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You can now access your Credit Information Report (CIR) directly from CIBIL.

bahl_ajay — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:58:15 GMT

You can now access your Credit Information Report (CIR) directly from CIBIL. As you may be aware, your CIBIL CIR is a factual record of your credit payment history compiled from information received from credit grantors. The purpose is to help credit grantors make informed lending decisions - quickly and objectively, and enable faster processing of your credit applications to help provide you speedier access to credit at better terms.
You can request a copy of your CIBIL CIR as follows:
Letter: Address
1. Write to CIBIL with the CIR Request Form duly filled in
2. Also mail self attested hardcopies of your Identity Proof1 and lastest Address Proof2 documents and Fees3 to P.O.BOX 17, Millennium Business Park, Navi Mumbai- 400710
3. Once CIBIL receives the documents and Fees3, your request will be processed and copy of your CIR will be dispatched to you.

1. Valid Identity Proof: PAN Card/ Passport/ Voters ID (Mail self attested hard copy of any one of these Identity Proofs)
2. Valid Address Proof: Latest Bank Account Statement/ Electricity Bill/ Telephone bill (Mail self attested hard copy of any one of these Address Proofs)
3. Payment terms: Demand Draft (DD) of Rs 142/- (inclusive of all taxes and express delivery charge) , in favour of Credit Information Bureau (India) Limited payable at Mumbai
Please note that the fee once paid is non-refundable.

Collection of information

jps50 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:03:05 GMT

NOTE ON COLLECTING AND COMPILING OF INFORMATION UNDER RTI ACT 2005ffice:office" />

DECISIONS OF CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION:

Appeal No.CIC/WB/A/2007/01551 & 1552
Appellant - Shri P. Veerappan
Respondent - Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT)
Decided on 06-04-2009

This direction is defective on the ground that collection of information can in no account be constituted to amount to the creation of information.

[ Please also refer DoPT Office Memorandum dated 01-06-2009 appended at the end]
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Complaint No. CIC/WB/C/2007/00931
Appeal No.CIC/WB/A/2008/00886
Appellant - Mr. Muzibur Rahman
Respondent - Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Decided on 28-08-2008
http://cic.gov.in/CIC-Orders/WB-28082008-06.pdf

Appeal No.CIC/MA/A/2006/00653 refers to a public authority referrelative="t" o:spt="75" coordsize="21600,21600">not being expected to �create and generate afresh information � where none exists, �because it is sought by an appellant�. Where the information already exists and the issue is simply compiling it to provide an applicant, it is quite clearly the responsibility of the CPIO who is expected to collate the existing information and provide it to the applicant, in the form ordinarily to be provided in which it is sought.
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Appeal No. CIC/WB/A/2007/00522 dated 1-4-2007
Appellant: Shri B. Madhusoodhanan Nair, Ernakulam
Respondent: Indian Rare Earths Ltd., Mumbai
Decision dated 26-09-2008
http://cic.gov.in/CIC-Orders/WB-26092008-03.pdf

Notwithstanding the above, however we are of the opinion after
discussing with CPIO that the information sought against question no. 4 of the RTI application will take not more than 2-3 days to compile since all that is required is 38 names together with their qualifications. Because appellant is facing difficulty in visiting the office of Indian Rare Earths Ltd. In order to inspect the files the CPIO has no objection to mailing this to him, which he has agreed to do.

CPIO Shri Sridharan will now compile and provide to appellant Shri
Madhusoodhanan Nair a summary of the list of candidates who applied against the said notification with their education qualification and experience and courier the same to him within 10 working days of the date of receipt of this decision notice.
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Appeal No. CIC/WB/A/2007/00999 dated 16-12-2006
Appellant: Shri Satya Narain Shukla, IAS (Rtd)
Respondent: Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)
Decision dated 08-05-2008
http://cic.gov.in/CIC-Orders/WB-08052008-02.pdf

Moreover, Section 7 (9)of the RTI Act clearly states that �an information should ordinarily be provided in the form in which it is sought1�. It is therefore, the duty of the CPIO to compile the information and provide it in the manner sought by appellant unless this would disproportionately divert the resources of the public authority or would be detrimental to the safety or preservation of the record in question.
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Complaint No.CIC/WB/C/2007/00345 dated 16.5.2007
Appellant - Sh. Karthik Jayashankar
Respondent - Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF)
Date of decision 18-02-2008
http://cic.gov.in/CIC-Orders/Decision_18022008_02.pdf

We agree with learned Counsel assisting appellant Ms. Lakshmi Jayashankar�s rejoinder quoted above that none of the grounds decided upon for denying information is valid. Under Rule 4 (a) of the RTI Act (Regulation of Fee & Cost Rules) 2005 which came into force on September 16, 2005 a fee is expected to be charged for each page �created or copied�, which indicates that all information held by or under the control of any public authority is accessible to the public as is covered by the �right to information� defined in sec. 2(j), even when it needs to �collected�. This is, of course, subject to the exceptions laid down in sec. 7(1).
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DoPT OFFICE MEMORANDUM No. 10/2/2008-IR dated 01-06- 2009

www.rti.gov.in

�Attention is invited to clause (iii) of para 3 of this Department's OM of even number dated 12th June, 2008 on the above noted subject which, inter-alia, states as follows:

"It is beyond the scope of the Act for a public authority to create information. Collection of information, parts of which are available with different public authorities,
would amount to creation of information which a public authority under the Act is not required to do."

2. The Central Information Commission while deciding an appeal has observed that collection of information cannot amount to creation of information and desired that the above referred ffice:smarttags" />OM should be modified so as to avoid any confusion among public authorities.

3. The undersigned is directed to clarify that the OM dated 12.6.2008 does not propose to say that collection of information per se amounts to creation of information. The above referred statement has been made to emphasize that the public authority to whom the application is made is not required to collect information from different public authorities to supply it to the applicant.� [emphasis added]

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Not satisfied with decision of information commissioner?

jps50 — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:39:06 GMT

Large number of appellants/complainants is not satisfied with decisions of Information Commissioners [ICs]. However, since there is no provision of review of decisions of ICs at SIC or CIC level, the only remedy lies in filing a writ petition in High Court. This is costly, time consuming and outcome is also uncertain.

I suggest that whenever appellant/complainant is not satisfied with decision of an IC, he should represent the matter in personal name of concerned IC, with copy to Chief Information Commissioner and Secretary of DoPT, New Delhi and Head of Dept which oversees RTI act in the state. The representation should be detailed one, preferably drafted by experience RTI activist, with all supporting averments or earlier decisions of other SIC/CIC in similar matter.

If this is followed, it will have administrative, moral, positive and persuasive pressure on ICs to refine their future decisions and approach towards information seekers. They will realize that their decisions are being audited by public. Creation of record of defective decisions will also be a deterrent. Govt and Chief Information Commissioner can take administrative steps to correct the situation. There are small solutions to big problems. Little money, time and efforts will have salutary bearing on decisions of ICs, if large number of aggrieved citizens act against faulty decisions of ICs.

Draft of letter to be addressed is attached, which can be used with changes to suit each individual decision.

Attached Files

LETTER TO IC.doc (23.0 KB, 29 views)

THE ANATOMY & THE HISTORY OF DIVISIVE POLITICS

SANJOG MAHESHWARI — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:20:16 GMT

We started out on our journey as republic with divisive politics. In fact, the malady is inextricably ingrained in the very system of our governance. It was for his successively leading the Congress Party to the winning post in all the general elections fought under his leadership on the strength of solid Muslim votes assiduously cultivated, fostered and nourished by him, that India�s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru earned the tag: �The First Muslim Prime Minister of India.�

He inherited the British policy of �Divide & Rule� disguised it in �Quota & Reservation in jobs etc. for the selected sections of the society� on the basis of their �social� as against �economic� status, which has since reinvented itself, many times over, and in multiple forms, penetrating deep in the civic society and the polity, and has since come to be universally recognised, with loads of trepidation and frustration, as �Divisive Politics.�

While the minority (read Muslim) vote-bank still continues to remain the mainstay of the Congress Party�s political culture, the divisive politics, over the years, has displayed the uncanny tendency to blossom forth into multiple strains as it hybridized into V.P.Singh�s �Muslim-S.C &S.T.-OBC� variety, several years ago, but is still being fondly cultivated. fostered, and nurtured by the likes of Mulayam Singh, Mayawati, Amar Singh- the list is long. Public memory is proverbially short, but not so short as to forget how this strain of divisive- identity politics once catapulted the one of the wiliest cats of the jungle of U.P. politics to the top post, and brought the other one dangerously close to grab it.

However, in the sixties when it tried to spread its vicious tentacles in Maharashtra, the awakened and enlightened Marathi people could not resist but to counter it by breeding and developing its yet another strain. Their great leader- Bal Thackeray- founded Shiv Sena in the fifties. Under the leadership of much-venerated Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray, they went ahead to cultivate and breed � Regional-cultural-linguistic� variety of it, christened �Maharashtra for Marathi.� As the poison kills poison, this culture is now proving a lethal weapon, not only against the divisive politics as such, but mainly so against those who, till recently, have been reaping bumper harvest of political gains by gleefully perpetuating it for the furtherance of their own entrenched vested interests for several decades now. It looks extremely ridiculous on their part when they criticise the most respected leader of the region for something what their own leadership had earlier invented and used to the hilt to repeatedly gain political mileage over its rivals in the politics in all its spheres. During the earlier seventies, the writer of these lines spent about 6 years in Nagpur where he, even then as a very young school-going boy, could palpably perceive the all pervading influence of the leader over the people.

Pretensions to the contrary apart, divisive politics of quota/Reservation in government jobs, seats in the educational institutions and other such matters selectively for certain targeted groups, even if draped and decked with the covering of social justice, does what it would invariably do-i.e. Dividing the nation,. Such act of preference to selective groups or communities, by any name, certainly disadvantages other communities, and as a consequence, keeps the nation divided. Unfortunately, the politicians across the board, cutting party-lines, keep sitting pretty while the governments run by them perpetuate this worst form of racism albeit in disguise of social justice even if it results in fragmentation of society, and divides the nation. Divisive politics by any other name cannot get any less vile. You cannot fool all the people all the time.

Where this politics of exclusiveness, quota/reservation, identity and vote-bank, religious-cultural-linguistic chauvinism, the stuff by which the Divisive Politics is made, would lead us to- Balkanisation of the nation, where else?

The interesting, though hugely disturbing, aspect of the phenomenon is that the quick-fix-solutions, instead of containing the malady which is inextricably intertwined with our very system of governance, go only to fuel its growth in different strains and forms. As no political outfit or individual can gain any ascendency over its rivals without resorting to it, it would be highly despicable and downright in the bad taste to blame any individual politician or political party for embracing it in pursuance of their cherished political ambitions.

The culture of identity and selective politics and the politics of vote bank is integral to our system of governance and we will have to live with the evil so long as this system lasts. For winning the next election, all that a ruling political party needs to do is to distribute huge largesse from the Exchequer among the selected, targeted groups at the material time, during the run up of general elections. Thanks to the system, such ad-hoc measures have paid rich political dividends all the time in every election in the past, and can safely be relied upon for gaining political mileage over the rivals in the politics, in future as well.

The divisive politics has its roots in our system and as such it will require overhauling the system itself, if we are interested in destroying it-lock, stock and barrel. Blaming the individual politicians or the political parties for the evil is tantamount to not seeing the wood for the trees, and prove counterproductive.

The remedy lies only in replacing this system with the American Presidential model, and sooner we replaced our Westminster type Parliamentary form of governance by the Presidential model, the better it would be for the health of our democracy.

Rights of employees under the epf scheme

taurus — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:46:34 GMT

Each member of the EPF have many rights as provided under the EPF Act and Scheme.

Right to membership of PF, Pension and EDLI Schemes for every employee of covered establishment drawing monthly Basic pay and D.A. upto Rs.6500/-
To receive Annual Statement of Provident Fund account by 30th September of the following year.
To obtain claim form free of cost from any Provident Fund Office.
To obtain assistance/guidance from Public Relations Officers in filling up of forms.
To submit claim applications in any office of EPFO and obtain acknowledgement.
To get Partial Withdrawals settled within a maximum period of 30 days for specified purposes on its receipt in full shape.
To get claim of Final Withdrawals settled within 30 days from the date of submission of claim in full shape.
To get the accumulations transferred to your new account within 30 days on change of employment.
To execute nomination for receiving provident fund accumulations/pension.
To register grievance and get redressal.
To approach officer-in-charge of any office for redressal of grievance without prior appointment.
To receive guaranteed monthly payment of pension even in case of non- payment of dues by employer.
To receive provident fund dues from Special Reserve Fund:
- In case of non-payment by employer of contribution deducted from wages.
- In case of non-payment by the employer of establishment closed for more than 5 years.
- In case of fraudulent withdrawal from your account.

Attached Files

BILL OF RIGHTS OF EMPLOYEES.pdf (58.9 KB, 239 views)

Chief justice of india under rti act a � historic�judgement upheld by delhi high court today 12th of jan 2010

journalist — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:45:47 GMT

CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA UNDER RTI ACT A � HISTORIC� JUDGEMENT UPHELD BY DELHI HIGH COURT TODAY 12th OF JAN 2010

Chief Justice of India now Comes Under the RTI ( Right to information Act ) It�s a historic Judgement which is upheld its singal bench order by the comprising Chief Justice A.P .Shah & S.Muralidhar with Vikramjeet sen said that when the Subordinate Judiciary is already declaring their assets so when they are accountable so why we not when the higher is the judiciary , then the accountability is higher towards and citizen of India .

By these verdict the Judges assured that thet too will declare their assets next week , and the RTI Act has over � reaching impact to citizens who require such information should not misuse the information , thus for saving the freedom of Judiciary .

Income tax & Medical records will not be revealed under RTI but if Public interest is attached then the that too will be disclosed .

Once Attorney General Goolam E.Vahanvati appearing for the apex Court had contended that the resolution regarding declaration of assets by Judges was non � statutory and non binding & it could not force to any judge to declare assets to CJI and now for the better future of India transparency is needed because India`s future is in new genaration and every one has to come forward to fight against corruption and must make India a corruptionless nation for the dignity of common man .

But after the judgement on sep 02 , 2009 verdict Chief Justice of India and his office will be under RTI ACT was not accepting by CJI K.G.Balakrishnan and he told that his office is beyond the perview of the RTI Law , So at last RTI Act has to be insists and implemented to the higher and honarabl`e court of India that is Supreme Court of India .

For these Prominent Lawyer Prashant Bhushan termed as a � Historic �Verdict of the delhi high court holding the office of the Chief Justice of India with in the ambit of Right to Information ( RTI) Act. In this Lawyer Prashant Bhushan appeared for the RTI Activist Subhash C Agraval seeking Judges to declae their Assets and finaly they got their achievements .

So now the Chief Justice of India ( Honarabl`e Court of India ) Supreme Court and its office will be under the Perview of RTI Act ( Right to Information ) a real and transparent judgement by the Honarabl`e court of Delhi given and upheld the Judgement and now with next week the CJI and office bears has to show their assets as a transparent humanity and for the better improvement of the nation .
we recpect the court and the citizen of india ( common man ) always wants a transparent , Accurate and Fast Judgement in India .

Election Identity Card and in that change of Address to be done Mandatory in India

journalist — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:59:35 GMT

Election Identity Card and in that change of Address to be done Mandatory in India .

At present if a person shiffted from one place to another place he goes to electoral office or dept for requesting the change of address but unfortunatly its govt drawback that perticular months are given for these and that too are not sure, because Identity card is an important ID which can be shown in many other office procedures and if their is not correction in address then it make difficult to manage the officers because these things are common to all and in this Ration Card , Electoral Identity card , pan card , these all are very important things and for every one these cards are to show in any feild like form , applications , jobs, pan card appy, and other imortant forms were these has to be shown and for these the state govt and central govt should make the electoral identity card and ration card change of address to be mandatory and must be open separate counter with aknowlegment to be give when a person is applying for a change of address .

Here in Tamil Nadu no dept is giving correct aknowlegment and by taking to task then only they are giving aknowledgement these all must be checked strictly by election commission of india and the state election commission of india to direct the district collector and district election officer to take the Card and as son as possible to give it to the person concern but its fact that in india these are all make a total corruption and beaurocracy , after giving for change of address in electon identity 4 to 5 months gone and these officers ( election commission of india and election commission of Tamil nadu ) cannot send a reply why its a big ? So the Election Commission of India must direct the state election commission of all states to make a appropriate step to send a common circular to district collectors to make the "Election Identity card and changes of Address to be mandatory" other wise this all are the major drawbacks that every citizen of india are the sufferer.

Even i my self its fact that with in a second in Ration card I got change of address but in election identity card 5 months gone no result and these all are the big draw back in Indian system , because a transfer or a change of house from one place to another is common factor and when a ID number is on the Election Card then its a simple process whatsoever a fees to be taken and for change of address only back side will be changed by taking the appropriate receipt of house tax receipt , therefore the RTI India has to send a memorandom to Election Commission of india to direct the state govt and district collector to make Election Identity card and in that change of address to be mandatory so that every citizen of india must get their rights to get Election Identity Card and Ration Card along with change of address as a Mandatory .........

RTI Act & Income Tax Returns....

Singh.Manish — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:49:08 GMT

I just wanted to know that whether we can use RTI Act in finding out the Income Tax returns filed by some person.

I have been told by my friend that there was an article in Newspaper dated 7th January, 2009 stating that " CIC has given permission that if anyone asks for it under RTI Act the Income Tax department will have to hand over the Information."

If 'Yes' so what is the procedure for it..

Action against an Advocate.....

Singh.Manish — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:40:25 GMT

My sister-in-Law has decided to file a case against Education Officer due to the fault of the Officer which he has committed.

The Advocate looking after the case of my Sister in Law's failed to file the case from last five months even though each and every document is been handed to him. It seems that he was interested in cornering his fees and not in case and I suspect that he may have taken the money from the Officer (as he knows him).

I just wanted to know is there any way or can we approach someone or some Higher Authority through RTI Act, so that we can file a complaint against the Advocate we have hired so that he would follow a discipline approach towards his work and file the case....

illegal Capturing others sites and Constructing building increased in Tamil Nadu

journalist — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:05:22 GMT

Be Alert Site Owners the illegal Construction and capturing others site increased in tamil nadu as well as in India , the Contractors and the Power Agents taking this type of job neglecting owners present and finally the land and house goes in dispute site and the contractors took their money by constructing houses very fast without providing plan approvel and at last the buyer, and the deviation done by the contractors by violating the Town and country planning Acts they are selling the houses for the money .

Now a days the land value increased and the contractors and the Power Agent persons putting blind to govt officials and make forged documents and they get registered by registrar and the registrar not even scrutiny the document after giving objection letter by the people whose land the contractor illegally took by forged to register the document , and construction they start and finally they sell the house by cheating the buyers .

These all are big crime going in India and the officers too know all about these but very few cases the LPA or DTCP taking action against them , At present more than 85% of houses are going constructed in Tamil Nadu were without plan approval the work are progress, and for all these the Registrar Offices must be checked by the LPA officials .On 05 dec 2009 the Supreme Court of India bench ordered that �No mercy for builders for unauthorized Construction�. Iron punishment to be given to such activities .

Today the Approved Layout Plan are deviated and capturing another persons sites and illegal construction are started , the officers who gives notice to stop the Work even the Contractors continue the work is highly criminal attitude in the society for that the new rulr has come that the court will not entertained the show cause notice given to Stop work to continue for an appeal .

The illegal Construction work done through Contractors must be immediately stopped by Collector or the LPA officer so that such crime should not be go in future , and the govt has to instruct the officers to check round the clock were such illegal activities are going on for that the district collector has to deploy the officers to wash out the illegal construction of building and capturing others site and making construction for their benefit and at last the procedure goes to court and in India the Justice delay is justice denied follows and after winning the case the contractor already sold the house to another person and escape from that place .

So these system has to be stooped immediately by officials with strong action . Then only the dignity of the country will be in safe hand other wise it will be very complicate to solve the problem , and their will be a chance of provoking crime too. So it�s a message to central govt to insist strong action to such Contractors who are Violating the rules and regulation of Town Planning Acts .

Terror of RTI

Dr. M. Faiyazuddin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:30:14 GMT

RTI has empowered common to question those officers who were earlier inaccessible to common man. There is no faer of earning the wrath of an officer. I asked a rude Principal of a govt. school about the facility provided to the students of the school. The school was running from 8.00 am to 3.00pm. The Principal himself was found counting the number of fans in each class rooms. The timing was changed from 8.00am to 1.45pm as soon as my application reached. Despite less punishment by the CIC terror in the minds of PIOs compel to put the things right.

Favourite Section of RTI Portal

Dr. M. Faiyazuddin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:40:59 GMT

Dear friends,

One of my very learned friends suggested me to express my views on each and every section of this portal. I generally do it but the area which requires more attention is sometimes under my preference. I thought again and again to this suggestion. Do you consider it a worthy idea? It is like tasting all the menu instead of eating the favourite one.

Thanks for your response.

Arrest warrant against official for delaying to send Information

journalist — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:23:04 GMT

Officers must give information and work done for the innocent people who file their complaints or for fast work done in offices not to delay and put the file on rust .
RTI 2005 Act is for fast work done and for transparent between the govt servent Vs Public Servent . ignoring this gets delay on govt work process so the PIO and RTI office bears must do the file work done as soon as possible other wise the innocent people belive will be just a dream and at last too whom we belive question will arive .
This news was published in TOI today .

"In an unusual move to ensure compliance by a public official under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the Arunachal Pradesh state information commission issued an arrest warrant. Needless to say not only was the public information officer present at the next date of hearing but also gave the requisite information after some delay.

Applicant Tago Pai Camdir had asked for information regarding details of appointments in the state art and culture department in June 2009. With no compliance by the department, the information commission asked the department's deputy director J Siram to furnish the information within three days and also explain why the Civil Procedure Code should not be invoked against him for causing "unreasonable delay''. Despite the July 13 order, the applicant did not get the requisite information and at the next hearing on July 31, the PIO, J Siram, was absent. Irked by the non-compliance, information commissioner Toko Anil issued an arrest warrant for Siram under CPC order XVI, rule 10(3) that allows for a warrant to be issued to summon a person to ensure his or her presence in court. In his order, Anil said that "....it appears that the PIO/APIO has given less importance to interim order passed by this commission...which tantamounts to non-compliance of the order.''

Not only was Siram forced to execute the bail bond but had to give a written explanation on the delay where he blamed non-cooperation by department officials. Ruling that the explanations given by Siram and his colleagues were not satisfactory, the commissioner issued a showcause notice on why a penalty of Rs 250 per day for 30 days not be slapped on the PIO.

While the fine was finally waived off, the department seems to have learned a hard lesson and has promised to set up an RTI cell and ensure compliance under section 4 of the RTI Act that mandates proactive disclosure by all public institutions".

This News from TOI National News Paper .
Arrest warrant against official for delaying info - India - The Times of India

Right to Information Act makes a Transparent work done in Tamil Nadu and other States of India

journalist — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:51:52 GMT

Right to Information Act makes a Transparent work done in Tamil Nadu and other States of India.

After the freedom of India , many freedom fighters fought and died for the nation and sacrifice for the dignity of the nation, they fight united to free India from british people and after got the freedom the politics enters the same seat and the � Corruption� starts and till its going on in our country the work done in our nation is 10:100 rest 90% is on corruption side only no proper planning from the govt of India since the freedom , people of India copy bad things first from other countries and the good things like cleanness , work done , proper planning of growth , control on food products price , labour problem , all are these which totally effects the nation and at last the sufferer are the new genaration now since the RTI Act comes in effect since 2005 the offices got some fear and doing some good jobs to help the public servants RTI applications in every offices can be seen for urgent problem solved , its true that the files in office does not move from one place to another table due to corruption only its fact .

The offices bears just avoid the files and the sufferer are only the public servant , and these is going all over India , when the RTI ACT deployed in all states TN state restrict RTI Act in TN but by the orders of Supreme Court the Tamil nadu state deployed RTI Act on their offices and now more than 1,50,000 applications are reached to the State Information commission of which orders had been issued on 90,000 is on the way . RTI Act main aim is of transparency in administration if its realy success in office then it�s a new freedom from corruption in India for the independence ensured to the people .

The officers who are failed to respond RTI Act applications a show cause notices given to officers still failed to respond in that matter the State Information commission had levied a penalty of Rs 25,000 each on more than 80 officials.

If such strong action is deployed in offices then their will be a transparency between the officers and Public Servant , because many innocent people who are really sufferer from the office bears due to corruption only . Some people misused RTI application asking irrelevant questions that must be scrutiny by the higher officers and must be cancelled . India is one of the 72 countries that had progress fast in Right to Information Act , It Ensures 5 rights for a Citizen
1. Right to Seek Information
2. Right to inspect files
3. Right to seek Photostat Copies of Govt documents
4. Files
5. Bills and Receipts , Right to inspect government works and ask for taking samples of the materials used in construction works by the govt.

The Last two rights are Unique to India.

The govt servant are working to help public servant only and for these the Govt of India gives salary to the officers and staffs not to disturb public by delaying office work and put their file on by side of table to make a Tower of files on table , In India what is practiced is an apology for democracy.

Democratic right was exercised only once in five years.So it�s a new Freedom to the Nation RTI Act must be very transparent and helpful to the public Servant then only the India will progress in the world , People of India who really suffered for their work or still suffering .

RTI Act 2005 will help to solve their problems with a transparent way but for that their must be no politics involved in offices make restriction on the progress of the files its public to come forward and be united who suffered a lot for their innocent work done in offices and got many months or years RTI ACT will give them a transparent Justice a New Freedom of ERA is RTI ACT 2005 that is Right to Information to the Right People .

A Genaral Awareness to all citizen of India about RTI ACT 2005 should be given and for that RTI India.org online portal by the Administration of Dr. Kushal Pathak, Senior & Members are doing their best to resolve the problems of the people of India to guide and help to understand the RTI Act 2005 for their work done in offices .

" Jai Hind "

RTI Act and me: Anticipation, Enactment, and then, Nothing!

pooorabyoura — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:25:26 GMT

I believe I am reasonably well-informed. I take efforts to keep myself abreast of situations the world over, and make it a point to reinforce this information through using it wherever, whenever I can. I was following the campaign for RTI even before the campaign became a force, and was following discussions on what the proposed act should do and what it should not, what machinery should be created to implement it etc.

Somehow, when the Act was finally in place, I lost interest and did not keep tab on its progress or otherwise. As I was to realize later, it was a mistake.....