If NGOs are receiving funding assistance from the Government, they can't avoid avoid being brought under the purview of RTI Act. There is all the more greater need for transparency and accountability in their case. Thee is nothing wrong in such NGOs being called upon to respond to public scrutiny under RTI
S K NANGIA --- On Fri, 4/9/09, Sidharth <[email protected]> wrote: From: Sidharth <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [rti_india] Orissa Notification on NGOs as Public Authorities under RTI Act- Absurd & Illegal ! To: [email protected] Date: Friday, 4 September, 2009, 9:28 PM If NGOs (or whatever they call themselves) are receiving Public/Govt. fund then they should at least come clean/accountable for that money. They ought to be fully RTI compliant & should immediately put in place a working mechanism for information dissemination, if they have not already done so. The writing is on the wall. There should be no escape from of RTI. This particular decision from wajahat & ors. is particularly noteworthy. http://tinyurl.com/mkw3gu Sidharth On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Chitta Behera <[email protected]> wrote: > > Orissa Notification on NGOs as Public Authorities under RTI Act- Absurd & > Illegal ! > (Download Oriya article at http://www.box.net/shared/t8sot3mqi9 ) > > On 28th Aug. last, the sudden notification by the Government of Orissa in the > newspapers that a section of NGOs need to appoint PIOs, APIOs & 1st Appellate > Officers in compliance to RTI Act must have surprised many. Not necessarily > because it portended additional and exacting load on their portfolio and > resources, but surely because it gave rise to so many perplexing questions > the answer to which still eludes them. The said notification, though premised > on Section 2(h)(d-ii) of the Act, has conspicuously skipped the urgency of > defining and explicating such critical expressions found therein as > ‘substantially financed’ and ‘directly or indirectly by funds provided by the > appropriate Government’, as a result of which the whole gamut of NGOs (be > they Societies, Companies, Trusts, Political Parties, Trade Unions, Officers’ > Clubs, Professional Associations of ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check out Yahoo! Buzz. http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
