments And They have been passed on to The reporter and the Group of activists /Users
N vikramsimha , Trustee RTI Study centre & KRIA Katte , #12 Sumeru Sir M N Krishna Rao Road , Basvangudi < Bangalore 560004. --- On Wed, 29/7/09, Kathyayini Chamaraj <[email protected]> wrote: From: Kathyayini Chamaraj <[email protected]> Subject: [kria] Fwd: [rti_india] Re: Camp to make public aware of RTI weapon To: "kria" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, 29 July, 2009, 7:49 PM ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: sroy1947 <sroy1...@yahoo. com> Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:03 PM Subject: [rti_india] Re: Camp to make public aware of RTI weapon To: rti_in...@yahoogrou ps.com I am sure that Vikram Simha has been misquoted (one of the pitfalls of running to the media). Just for the record. 1) The citizen is not supposed to ask "questions" in RTI process !!! 2) RTI is not a "weapon" - but rather (and as Simha states) a "tool" (whether it is a "powerful tool" or not is still open). 3) RTI is not supposed to yield "desired results" but "information" . Sarbajit (A great fool) --- In rti_in...@yahoogrou ps.com <rti_india%40yahoog roups.com> , Myth Kumar <fightin498a@ ...> wrote: > > The Constitution of India, through the Right to Information (RTI) Act, > entitles the public to seek information regarding anything that is of public > interest or any issues that will affect the public one way or another. > However owing to a lack of awareness, only three per cent of the population > is actually using this right to their benefit. > A group of NGOs and civil society organisations in the city have therefore > come together to help people gain knowledge regarding this act. Apart from > de-bunking people's misconception that RTI is largely a tool for the media, > RTI activists will assist the general public and tell them how to file their > own RTIs. > "We will assemble in Cubbon Park, right opposite Press Club on Saturday," > said Vikram Simha, an RTI activist. The 'clinic' as it is referred to, will > be held every last Saturday of the month in Cubbon Park. > Emphasising the need for such a 'clinic', Vikram said, "This is a very > powerful tool given to the people. But, if it isn't used properly, then > chances are that the right will be withdrawn or forgotten." He pointed that > while some may apply for information using this act, their lack of knowledge > of the workings of the government departments may cause unnecessary > hindrance. > At the clinic, activists plan to guide citizens on filing RTIs for > individual use. Another problem area that will be addressed here is > regarding the issue of asking the right questions. As Vikram said, "This > basically means that we help citizens understand how a question needs to be > asked to get the desired results." > c_vaishalli@ ... > > http://epaper. dnaindia. com/dnabangalore /newsview. aspx?eddate= 7/25/2009& pageno=2& edition=9& prntid=7061& bxid=27955796& pgno=2 > > ------------ --------- -------- > "Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever > known were learned men." > > http://followmeonne t.blogspot. com/ > > If "con" is the opposite of "pro", then what is the opposite of progress? > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! recommends that you upgrade to the new and safer Internet Explorer 8. http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
