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| NPP protests over subversion of RTI by rulers, bureaucrats | | | Jammu, Sept 1: Agitated over the fast collapsing Right to Information in the state, a strong contingent of Panthers Party activists spearheaded by Harsh Dev Singh chairman JKNPP and Yash Paul Kundal State President Young Panthers staged a massive protest demonstration against the RTI Act being sabotaged in the State at Exhibition Ground in Jammu today.
Addressing media persons, Harsh Dev Singh said that BJP-PDP responsible for making the progressive RTI Act in the state almost defunct. He divulged that out of the three members of state Information Commission (SIC) two including CIC had retired months back and the lone Information Commissioner was due to retire this month or so but the government had remained apathetic to initiate any process for reconstitution of the said SIC. He revealed that it had become a routine affair where the higher authorities and Administrative department had been forwarding the RTI applications to hundreds of their subordinates merely to create confusion and abdicate their responsibility to provide the information. He said that vague and absurd replies were being given in several others cases only to evade, avoid and conceal the information. Moreover, he said, the senior officers often sheltered their subordinates despite proven instances of violation of the Act.
Inculpating the present government for sabotaging the Act, Harsh Dev Singh said that the Ministers and MLAs particularly those of BJP believed notion that while transparency was good for others, they should be left free and unquestioned.
He said that the BJP's resistance to RTI Act came to fore when one of the BJP MLAs moved a bill in the recently concluded Assembly session for amendment of J&K RTI Act and alleged misuse of the Act by the so called "unscrupulous elements".
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion included Rajesh Padgotra, Gagan Partap, Nirmal Kishore, Satbir, Shanker Singh Sanju, Arun Khajuria and Jeevan Sharma. |
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