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Lucknow/05
September 2016/ Transparency watchdog
of India’s most populous state has come under strong ire of RTI activists as it
has rejected activist’s long pending demand for resuming audio-video recording
in all 11 hearing rooms of State Information Commission of Uttar Pradesh.
For last
2 years, various social organizations & RTI activists have been continuously
fighting for this transparency cause under the leadership of Lucknow based
firebrand social activist Urvashi Sharma.
Urvashi
Sharma told that they first wrote to various constitutional authorities of
Governments of India and Uttar Pradesh and afterwards demands were raised
through a chain of agitations carried out for their demand of resuming
audio-video recording in all 11 hearing rooms of State Information Commission
of Uttar Pradesh.
In this regard apart
from peaceful sit-ins at Hazratganj Lucknow, an effigy of all information
commissioners including the chief information commissioner Jawed Usmani was
burnt outside ‘RTI Bhavan’ which is the new building of State Information
Commission of Uttar Pradesh and a supplicatory boycott movement was started at State
Information Commission of Uttar Pradesh under her leadership, told Urvashi.
As per Urvashi, She alongwith another activist Tanveer Ahmad
Siddiqui had planned a protest against Vice president Hamid Ansari on the day
of inauguration of ‘RTI Bhavan’ but she & Tanveer were picked by Lucknow
police in the night before the day of inauguration and were freed only after Vice
President’s flight left Lucknow for New Delhi.
“Since nobody was paying any heed to
our legitimate demand so we proceeded Lucknow bench of Allahabad high Court
with our demand. During hearing ,High Court in principle agreed that for
ensuring transparency at State Information
Commission of Uttar Pradesh as per the spirit of the act, audio-video recording facilities in
all 11 hearing rooms of State Information Commission should be installed and
directed us to put up our demand before Chief Information Commissioner jawed
Usmani in writing along with HC order” told Urvashi.
As per
Urvashi Sharma Ex- Chief Information Commissioner of State
Information Commission of Uttar Pradesh had, on her demands, started audio-video recording in all 11
hearing rooms of State Information Commission of Uttar Pradesh which was made
dysfunctional by Jawed Usmani.
I served
order of High court through my representations on which Raghvendra Vikram
Singh, Secretary of UP Information Commission has informed me that since there were
no provisions for audio-video recording in High Court, Human Rights Commission,
UP State Services Tribunal, Women Commission, Consumer Courts, district Courts
and Central information Commission so UPSIC has found no need and justification
for the same at UP Information Commission, told Urvashi.
Urvashi
blamed Info-Commissioners of harassing info-seekers during hearings and said
that she shall soon file a contempt petition in High Court in this regard.
Terming
SCIC Jawed Usmani an official of anti-transparency mindset, Urvashi said that
Jawed Usmani is proving to be the biggest impediment for CM Akhilesh Yadav’s
dream of establishing a transparent regime in UP.
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Pradesh State Information Commission to
Lucknow Activist Urvashi Sharma, Please click this web-blink http://newsyaishwaryaj.blogspot.in/2016/09/no-audio-video-recording-in-up.html
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