RTI decay
Nineteen years ago, on 12 October 2005, India took a bold step toward enhancing transparency and accountability with the enactment of the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
Nineteen years ago, on 12 October 2005, India took a bold step toward enhancing transparency and accountability with the enactment of the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
The report relies on data obtained under the Right to Information (RTI) Act between April 2022 and March 2023. As many as 124 RTI applications were filed across 28 states and two Union territories.
Many skeletons are tumbling out of the cupboards of election bonds and many more will, highlighting the unholy nexus between political parties and businesses.
Drawing the attention of Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena to an RTI report on the maintenance work at Delhi CM's house, Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Delhi unit chief Virendra Sachdeva requested for an ACB or Vigilance inquiry into alleged irregularities in the matter.
A decree to rope in the board under RTI provisions was pronounced by the state Information Commission while hearing a petition filed against the denial of information by the Piran Kaliyar Dargah Management.
The LIC has confirmed this in a reply to an RTI application by a Kolkata-based queer couple, Suchandra Das and Sree Mukherjee.
The BJP has slammed the TMC government after glaring facts came to the fore as activist Bishwanath Goswami in a right to information.
Till 30 April, 2022, the institute has a total of 305 sanctioned faculty posts of which 226 are filled up and 79 are lying vacant, the AIIMS authorities replied to a RTI query by activist Akhand.
"The basis of democracy is that people are supreme rather than the Governor, Chief Minister, or opposition leader... all are expected to serve the people. They are not the boss of the people,"
Former Siliguri mayor and former state urban development and municipal affairs minister Asok Bhattacharya today said that they would seek the information on the money given by the Bengal Unitech Universal.
