PLEASE DO NOT AMEND RTI ACT

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There is a big crisis of confidence in constitutional authorities in India. Whenever a constitutional authority speaks, the confidence people have in them goes down. Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has sent a letter to Prime Minister which said that questions asked by chronic litigants about the judiciary could erode its independence. He has requested the Prime Minister to protect the judiciary from increasingly intrusive queries under RTI Act. This letter as per newspaper reports appears to have triggered an exercise to look for options to effect changes in the RTI Act, and the government has started looking into possible changes in the RTI Act,.

Why administration of justice should not be transparent? Rather it should be the most transparent activity in the country. Today people have no faith in the judiciary. Such statements by the head of the judicial system further undermines this faith.

It is a sad state of affairs that the people who should be our role models are busy in installing themselves on high pedestals untouched from the laws of the land and to be seen as higher human beings. Why anybody should be out of the scope of RTI Act? Today CJI is arguing in favour of judiciary to be kept out of RTI and PM is agreeing with his arguments. Tomorrow PM's babus will argue and PM will agree. Then there will be others and one day RTI Act will remain a piece of paper on which some words are written.

I therefore request you to follow the law of the land like a common citizen like me does. All are equal in law it is said. Let this be demonstrated by all especially the constitutional authorities.

PLEASE DO NOT AMEND RTI ACT.

53 Signatures

  • S C Gupta
    • Comments
    • I support the petition
  • Anjana Gupta
    • Comments
    • Yes, Govt should implement the RTI Act rather than amending it.
  • Golock Chandra Sahoo
    • Comments
    • RTI Act should be more citizen centric covering all under the ambit of the Act. Today's Judiciaries are no superior to the responsible citizen of India.
  • Mr Leslie Almeida
    • Comments
    • protect RTI not dilute it
    • Address
    • Bandra mumbai 400050
  • nisar
    • Address
    • jaunpur
  • DR JN SHARMA
    • Comments
    • do not amend RTI ACT
    • Address
    • 2, ashoklane civil court, Lucknow
  • G R Vora
    • Comments
    • I fully support this Petition.
    • Address
    • Sion E
  • Victor Cooper
  • Srinivasa Raju
    • Comments
    • As the Justice Department is working for the people with the cases filed by people, it s a Public Authority. Hence, all public authorities should be covered by RTI Act
  • Rajesh Darak
    • Comments
    • I fully support this petition.
    • Address
    • Mumbai
  • Rajat
    • Comments
    • Please implement RTI Act effectively rather than amending it.
  • Kamlesh
  • A.Ganapathy
    • Comments
    • There should be real transparency in any government organisation
    • Address
    • 11/59 Dr Radhakrishnan nagar ,Chennai 600019.
  • Dinesh Dave
  • amresh
    • Comments
    • RTI act is tremendous good legislation. It should not be amended
    • Address
    • Sagarpur Delhi
  • bipin
    • Comments
    • RTI act is outstanding act. plz. don't amend it.
    • Address
    • delhi
  • Kapil chawla
  • SINDHU DAFTARY
    • Comments
    • I support the petition. RTI act must not be altered
    • Address
    • Mumbai
  • BIMAL KUMAR KHEMANI
    • Comments
    • Their should be one law equally for all
    • Address
    • 2/40 D, Janakpuri, Marris Road, ALIGARH.
  • Ajay Marathe
    • Comments
    • I support the petition.
  • kamal
  • kamal
  • Dr Nilesh Baxi
    • Comments
    • Transparency, Accountability should be the pillars of RTI Act, Do not dilute it.
    • Address
    • Mumbai 400034.
  • S Manoj
  • Amit B. Jethava
    • Comments
    • please don't amend the RTI Act
    • Address
    • Khambha, Di. Amreli, Pin Code: 365650, Gujarat
  • Sachin Agarwal
  • Vaishali
    • Comments
    • Please make RTI Act more powerful. Do not dilute it.
  • MVK ANIL KUMAR
    • Address
    • Anugraha, No.12, II Main road, Ashwini Layout,
  • P.ESAKKIMUTHU
  • DR V Thanumoorthy
  • RAKESH KUMAR GUPTA
  • dr. jagruti desai
  • Roshan Bhakta
    • Comments
    • I support the petition. Amending it will make a mockery of transparency of the Judiciary and all Government agencies
  • akhil sarin
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    • В
    • Address
    • В
  • AJAY HOODA
    • Comments
    • Keep up the good work
    • Address
    • Bangalore 560100
  • Dr. Vishnu Rajgadia
    • Comments
    • We are sutisfied with the present RTI act as it is a powerful tool of governance, transperency and accountability. Therefore, please dont try to amend the act but insure its proper implimentation and make the rules and procedure easy to get information. If the government will take any step to curse the RTI act, the people of India will never accept it.
    • Address
    • Jharkhand RTI Forum, Ranchi
  • sherley joseph singh
    • Comments
    • rti is perfect the way it is
  • Satish Kumar
  • Buzz
  • Debashis Chowdhury
    • Comments
    • Please empower citizen to access all information as envisaged in RTI Act.2005. Any ammendment at this stage will invite more suspicion about the intention of the UPA government which is committed to the voters for corruption free governance with full of transparency.
  • rajesh j bhatt
  • Mukund Parikh
    • Comments
    • Complete endorsement to Petition
  • rajan singla
    • Comments
    • fully agreed with this petiton
    • Address
    • Tilak Bhawan , G.T. Road Bathinda (Punjab)
  • S.K.Wadhwa
  • Milind
  • Pradip Shah
    • Comments
    • Please do not amend RTI ACT
    • Address
    • В
  • JOGLEKAR SHRIKANT
    • Comments
    • pl make it more powerful and easily executable within limited time
    • Address
    • 307 A BEST BLDG, OPP. RLY. STN. ANDHERI (WEST)
  • mohd khalid
  • lalit patel
  • Mr.Ashok Dalvi