""BABUDOM STIFLING RTI ""...................DHANJAY mAHAPATRA (TNN) ...... NEW DELHI
A Man seeking land registration details in a village through RTI Act was asked to pay a fee in excess of 21lakhs ,
When a BPL person put up an RTI query on distruution of Food grains under PDS he was told to deposit Rs 2000/- to get the information.
Citing , these and many such examples , Advocate Sanjeeb Panigrahi has filed a PIL in supreme court saying that the 8 year old Act, which was enacted to bring transparency in Governance by sharing information with citizens was struggling to achive the objective because of bureacratic red tape.
The Petitioner said that though RTI act has penalty provisions for delay in information by PIO's the penalty provisionwas invoked in 4%of cases,leading to a perception among citizens and civil rights groups that information commissions were being umwarrentedly lenient towards PIOs/
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MY COMMENTS :
A Real Good move But if all other state Travelers in RTI , were also involved it would be still effective step. Of course INFO COMM's are the weakest links .
1) Can somebody trace this Advocate and secure the Petition & circulate
2) Please study the Petition and get yourself involved in as Intervening Parties
vikramsimha.
N vikramsimha , KRIA Katte , #12 Sumeru Sir M N Krishna Rao Road , Basvangudi < Bangalore 560004.
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