RTI activists meet in UP
RTI activists from across the state are meeting in Aligarh to discuss
the problems and solutions of RTI movement in Uttar Pradesh
CJ: urvashi sharma Sat, Oct 30, 2010 20:14:05 IST
IN UTTAR Pradesh, Right to Information (RTI) activists are struggling
head to nail to empower the masses and spread awareness about RTI.
However, sometimes they pay the price of their bravery with unforeseen
and unwarranted situations in their personal lives.
In order to add more muscle to their movement and to give a new
meaning to RTI movement in UP, activists from across the state are
meeting in Aligarh on 30th October 2010. To moot out ways to
strengthen RTI movement in Uttar Pradesh is their core objective.
The meet shall discuss various issues including complaints from
activists across the state about concerned authorities who are
denouncing the RTI Act and blocking information purposely. The
harassment of the activists at various levels and how to keep a check
on it, ways to devise a practical mechanism of coordinating the RTI
activities in the state to ensure optimum benefit of the Act to the
society and basically bring about some accountability in society by
addressing the above issues is the aim.
"We shall discuss the existing non-transparent
selection procedure of the State Information Commissioners and shall
later raise our demands to the Government that the process be changed
to have more accountability and public participation in the process,"
said activists Usha, Prabhuta and Saleem Baig from Lucknow .
The meet shall conclude on 31 October 2010.
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Urvashi Sharma
RTI Helpmail( Web Based )
aishwaryaj2010@gmail.com
Mobile Rti Helpline
8081898081 ( 8 A.M. to 10 P.M. )
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