Sunday, June 30, 2013

Recover fine from official's salary: RTI review panel

LUCKNOW: Fine imposed on a government official for not providing information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act should be recovered from his salary. To ensure action, fine should be recovered at the time of preparing the salary statement. The recovery of RTI fine has been as less as 1% in the state.

The committee has among its members principal secretary/secretary of law department, administrative reforms departmenrt, personnel department, secretariat administration and secretary of UPSIC. The said committee has met only thrice so far - on December 1, 2008; May 7, 2009; and September 22, 2010.

Please find complete details and original RTI papers at given link :

http://upcpri.blogspot.in/2013/06/recover-fine-from-officials-salary-rti.html

regards

urvashi

Monday, June 3, 2013

RTI Power:After 6-month gap, Samajwadi Party government restarts Janata Darshan

LUCKNOW: One week after an RTI query showed the Samajwadi Party government had not hosted even oneJanata Darshan programme in six months, the UP government announced on Monday that the programme will be held on June 4, albeit in the absence of chief minister Akhilesh Yadav. 

A government release on Monday evening said, "The chief minister will remain in Delhi for an additional day owing to a meeting. In his place, however, the Janata Darshan programme will be hosted by ministers and senior officials of the state government." 

One week ago, an RTI query, filed by Lucknow-based activist Urvashi Sharma had found that only seven Janata Darshan programmes were held at 5 Kalidas Marg since the SP government was sworn to power in March 2012. The mass contact programme was originally started by SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav when he was chief minister of the state.

read full story at http://upcpri.blogspot.in/2013/06/rti-powerafter-6-month-gap-samajwadi.html