Efforts of RTI activists materialise in providing Video-Conferencing facility to Uttar Pradesh info seekers

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Now-RTI-cases-to-be-settled-through-video-conferencing/articleshow/8283931.cms   Now, RTI cases to be settled through video conferencing TNN | May 13, 2011, 04.10am IST   LUCKNOW: The UP State Information Commission ( UPSIC) will dispose of its RTI cases through video-conferencing in days to come. The commission has written to National Informatics Centre (NIC) in this regard. The appeals and complaints filed from all over the district will be attended to through video conferencing. This will do away with the physical presence of the Public Information Officers (PIOs) and RTI seekers in the commission. For a time being, the video-conferencing centre set-up at Yojna Bhawan will be connected to video conferencing rooms in the districts on an experimental basis, UP chief information commissioner Ranjit Singh Pankaj said. If the experiment turns out to be successful, the video conferencing centre will be set up at the commission. "Most of the cases are from outside districts. Facility will offer respite to RTI seekers from far-off districts," he said. -- Urvashi Sharma RTI Helpmail( Web Based ) aishwaryaj2010@gmail.com Mobile Rti Helpline 8081898081 ( 8 A.M. to 10 P.M. )