1 hour ago: http://www.samaylive.com/news/manmohan-singh-advani-to-choose-new-information-chief-friday/668321.html
"According to a senior official of the DoPT (Department of Personnel and Training), the nodal government department to handle RTI: "Present information commissioner M.M. Ansari and RTI activist Shekhar Singh are the frontrunners." Till a couple of days ago, Shekhar Singh was the favourite, but officials stated that at present the scale is heavily tilted in favour of Ansari."Ansari's name is almost finalised," an official added." http://www.indianexpress.com/news/We-aren-t-schoolkids--won-t-accept-demeaning-RTI-awards--Wajahat/544068 Calling it “demeaning,” Central Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah has said that information commissioners will not accept “RTI awards” to be announced by Public Cause Research Foundation (PCRF) founded by Magsaysay Award winner and activist Arvind Kejriwal. Kejriwal, incidentally, is also behind the campaign to push for Kiran Bedi as Habibullah’s replacement. “We have called a weekly meeting of information commissioners and decided not to accept awards. We have already told the organizers. Information Commissioners are not in competition with each other. Giving awards to information commissioners is shamely de-meaning us, we are not schoolchildren. The Information Commissions work as a unified whole,” Habibullah said. Habibullah has resigned to take up his new assignment in J&K. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rti_india/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rti_india/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
