Top Law News Activists demonstrate against Punjab information commission December 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Right to Information (RTI) activists Monday demonstrated outside the Punjab State Information Commission here to protest delays in giving details to applicants.Carrying placards and banners against Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) R.I. Singh, the activists raised slogans against the commission. “The people who are running the State Information Commission are least bothered about the common man. […] Read more » .Chief Information Commission RTI
Top Law News Apex court reserves ruling on RTI plea on judges’ posting November 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved the verdict on its own petition challenging the Central Information Commission’s (CIC) order directing the chief justice of India to give details on the appointment of three apex court judges. While reserving the order, the apex court bench of Justice B Sudershan Reddy and Justice SS Nijjar said that […] Read more » apex court CIC judges plea posting RTI
Top Law News RTI, the common man’s tool to get things done October 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ram Vilas, 32, a small-time shopkeeper in a village in Bihar, now knows the power of the Right To Information (RTI) Act after he used it successfully to get the provident fund money of his ailing retired father, an ex-civic employee. A school drop out, Ram Vilas sought help from one of his former classmates, […] Read more » common done get man RTI things tool
Top Law News Will strive to make RTI more effective, accessible: New CIC October 11, 2010 / October 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The empowering Right To Information Act (RTI) completes five eventful years Oct 12 (Tuesday). Newly-appointed Chief Information Commissioner Anugraha Narayan Tiwari, who has a very short tenure to work in, is keen to make the act more powerful and more accessible. Tiwari, a 1969 batch IAS officer and former secretary, Department of Personnel and Training, […] Read more » accessible CIC effective RTI strive
Top Law News Appointments of senior officials not under RTI: Court July 31, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday said that information pertaining to appointment of top bureaucrats cannot be revealed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Justice S. Muralidhar passed this order while dismissing the plea of RTI activist and Magsaysay Award winner Arvind Kejriwal, seeking disclosure of the information on the ground that people had the […] Read more » Appointments officials RTI senior