Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Re: [rti4empowerment] Re: [rtikerala] Activists’ reaction to SM’s selection as Chief Information Commissioner

 

दोस्तों भारतीय राजनीति एक कोयले की कोठरी के सामान है इसमे जो भी प्रवेश करेगा उसके उजले कपड़ो में कालिख जरुर लगेगी, हमारे जो भी साथी इस राजनीति रूपी काल कोठरी में जाये उन्हें बहुत सावधानी बरतनी पड़ेगी तथा उसी सावधानी से इसकी साफ़ सफाई भी करनी होगी


Bimal Khemani
RTI activist
ALIGARH-202001
INDIA
Mob:935-972-4625


--- On Tue, 14/12/10, REJIMON C K <rejimonck@gmail.com> wrote:

From: REJIMON C K <rejimonck@gmail.com>
Subject: [rti4empowerment] Re: [rtikerala] Activists' reaction to SM's selection as Chief Information Commissioner
To: rtikerala@yahoogroups.co.in
Cc: rti4empowerment@yahoogroups.com, "Dr Mohd Naved Khan RTIgroup" <mohdnavedkhan@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, 14 December, 2010, 8:41 PM

 
I agree with you
Now how can we CHANGE. Whether the tools like RTI or PIL will help us?. Any order or direction implimentation again lies with administration which is controlled by  politicians.. Its DIE HARD FACT.
I think like minded and well intentional citizen should SNEAK into political parties WHICH hold power for everything. There lies the CHANGE of Command.
Unfortunately many of us including myself will distance from political parties.
But with hearing all these statment I would suggest to few at least try out that option.
I may be wrong..
Rejimon

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Krishnaraj Rao <sahasipadyatri@gmail.com> wrote:
 

14 Dec 2010: Satyananda Mishra's selection as Chief Central Information Commissioner, three months after the selection of another former DOPT secretary A N Tiwari, has many dimensions. Today's TOI Mumbai (copy-pasted at bottom) has reported it well. Let us objectively analyze the positive and negative aspects.

 

First the dark side:

 

a)      Hiring the DOPT Secretary is Chief information Commissioner is like hiring the ISI chief for the job of Human Rights Commissioner in Kashmir. DOPT is the dirty-tricks department of Govt. of India. It is the right-hand of PMO, and has powers to hire-and-fire and lynch (or exonerate) virtually any bureaucrat, anywhere in India. It controls CBI, CVC and virtually all vigilance functions of the government. Read this govt. manual: http://tinyurl.com/AboutDOPT

 

b)      Satyananda Mishra (like his predecessor) is a former DOPT Secretary who abused his  privileged position to enter Central Information Commission. Despite having many eligible candidates, Satyananda Mishra made the shortlist list so short that it reduced the PM's selecting committee into a mere rubber stamp. These actions were then concealed by PMO, DoPT and Wajahat Habibullah (then the Chief Info. Committioner) with strange reasoning and self-contradictory statements. See here: http://tinyurl.com/CICduplicity Documents that finally came out last year revealed S Mishra's abuse of trust and unconstitutional behaviour. See latter part of this document: http://tinyurl.com/SMishra1

 

a)      It was sneaky and secretive – an inside-job between PMO and DOPT. There was no announcement of when the Prime Minister's selection committee was to meet, and nobody knows who were the candidates considered, and whether any civil-society members were considered at all. It was a slap on the face of civil society. This is part of a larger problem that makes all such appointments malafide. For details, read "How Babus steal power from Civil Society: http://tinyurl.com/ThiefBabus1

 

 

Now the bright side:

One hears quite a few good things about Satyananda Mishra from the appellants who have appeared before him. What one hears is from well informed RTI activists like C J Karira and Girish Mittal is:

·         SM gives logically reasoned orders
·         Uses technology to ensure that his hearing proceedings are transcribed the same day and promptly converted into orders
·         Holds hearings within 4-5 months of appeal being filed, has a decent disposal speed, is an efficient office administrator and maintains records well
·         Is generally pro-disclosure, and puts the onus of justifying denial of information on the Public Information Officer and Public Authority.
·         Often reveals his stand at the end of hearings and gives a general sense of direction as to what he will write in his order.
·         He is an intelligent and reasonable man, who has shown guts and independent mind to take on the administration, and generally uphold the logical structure of the RTI Act.
·         The only negative thing is that he is not too keen to impose penalty.
·         All said, he is the best man that they could have handpicked for the job out of all the existing Central Information Commissioners.

 

In view of all this, I feel that Satyananda Mishra's selection as Chief CIC is bad, but not terrible. Things could have been a lot worse.

 

However, we can still explore the possibility of going to Court to oppose his appointment, as it is overall an untoward appointment.

 

I now await the views of other activists and appellants – especially those who have appeared before him.

 

Warm Regards,

Krish

98215 88114

 

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Report from TOI Mumbai page 12:

Satyanand Mishra set to be new CIC
Activists Cry Ignored,Ex-DoPT Secy Chosen

 

Himanshi Dhawan TNN
New Delhi: Information commissioner Satyanand Mishra has been appointed the new chief information commissioner to succeed A N Tiwari.The decision was taken by a high-level committee headed by PM Manmohan Singh that included Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj and law minister Veerappa Moily on Monday.The appointment has been sent for presidential approval as required under law.

Mishra,who earlier held charge as secretary in the department of personnel and training (DoPT),is the seniormost IC.He took over as IC on September 5,2008,and his tenure will continue till September 2013.I have not been officially informed about the appointment, Mishra said.

He is expected to take over from Tiwari by December-end.He will be the third bureaucrat to take charge as CIC after Wajahat Habibullah and Tiwari.Incidentally,the CIC had recently sent a resolution passed by all ICs except one emphasizing that a successor should be from within the commission.The commissioners felt in the interest of continuity,morale and harmonious functioning and the smooth and incremental evolution of the RTI regime,it was necessary the healthy convention of selecting the CIC from within the commission be established and followed.

RTI activists have been campaigning against the overwhelming number of bureaucrats in the commission.

A study by Society for Participatory Research in Asia found that one of the hindering factors in the implementation of the RTI Act was the overrepresentation of members from administration and governance,particularly retired IAS officers.




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REJIMON C K.
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