http://www.rtiindia.org/forum/ Read the discussions and happenings around RTI en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:40:58 GMT vBulletin 1440 http://www.rtiindia.org/forum/images/styles/Creative/misc/rss.png http://www.rtiindia.org/forum/ http://www.rtiindia.org/forum/113324-goa-rti-activists-stage-protest-june-18-a.html Sun, 16 Jun 2013 02:26:38 GMT RTI activists to stage protest on June 18

Reported by thehindu.com on June 16, 2013
RTI activists to stage protest on June 18 | The Hindu

Forum members upset over delay in appointing commissioners

Right to Information (RTI) activists under the banner of the Goa RTI Forum will stage a protest at Azad Maidan on June 18, observed as Goa Revolution Day, against the State government’s failure to appoint officials to the State Information Commission (SIC).

At a meeting on Saturday, forum secretary Srikant Barve pointed out that after Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s announcement on April 23 regarding the appointment of the Chief Information Commissioner and the State Information Commissioner, forum member Rajan Ghate had withdrawn his plan to go on an indefinite hunger strike. The non-appointment of commissioners had deprived RTI activists of an appellate authority and a large number of appeals were gathering dust at the State Commission, he said.

Mr. Barve said that while the appointment process had been initiated and applications had been received for both posts, there had been no action thereafter.

RTI activist Aires Rodrigues said that certain government circulars issued for monitoring RTI information delivery were intended for keeping tabs on RTI activists. For instance, a May 29 circular from the Director of Information Swapnil Naik addressed to Public Information Officers asked for details regarding all the RTI applications submitted to government departments, along with the names and addresses of applicants.

The activists demanded that such circulars be withdrawn immediately. They alleged that instead of appointing the SIC to aid the implementation of the RTI Act, the Chief Minister was pressurising officials to divulge information.

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