the recommendations of the experts as precipitated in the seminar
shall be sent to the info-commission and ARD of u p govt , the CCIC n
DARPG. for consideration n implementation.
regards
urvashi
On 3/21/10, Amitabh Thakur <amitabhth@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Friends,
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> The
> National RTI Forum organized a two hour Seminar on 20th
> March 2010 at IIM Lucknow, Sitapur Road, Lucknow from 11 AM to 1 PM. The
> topic
> of the Seminar was- "RTI Act and the view of the State Legislators". The
> people were welcomed by Dr Manoj Pandey,
> Secretary, LUACTA. It was followed by an introductory presentation on the
> RTI
> Act and its various facets by me. I particularly emphasized upon the goal of
> transparency and accountability of the RTI Act. I also dwelt at length about
> the section 8(1)(a) to 8(1)(j) of the Act under which various Information
> can
> be withheld and the way these sections are presumably misused by the public
> authorities in denying information. I quoted three examples of Satish
> Shetty,
> Poone, Shashidhar Mishra, Begusarai and
> Venkatesh of Eeranapalya who have been murdered exactly for being RTI
> activists
> calling them "RTI Martyrs".
>
> This was followed by Anup Sanda, MLA,
> Sultanpur. He narrated his own experiences as a social worker and was
> quite in consonance with the woes of the RTI activists saying that there was
> a
> huge delay in the Information being disseminated to the RTI activists. He
> emphasized upon the need for having much stringent penalties for the public
> authorities violating the provisions of law. Sri Siddharth Shankar (MLA,
> Malihabad)
> said that RTI is a Fundamental Right. He said there was a huge red-tapism
> that
> needed to be removed immediately. He wanted the officials to be personally
> responsible for the derelictions. Vivek Singh (MLA Banda) said that with RTI
> Act even the common masses have acquired the rights previously limited to
> the
> National and State Legislators. RTI is the ultimate weapon to control the
> belligerent MLAs and MPs. He said that when even the Hon'ble Supreme Court
> had
> to bow down before the might of the RTI Act then what is to be said of the
> ordinary public authorities. Sanjeev Dwivedi, MLC emphasized upon the
> relevance
> and importance of RTI Act in day-to-day life of common masses. Yashwant
> Singh
> (MLC) said that RTI is a big weapon and we must all use it properly. Mata
> Prasad Pandey, ex Speaker of UP Vidhan Sabha said that he as a part of
> legislature would try his best to make amendments wherever there are lacunae
> in
> the Act. He wanted such changes to be made which would make its provisions
> more
> binding over the public authorities and more detrimental.
>
> Among those present, Pooja Sikera asked about the possibilities of making
> RTI
> more effectively in the rural areas. RTI Activist Akhilesh Saxena came up
> with
> many important suggestions for amendments where he felt the Act was lacking
> behind. Mahendra Singh of Project Vijay asked about some issues pertaining
> to a
> private University related to RTI Act. Dev Dutt Sharma raise issues related
> to the
> present State Election Commissioner Ranjit Pankaj and asked the State
> legislator's
> support on that.
>
> More than hundred RTI activists and social workers participated in the
> Seminar.
>
> Dr Nutan Thakur, Convenor of the Forum, thanked the audience in the end
> asking
> them all to work for the cause of RTI in a better way. She also requested
> the
> present State legislators to do something in the way of increasing the
> number
> of employees in the State Information Commission so that the burden of the
> SIC
> is reduced to which the Legislators agreed and assured to bring this matter
> in
> the forthcoming Assembly session. Dr Mukesh Mishra conducted the program.
>
> We, from the Forum, are planning to have another Seminar soon on any burning
> topic related with RTI Act. I request you all to kindly assist us by
> providing
> some of your extremely valuable suggestions.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Amitabh Thakur
>
> IPS,
>
> IIM Lucknow,
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> # 94155-34526
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Urvashi Sharma
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pin - 226017 , Uttar Pradesh INDIA
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