Rti Activists News Today

Bhubaneswar: The BJP on Saturday moved the poll authorities seeking withdrawal of “unnecessary security benefits” being given to BJD leader V K Pandia.

The RTI law has been kept alive over the years largely through the efforts of a few dedicated NGOs and die-hard RTI activists.

Government employees in Dharwad allege harassment by RTI activists. They demand protection from the government. The article highlights the case of a PDO who attempted suicide due to mental torture by fake RTI activists. Find out more about the harassment faced by government officials and PDOs in Dharwad.

The petitioners allege that the state information commissioners sit for only limited hours, refuse to sit in open court and insist on hard copies of documents despite the panel having become paperless.

If passed by Parliament, the Digital Data Protection Bill will deal a severe blow to transparency in government functioning.

Several names have come to the surface in the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) in the Rs 105 crore scam in Assam,

A case with WhatsApp is ongoing in the Supreme Court over the same issue.

The CIC warned that calls made to the personal staff of the state information commissioners in pursuance of appeals or complaints would be tantamount to harassing, badgering and pressurising the Commission.

Experts say extending definition of ‘person’, as mentioned in draft, to companies and even State will make way to deny information to citizens on grounds that it is personal

Serving and former information commissioners termed the state information commission's decisions “wholly unconstitutional”, insisted that they could trigger a "dangerous" trend and said that some SC rulings were to blame for this constitutional overreach.