Panchkula Afternoon 4.30pm.,Thursday11th Oct. 2007 While the long list of great achievements of ordinary Indians around Mumbai as listed by Sri Sailesh Gandhi ,here ,shall always be a matter of satisfaction to any body interested in seeing humble common Indian to be rescued from being subjected to all kinds of indignities and denials of his or her civil and personal freedoms by usurpers of our state.However, there are large areas in which The mandarins of Security Systems , higher echelons of secretariat , and of course My-Lordships of Judiciary are trying to make access to information as remote and delayed as long as they can ..Usually they can invoke reasons of State's Security , Official Secrecy Acts and Contempt laws controlling Juridical processes to be subjected to public exposure and to cover their own misdeeds in the name of State's vital security!So Sailesh Sahib just ask the CS at Bahadurgarh about some case relating to treatment at a public dispensary and you shall know that it would be available for a small cost of Rs. 100,000/- and after several months running around. Non Challant Bureaucrats have ways entirely unfathomable to most good-intentioned pieces of Legislation like RTC.So pl. do not get carried away by a few cases of success of your acquaintances with RTC. D. Goel
RE:Sailesh is Highly bemused by RTI
by shashank chauhan on Oct 11, 2007 05:21 PM Permalink
Dear Mr Goel
First of all its RTI and not RTC. As far as covering one's misdeeds in the name of state's vital security is concerned, RTI process is much robust and stronger than that. An Information Commissioner sits on top of any concerned authority from which u have asked for information, in case that authority doesn't provide u with the info and gives u lame excuses or say u r not satisfied with the reply, u can fill another RTI application. There are a total of 3 RTI applications at most that u need to fill and the applications are reviewed at successively higher levels. RTI success rates have been pretty significant, its just that neither ppl know abt it nor they want to exercise it. As it has become a habit, give a few bucks more is always easy than writing an application and fighting for ur case.
