Bring back the pristine glory of the Right to Information Act, 2005
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RTI /2010-11/PM-01 Dated: 6th May, 2009
To,
The Honble Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh ji,
Government of India,
South Block,
New Delhi-110011
Respected Sir,
Please permit me to express the distress and agony being felt by many of us who are just the ordinary citizens, who were bequeathed the democracy-in-action at their door steps through the enactment of Right to Information Act, 2005, by recalling an interesting anecdote which I came across during my school going age. The story describes a King, who once thought of having a grand banquet with the citizenry and accordingly the citizenry were invited to the Bhoj. However, suddenly while the banquet was in full swing, it transpired to the King that this Bhoj besides bringing him accolades is also uncovering a number of unsavory deeds of his administration, as the citizenry is having the opportunity to have a free mingling with his confidants during informal chats that were going on during the Bhoj and hence he suddenly changed his mind and when the banquet was in full swing half way, he ordered that all those citizens who were there as his honored guests should leave from the scene, without even finish their food.
Sir, the same way, we are act to wonder that is not the present twists that are being experienced with the Right to Information Act, 2005; some times in the name of the amendments and some times in the name of circular, in the guise of clarifications etc.; not going the same way as that of the King ordering the citizenry to leave the banquet Half way without completing the meals?
When the Right to Information Act, 2005, was enacted, the Government under your leadership has not only accepted the participatory role of the citizenry to check the corruption in the government, but is also regularly propagating as an important democratic instrument given in the hands of the citizenry, through its own electronic media. However, unfortunately, now when it has started bringing to light the corrupt practices, rampant in various departments/ public authorities, which were hitherto being kept under wraps, a strong pressure of lobbying has started building to bring-in restriction on such fundamental rights of citizenry to know, and in this way the first and foremost affected department that is the Directorates of Income Tax (Investigation) which is virtually responsible for running a parallel economy controlled by the black money circulation, has been placed out of the preview of the RTI Act, meaning thereby a free play for the black money lords, being the Big Tax Evaders.
Similarly the recent circular issued on 27/04/2010 by DoPT, prohibiting the sharing of the Information received from other Public Authority in the guise of third party information, is akin to administering the injection of anesthesia to send the very Right to Information Act, 2005 itself into coma, and not only that the government is further bent upon to give it a final burial by bringing in the proposed amendment in the law to deny the information under the garb and pretext of the alleged vexatious and frivolous applications. This way the Government is planned to kill the very essence and efficacy of the Right to Information Act, 2005.
I hope you will please excuse me for requesting you not to get entrapped with the black money lobbies and would correct all the aforesaid wrongs that has been wittingly or unwittingly done and will not only bring back the pristine glory of the Right to Information Act, 2005, in its original forms, but also add some more teeth to it to make it more effective.
Please see my photo with you at http://milapchoraria.tripod.com/msp
With Best Regards,
Yours faithfully,
(Milap Choraria)
Social and RTI activist
Copies through Emails to all the Members of Parliament having Email Ids.
B-5/52, Sector-7, Rohini, New Delhi-110085
Website: http://milapchoraria.tripod.com/msp / https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/rti-times
E-Mail: milap_choraria@yahoo.com
RTI /2010-11/PM-01 Dated: 6th May, 2009
To,
The Honble Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh ji,
Government of India,
South Block,
New Delhi-110011
Respected Sir,
Please permit me to express the distress and agony being felt by many of us who are just the ordinary citizens, who were bequeathed the democracy-in-action at their door steps through the enactment of Right to Information Act, 2005, by recalling an interesting anecdote which I came across during my school going age. The story describes a King, who once thought of having a grand banquet with the citizenry and accordingly the citizenry were invited to the Bhoj. However, suddenly while the banquet was in full swing, it transpired to the King that this Bhoj besides bringing him accolades is also uncovering a number of unsavory deeds of his administration, as the citizenry is having the opportunity to have a free mingling with his confidants during informal chats that were going on during the Bhoj and hence he suddenly changed his mind and when the banquet was in full swing half way, he ordered that all those citizens who were there as his honored guests should leave from the scene, without even finish their food.
Sir, the same way, we are act to wonder that is not the present twists that are being experienced with the Right to Information Act, 2005; some times in the name of the amendments and some times in the name of circular, in the guise of clarifications etc.; not going the same way as that of the King ordering the citizenry to leave the banquet Half way without completing the meals?
When the Right to Information Act, 2005, was enacted, the Government under your leadership has not only accepted the participatory role of the citizenry to check the corruption in the government, but is also regularly propagating as an important democratic instrument given in the hands of the citizenry, through its own electronic media. However, unfortunately, now when it has started bringing to light the corrupt practices, rampant in various departments/ public authorities, which were hitherto being kept under wraps, a strong pressure of lobbying has started building to bring-in restriction on such fundamental rights of citizenry to know, and in this way the first and foremost affected department that is the Directorates of Income Tax (Investigation) which is virtually responsible for running a parallel economy controlled by the black money circulation, has been placed out of the preview of the RTI Act, meaning thereby a free play for the black money lords, being the Big Tax Evaders.
Similarly the recent circular issued on 27/04/2010 by DoPT, prohibiting the sharing of the Information received from other Public Authority in the guise of third party information, is akin to administering the injection of anesthesia to send the very Right to Information Act, 2005 itself into coma, and not only that the government is further bent upon to give it a final burial by bringing in the proposed amendment in the law to deny the information under the garb and pretext of the alleged vexatious and frivolous applications. This way the Government is planned to kill the very essence and efficacy of the Right to Information Act, 2005.
I hope you will please excuse me for requesting you not to get entrapped with the black money lobbies and would correct all the aforesaid wrongs that has been wittingly or unwittingly done and will not only bring back the pristine glory of the Right to Information Act, 2005, in its original forms, but also add some more teeth to it to make it more effective.
Please see my photo with you at http://milapchoraria.tripod.com/msp
With Best Regards,
Yours faithfully,
(Milap Choraria)
Social and RTI activist
Copies through Emails to all the Members of Parliament having Email Ids.
1100 Signatures
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Milap Choraria
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- We should not allow to govt. to adopt anti-people policy to kill the very essence and efficacy of the Right to Information Act, 2005
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Sidharth
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Srimanthan Arya
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- I strongly support Chorariaji's move. Jai Bharat
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shehla masood
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- WE NEED MORE TEETH
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Papindder Singh
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- Support this move, rather expect more transparent clauses in RTI Act, after all any info. hold by Govt. is of the citizen for the Citizen, they simply are custodian, except certain cluase exempted already.
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K G Misra
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- without right to information, write to vote is blind. Blind citizen choose Blind and Lame but Cruel and Corrupt Govt.
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Rejimon C K
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- RTI need more publicity and encourage usage. Please dont let it DIE like other tools.
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Sandeep Kumar
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Capt Deep Singh
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Sidharth Misra
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- No tinkering with RTI Act. Implement it properly.
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Suraj Prasad
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- Don't curtail RTI undemocracticaly
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Swami Satchidananda Puri
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Virag
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- RTI Act is a very powerful tool for the citizens to ensure good governance. Please bring back its pristine glory
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G. C. Mathur
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- PM will regret if any changes are brought to make RTI less effective, rather than making it more effective and bringing the bureaucracy to comply with it.
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Manish Drona
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- Bring back Right to Information Act, 2005, I can say that It's not should be back , evan It's MUST
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Sucheta Maheshwari
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- R T I - Now!
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Wasif Ali
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- Fully support the initiaive. RTI is the life blood of common man. It should not be diluted at all.
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Shishir Goenka
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Kamal
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- RTI drama by this congress goverment must stop. The soul of RTI act shall not be killed.
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Ramaswami Kumar
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- People are the masters!
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CA DEV KUMAR KOTHARI
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- When a tax officer is not providing to the tax payer copy of order sheet s in his own case, and is being harrassed what can we expect if we want copy for others.
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Jagadeesan K
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Amit Kumar
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Nayeem Khan
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Reet Sngh
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Suraj Kumar
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- I support this petition
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BIMAL KUMAR KHEMANI
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- A BIG NO FOR ANY AMMENDEMENTS
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giri prasad
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- i support the petition.
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BG Srinivas
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Suraj
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- RTI has benifitted the current framework of society in the fight against corruption and deception. It has provided enormous amount of benefits as compared to the drawbacks. Do not let this ground-breaking act to dilute in any way. This is my solemn request.
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kantipuli
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Jaspreet Singh
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B.K. Agrawal
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Prof I S Suri
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- It will be unfair
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Niranjan Parikh
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- Who rules the counntry?? Beaurocrates and to hide their wrongs they do this.
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VED KUMAR
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- Pray, do not dilute provisions of the Act. the stock of the Govt. will fall in the eyes of all indian Citizens and in the World Community as well.
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Kasi Viswanadham
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- Thanks for this act
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Kailash Khairnar
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mathi rajan
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Muralidhar Bhat
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Rakesh Goyal
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- No change in RTI ACT now.
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Barbara Thyab Ali
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- The National R T I Forum is the best tool to help set right the fundamental rules and regulations of our Nation.It is the most important form of implementing the right to information on all Indian citizens, from the root level to the house of Parliament.Jai Hind.
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Jayesh Kadam
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Mithun Kumar
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- RTI is the only Act in India that's useful for the Citizens.
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Praveen Mahajan
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- Right now this is the only tool available againts measuring Curruption, I am looking for strong law againts Curruption and this is not possible in present govt.
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r.shankar
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Pravin Nair
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- Please make it in such a way that word 'corruption' gets away from India
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missionjustice
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- We support the petition
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NNFI, Trustee, Promod Chawla
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- In addition to RTI as is, Socially Responsible Auditing along with Civil Society participants paid for their Services is recommended. To tackle huge ongoing Corrupt practices disliked, causing harm to Mother India.
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Mens rights
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- Corrupt Babus are afraid of transparency. Throw them out.
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