[rti4empowerment] HC reserves order in PIL for complete cigarette, tobacco ban

 

HC reserves order in PIL for complete cigarette, tobacco ban

The Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench today reserved its order in the PIL filed by us asking for complete ban on manufacture, sale, import etc of cigarette and other tobacco products.

The bench consisting of Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza and Justice D K Upadhyaya heard the arguments presented by us as well as that of the Government of India's Additional Solicitor General K C Kaushik and finally reserved its order.

The PIL says that various international studies by World Health Organization and others have established beyond all doubt that these products cause cancer and other serious diseases and also reduce life expectancy by 10-12 years.

The Government of India also accepted these facts and passed the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 where section 4 prohibits smoking in any public place and section 5 (1) prohibits advertisement of these products.

When the Government fully know the ill-effects of these products and asks each such product to have warning like "smoking kills' and 'smoking causes cancer', it does not seem proper to permit any kind of sale of these products which results in killing of citizen.

Hence, we prayed for complete ban on these products just like many narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

Copy of PIL-

http://amitabhandnutan.blogspot.in/2014/03/copy-of-pil-for-complete-ban-on-tobacco.html

Amitabh Thakur

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[rti4empowerment] Re: [Janshakti] Re: Fw: [Branded Indian] If it’s bizarre, it mu st be Aam Aadmi Party -- Arvind Lavakare

 

Not only the constitution, but the entire judiciary, administration, police, several of the laws, etc. need a thorough overhaul, to enable proper and accountable functioning of the state.

Victor

On Sunday, March 23, 2014 7:54 PM, vasant sardesai <vasant_sardesai@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

 

You are very right; not only constitution, but every other laws that are in force in India including our judiciary system are required to be looked into and ammended to suit the present situation if we want real justice to prevail in India. But for that the firstt necessity is to change the present regime which is the ost corrupt and immoral and unethical and which is trying very hard to retain the present system of governance  through any means possible and that is why its opposition to Modi.

 

V.S.Sardesai  

From: "cityju@rediffmail.com" <cityju@rediffmail.com>
To: Janshakti@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, 23 March 2014 7:05 AM
Subject: [Janshakti] Re: Fw: [Branded Indian] If it's bizarre, it mu st be Aam Aadmi Party -- Arvind Lavakare

 

Why for Delhi special provision was made? While constitution is supreme for democratic governance and  federal union of India, it is not bible. Constitution has been changed 100 times in past when it suited corrupt and opportunist politicians. Those who wrote constitution did it mostly by copy and paste of other constitutions and were no visionaries as made out by congress  led Dalit vote seeking politician goons and scoundrels. Mayawati, Mulayam, Karunannidhi and so many fall in this class. In fact these politicians are pests on society. Indian constitution needs through review and has to be edited significantly. Where is constitution when these political criminals eat money and loot the country  and divide and rule and cause riots? Is it mandate given by constitution. So when I do crimes it is okay with constitution. But when you do something it is unconstitutional. Indian constitution is  theoretical and based on ideals and has brought country to this state after 67 years where rampant corruption , crimes, poverty, lootmar, caste and community divide is created. India as on date is failed democracy as on date.

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[rti4empowerment] Government has not published full census data

 

Government has not published full census data

http://www.sunday-guardian.com/news/government-has-not-published-full-census-data

Government has not published full census data 

The Registrar General admitted this in response to an RTI plea seeking the exact number of transgenders.

NAVTAN KUMAR  New Delhi | 22nd Mar 2014

hree years after completing the 2011 cencus, the government has still not published the final figures. The matter came to light when the office of the Registrar General of India, governed by the Union Home Ministry, admitted in response to an RTI, saying: "The Census 2011 figures not yet published." Census is conducted every 10 years and the last census was conducted in 2011. Lucknow-based RTI activist Sanjay Sharma wanted to know about the numbers of kinnars (transgender community) and welfare schemes initiated for them by the government. This led to a series of communications between him and the government. A shocked Sharma, while speaking to The Sunday Guardian, said he had not expected such a reply from the Ministry. Though so far his RTI focused on the issue of kinnars, he is now planning to file a fresh appeal before the government to clarify whether the government is using "provisional" figures of Census 2011 and also to fnd out why there has been such a big delay in publishing the final Census 2011 figures. "What is even more perplexing is that the Registrar General of India, instead of providing details of kinnars, provided the figures of Kanaura, Kinnara members, who come under the Scheduled Tribe category in Himachal Pradesh. But the annexure giving detailed number of these Himachal tribes gave the earlier Census figures of 2001. This reflects that the government's claims of technological advancements,  including computerisation in India are hollow," said Sharma. "All future developmental schemes are planned on the basis of data collected during the census and non-publication of the final Census 2011 data means that government is still relying on the obsolete census 2001 data," he added. Sharma said he had first approached the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment in January 2014. The Ministry replied that an expert committee has been constituted to look into the problems beings faced by the transgender community and that "the committee is expected to submit its report shortly". As regards their population, the Ministry referred the matter to the Registrar General of India. The Registrar General of India, in February, told the petitioner that "actual number" of kinnars could not be obtained from the Census as three codes (1 for male, 2 for female and 3 for others) were provided while collecting data. As per the reply, "the Census officials were directed to write 3 in case the person concerned was not willing to write code 1 or 2"."Therefore, there is a possibility that people other than kinnars could also have written code 3. There is also a possibility that a kinnar might have written code 1 or 2. Therefore, it is not possible to get the actual number of kinnars," said Vijay Kumar, deputy director of the Office of the Registrar General of India, in his reply to the petitioner. The government had released the provisional data of the 5th Indian Census in 2011, the process for which was conducted for one year starting from 1 April 2010. According to it, the population of India was 1,210,193,422 as of 1 March 2011.

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[rti4empowerment] Fwd: [RTI applications and replies] Aruna ji responsible in conniving with corrupt bureaucrats and giving weak RTI

 

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From: Blogger <no-reply@blogger.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 6:24 AM
Subject: [RTI applications and replies] Aruna ji responsible in conniving with corrupt bureaucrats and giving weak RTI
To: atholiya@gmail.com


 RTI should have enacted a rule that six months prior to retirement of CIC/ SIC govt must announce SIC/CIC elect ( appointed in advance so that seat is not vacant for a single day). Lions, Rotary etc always hv DG elect etc in place mush before seat falls vacant.Similarly RTI must hv provided that SIC/CIC should pass an order on final appeal with in 30 days . And RTI must hv made it mandatory to punish defaulting PIO , FIO when found negligent. These vital points are not taken care off in RTI. Like most other laws this lacuna is purposefully kept in RTI like in most anti corruption and anti criminal laws so the powerful are not punished and vital issues are not addressed. Aruna ji and her colleagues are responsible in giving this weak RTI to all of us and v all r suffering before SIC /CIC where our appeals r lying for years and Gaikwad type of SIC is able to save mischivious PIO's who dodge RTI by not taking action against them..........no one tells u this except Alok .....

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[rti4empowerment] PIL to stop contesting from multiple seats for MLA/MP

 

PIL- Stop contesting from multiple seats for MLA/MP

We all know the various ill-effects we have to face due to the same person getting elected from more than one place for Parliament and the State Assemblies. It involves a huge lot of money, time and energy and also results in vacation of seat unnecessarily.

A PIL has been filed in the Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench, by me and wife Nutan praying for complete ban on any persons contesting from more than one seat in the elections for Parliament and the State Assemblies.

The PIL says that Section 33(7) of the Representation of Peoples Act 1951 permits a person to contest from two places in these elections. Before 1996, a person could contest from any number of seats.

As per the petitioners, this permission to contest and win in the same legislative body from two places is against the various constitutional provisions including Article 101 and 190 related with vacancies of seats in these legislative bodies because these Articles provide specific methods of vacation of seats, which does not include vacation of seats for being elected at two places in the same house, hence praying for declaring such multiple contests as ultra-vires to the Constitution. 

We present a copy of the PIL for ur kind perusal and suggestions please

http://amitabhandnutan.blogspot.in/2014/03/copy-of-pil-to-stop-multiple-seat.html

Amitabh Thakur

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[rti4empowerment] Copy of PIL for complete ban on tobacco products

 

Some friends asked me to send a copy of the PILfor complete ban on tobacco products. Here it is, dear friends--

http://amitabhandnutan.blogspot.in/2014/03/copy-of-pil-for-complete-ban-on-tobacco.html

 

Ur comments and suggestions pl

Amitabh Thakur

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[rti4empowerment] Celebrate 1st Anniversary of e-IPO

 

 Celebrate 1st Anniversary of e-IPO

 It has been one year since the 'Electronic Indian Postal Order' more known as e-IPO was commissioned on 22 March 2013 by the 'Department of Posts' on the initiative of the 'Department of Personnel and Training', to facilitate "Indian Citizens' abroad" to pay RTI Fee in Central Public Authorities.

The  e-IPO facility, provided for our citizens' is available 24X7 and proved to be a big boon.

RECAP :

On 07 October 2013, e-IPO facility was extended to include 176 Indian Missions/Posts in the existing list.

 With inclusion of  176 Missions/Post, the e-IPO facility covered 2496 Central Public Authorities including NCT Delhi and UTs.

 Now was the time to open the e-IPO facility for our Citizens' living in India. Thus the 'Department of Posts' on 13 February 2014 extended the e-IPO facility for 'Indian Citizens' living in India too. Now Indian Citizens' living any where across the globe started using e-IPO facility for payment of RTI Fee.

Presently e-IPO facility can be used for payment of only RTI Fee of Rs.10.00. It works better on "Firefox' and 'Google Chrome'  browsers.

 Once again I extend greetings to you all.

Lokesh

{Commodore Lokesh Batra (Retd.)}

BringChangeNow

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