Friday, October 15, 2010

RTI Activist taken to court

I have gone through news item published in the Indian Express, New Delhi, Today, i.e; 15.10.2010 under caption:
"RTI Activist call Orissa CIC 'buffoons' taken to court". We have to think over it ? We have to assess the working of information commissions and pattern of proceedings in the commission, Pradhan and Behra told nothing wrong that the information commissioners behaving like a court. In the RTI Act, there is no provision to call the information seeker in hearing because Information Commissioners do not have such powers under the RTI Act, I endorse the views and comments given by Pradhan and Behra, RTI Activists of Orissa. The information commissions require diagnosis and pathology. Delay breeds corruption must be remembered by all whoever he may be. The second point for considerations is the process for appointment of chief of CIC and Information Commissioners must be reviewed by a high power committee consisting of persons like VR Krishna Iyer, Dr. NR Madhav Menon, Somnath Chatterjee, Prashant Bhusan, Dr. Jagdish Gandhi, Justice Suresh, Arvind Kejriwal, Shailesh Gandhi and likewise persons so that dead woods may not be accommodated in the information commissions, the matter is of great importance and persons involved in RTI movement requested to suggest some ways and means to rectify the problem.

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