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'कुर्सी'
के साथ’
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में धरना देंगे आरटीआई कार्यकर्ता
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Lucknow:
Coming Sunday RTI activists shall stage a demonstration near the Uttar Pradesh
State Information Commission (UPSIC) in Lucknow to protest against the arrest
of RTI activist Siva Elango in Tamilnadu. Activists shall raise a demand that
all judicial and quasi-judicial bodies in the country should offer a chair
during proceedings. Members of various Social Organizations of Uttar Pradesh
shall also participate in the protest
against the inhumane act of arrest of Elango.
RTI
activist Elango was arrested for taking a seat during a hearing before a two
member bench of chief information commissioner K S Sripathi and commissioner S
F Akbar of Tamil Nadu State Information Commission.
UPSIC
has also been harassing RTI applicants and they are killing the RTI Act. UPSIC
too, has even neglected the basic right of activists to sit during a hearing.
Previously IC Arvind Singh Bisht sent Senior Citizen RTI activist Ashok Kumar
Goyal to jail and very recently same IC misbehaved with another Senior Citizen
RTI activist named Mahendra Agarwal. Activists in Uttar Pradesh are now scared
to appear in appeal proceedings in commissions as they may lodge cases against
them.
Activists
shall raise the demand to dismiss all the commissions across the country and
reconstitute them in a transparent manner to ensure that persons of real
eminence, intact integrity and of Humane mindset be seated there because today
the only jobs these commissions are performing are to reject RTI applications and demoralize RTI
applicants by harassing them as the commissions allow government officials to
sit during the hearings, but they insist RTI applicants to stand till the proceedings
ends to demoralize them.
The
commissions are going easy on public information officers (PIOs) who delay and
deny information. Though the commissions
should impose a penalty of up to Rs 25,000 on a PIO for failing to furnish
information within 30 days and for deliberately providing incorrect, incomplete
and misleading information but they are seldom doing it.
In
UP activists have long been campaigning against appointments of information
commissions at UPSIC as they all are incapable persons having close connections
with ruling political parties.
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