Issue of guidelines regarding Implementation of suo motu disclosure under Section 4 of RTI Act, 2005 –OFFICE MEMORANDUM No.1/6/2011-IR :Department of Personnel & Training Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Government of India North Block, New Delhi Dated the 15th April, 2013 get complete text at given link http://upcpri.blogspot.in/2013/04/implementation-of-suo-motu-disclosure.html

MISC. BENCH No. - 2709 of 2013 Order Date :- 15.4.2013

Chief Justice's Court Case :- MISC. BENCH No. - 2709 of 2013 Petitioner :- Suo-Motu In The Matter Of U.P. State Information Commission Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Secretary (Appointment) [P.I.L.] Petitioner Counsel :- Suo Motu Respondent Counsel :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Shiva Kirti Singh,Chief Justice Hon'ble Devendra Kumar Arora,J. Heard learned counsel for the State in this public interest litigation. This public interest litigation is a result of suo-motu cognizance taken by this Court of certain facts reported in a Newspaper dated 22nd March, 2013 disclosing as many as eight vacancies out of ten posts of Information Commissioner in the State of Uttar Pradesh. A counter affidavit has been brought on record on behalf of the State of U.P. to explain as to why such a situation has arisen. According to the counter affidavit certain provisions of the Right to Information Act, 2005, a Central Act (hereinafter referred to as 'Act') were under challenge before the Apex Court in the case of Namit Sharma vs. Union of India and the Apex Court by its judgement dated 13th September, 2012, reported in (2013) 1 SCC 745, issued a number of directions in order to make the Act constitutionally valid as well as workable. read full order at given weblink http://upcpri.blogspot.in/2013/04/misc-bench-no-2709-of-2013-order-date.html

Fill all vacant posts of ICs within three months: HC TNN | Apr 17, 2013, 05.08 AM IST

Fill all vacant posts of ICs within three months: HC TNN | Apr 17, 2013, 05.08 AM IST LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to fill vacant posts of information commissioners in the State Information Commission within three months and furnish the report before it. The court will hear the matter after three months. read full story at http://upcpri.blogspot.in/2013/04/fill-all-vacant-posts-of-ics-within.html

The objectionable part of namit sharma order stayed

RP(C) 2309/2012 etc. 1 ITEM NO.7+8+12 COURT NO.8 SECTION X S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS REVIEW PETITION (C) NO(s). 2309 OF 2012 IN W.P(C) 210/2012 UNION OF INDIA Petitioner(s) VERSUS NAMIT SHARMA Respondent(s) (With appln(s) for directions, permission to file synopsis and list of dates and office report) AND R.P.(C) NO. 2675/2012 IN W.P.(C) NO. 210/2012 SLP(C) NO. 27347/2012 (With applns. for c/delay in filing counter affidavit, modification, direction, permission to appear and argue in person, recalling the Court's order with prayer for interim relief and office report) Date: 16/04/2013 These Petitions were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.K. PATNAIK HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ARJAN KUMAR SIKRI For the parties : Mr. Amarjit Singh Chandhiok, ASG Mr. Ritesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Shweta Gupta, Adv. Ms. Honey Kumari, Adv. Ms. Mallika Ahluwalia, Adv. Mr. Anoopam Prasad, Adv. Mr. T.A. Khan, Adv. Mr. Nizam Pasha, Adv. Mr. B.V. Balaram Das, Adv. Mr. M.S. Ganesh, Sr. Adv. Mr. R. Ayyam Perumal, Adv. Mr. K. Seshachary, Adv. Dr. Manish Singhvi, AAG Mr. Amit Lubhaya, Adv. Ms. Pragati Neekhra, Adv. Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Adv. RP(C) 2309/2012 etc. 2 Mr. Pranav Sachdeva, Adv. Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv. Ms. Shweta Singh, Adv. Mr. Irshad Ahmad, AAG Ms. Pragati Neekhra, Adv. Mr. Satya Narain Shukla, Respondent-in-person UPON hearing counsel the Court made the following O R D E R I.A.NO. 6 in R.P.(C) No. 2309 of 2012 This is an application for stay of the operation of the judgment dated 13th September, 2012 passed in Writ Petition (C) No. 210 of 2012 titled Namit Sharma Vs. Union of India reported as 2013 (1) SCC 745 during the pendency of the Review Petition (C) No. 2309 of 2012 titled Union of India Vs. Namit Sharma. We have heard learned counsel for the parties and we are not inclined to stay the operation of the entire judgment in Namit Sharma Vs. Union of India but we direct that the following directions in sub-paras 108.8 and 108.9 quoted here-in-below shall remain stayed during the pendency of the Review Petition (C) No. 2309 of 2012. 108.8 The Information Commissions at the respective levels shall henceforth work in Benches of two members each. One of them being a 'judicial member', while the other an 'expert member'. The judicial member should be a person RP(C) 2309/2012 etc. 3 possessing a degree in law, having a judicially trained mind and experience in performing judicial functions. A law officer or a lawyer may also be eligible provided he is a person who has practiced law at least for a period of twenty years as on the date of the advertisement. Such lawyer should also have experience in social work. We are of the considered view that the competent authority should prefer a person who is or has been a Judge of the High Court for appointment as Information Commissioners. Chief Information Commissioner at the Centre or State level shall only be a person who is or has been a Chief Justice of the High Court or a Judge of the Supreme Court of India. 108.9 The appointment of the judicial members to any of these posts shall be made 'in consultation' with the Chief Justice of India and Chief Justices of the High Courts of the respective States, as the case may be". We further direct that wherever Chief Information Commissioner is of the opinion that intricate questions of law will have to be decided in a matter coming before the Information Commissioners, he will ensure that the matter is heard by a Bench of which at least one member has knowledge and experience in the field of Law. We make it clear that subject to orders that may be finally passed after hearing the Review Petitions, the competent authority will continue to fill up the vacant posts of Information Commissioners in accordance with the Act and in accordance with the judgment in RP(C) 2309/2012 etc. 4 W.P.(C) No. 210 of 2012 except sub-paras 108.8 and 108.9 which we have stayed. This is to ensure that functioning of the Information Commissioners in accordance with the Act and the Judgment is not affected during the pendency of the Review Petitions. We further make it clear that the Chief Commissioners already functioning will continue to function until the disposal of the Review Petitions. I.A.No. 6 is ordered accordingly. R.P.(C) Nos. 2309, 2675 AND SLP(C) NO. 27347 OF 2012 Heard in part. List together tomorrow as Part-Heard. (G. SUDHAKARA RAO) COURT MASTER (SHARDA KAPOOR) COURT MASTER

Govt disinterested in RTI meetings? : TOI:LUCKNOW:UTTAR PRADESH : INDIA

http://upcpri.blogspot.in/2013/04/govt-disinterested-in-rti-meetings.html UCKNOW: The Right to Information (RTI) Act has always been in bad shape in UP. The changing regimes have not done much to ameliorate the state of RTI affairs in the state. The biggest proof on that is defunct state of the state-level committee set up to review the implementation of RTI Act in the state. The committee which was constituted on July 7, 2008, and was intended to review the implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act has met on only three occasions till now whereas it was supposed to meet monthly/quarterly to take stock of RTI implementation........................................................................................................... read full story and watch relevant papers at weblink http://upcpri.blogspot.in/2013/04/govt-disinterested-in-rti-meetings.html

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Activist seeks info on terror camps, MHA provides Shinde's clarification

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Activist-seeks-info-on-terror-camps-MHA-provides-Shindes-clarification/articleshow/19400886.cms Activist seeks info on terror camps, MHA provides Shinde's clarification Neha Shukla, TNN | Apr 5, 2013, 06.15 PM IST LUCKNOW: In what could be described as a double whammy for the Congress, after Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde made a U-turn on his comments on Hindu terrorism, the ministry of home affairs did not provide information about terror camps being operated by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party, when asked under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The ministry, instead, provided the copy of Shinde's clarification and said the "home minister has issued a clarification on February 20, clarifying the position." The political furore over Shinde's comment on BJP and RSS conducting terror camps, though died down after the minister tendered an apology, caused embarrassment to the government. In an RTI response, the ministry denied information. The questions could be irrelevant since the minister has already apologised for his comment. Shinde had said, during Congress' Jaipur conclave, in January, "We have got an investigation report that be it the RSS or BJP, their training camps are promoting Hindu terrorism." He later clarified that he meant saffron and not Hindu terrorism. The comment was strong enough to leave BJP livid, which demanded that the minister either apologise or be sacked. Shinde later backpedalled and retracted his statement by issuing a clarification and also regretting his statement. In January, activist Urvashi Sharma had sought certified copies of all records available with the government based on which the home minister had accused RSS and BJP of conducting terror training camps and promoting "Hindu terrorism", from the PMO. The response which came more than two months after the application was made, said the government has no records available on any of the information sought. The query had also sought certified copies of information on location within India and/or abroad of RSS and BJP terror training camps; certified copies of records available with the government on action taken against BJP and RSS to ban them for running terror training camps; certified copies of prevailing national/international rules/regulations/treaties/ Government Orders as per which "terrorism" has been divided on the basis of religion/caste/creed/sect etc.; certified copies of list and all records available with the government on cases of infiltration and/or insurgency and case wise actions taken by government.

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Government Of India Doesn't Have Proof Of Hindu Terrorism 'हिंदू आतंकवाद' के नाम पर बेनकाब हुई भारत सरकार, सामने आया झूठ

Government Of India Doesn't Have Proof Of Hindu Terrorism 'हिंदू आतंकवाद' के नाम पर बेनकाब हुई भारत सरकार, सामने आया झूठ केंद्रीय गृह मंत्री सुशील कुमार शिंदे बीजेपी और आरएसएस पर भले ही आतंक का ट्रेनिंग कैंप चलाने का आरोप लगाते हैं लेकिन भारत सरकार के पास इसे साबित करने के लिए कोई सुबूत नहीं है। इतना ही नहीं, केंद्र सरकार यह भी बताने में विफल रही कि देश में अल्‍पसंख्‍यकों पर अत्याचार की कुल कितनी वारदातें हुई हैं। ये सूचना का अधिकार कानून के तहत मांगी गई सूचना में सामने आया है। आरटीआई कार्यकर्ता उर्वशी शर्मा को दी गई जानकारी में केंद्र सरकार यह भी बताने में विफल रही कि देश में घुसपैठ की कुल कितनी घटनाएं हुईं और विद्रोह कहां-कहां हुआ।.................. read full story at http://upcpri.blogspot.in/2013/04/government-of-india-doesnt-have-proof.html

YAISHWARYAJ Seva Sansthan & UPCPRI Protest for RTI in Lucknow pics

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RTI activists in UP to play flute in front of a buffalo to register protest

http://www.merinews.com/article/rti-activists-in-up-to-play-flute-in-front-of-a-buffalo-to-register-protest/15883510.shtml RTI activists in UP to play flute in front of a buffalo to register protest Ram Prakash 31 March, 2013         RTI activists in Uttar Pradesh, under the aegis of Yaishwaryaj Seva Sansthan Lucknow and Uttar Pradesh Campaign to Protect RTI (UPCPRI) will demonstrate on Monday, 1 April 2013 from 11am to 3pm at DHARNA Sthal, opposite Vidhaan Sabha in Lucknow. Briefing about the programme, Urvashi Sharma, Secretary of Yaishwaryaj Seva Sansthan and Founder Coordinator of UPCPRI said RTI activists would hold symbolic demonstration by "Playing Snake-Charmer's flute before buffalo" and "Offering milk to Snakes". "The buffalo symbolizes the state government and UPSIC, the flute the RTI Act, the flute-player the RTI user, the snake the public servant and the milk the salary public servants draw. Our dharna is based on two Hindi Idioms "BHAINS KE AAGE BEEN BAJANA" and "SAANPON KO DOODH PILANA"," Sharma said. She added that RTI Act in Uttar Pradesh was useless and bore no results just like playing flute into ears of a buffalo. "This is due to lackluster attitude of the state government and UPSIC towards effective implementation of RTI Act." "We may offer milk to a snake but owing to its nature it shall not hesitate to bite us and inject its venom into our body; today's public servants are like poisonous snakes who though feeding on public money, are leaving no stone unturned to harass their masters that is the public," added Sharma. She appealed to RTI users of the state to assemble at DHARNA Sthal to strengthen the RTI movement in Uttar Pradesh.

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लखनऊ: येश्वर्याज सेवा संस्थान लखनऊ के राजाजीपुरम स्थित कैम्प कार्यालय
में उ0प्र0 के सूचना के अधिकार कार्यकर्ताओं एवं प्रयोगकर्ताओं की आज
बैठक हुई। बैठक में उ0प्र0 राज्य में सूचना के अधिकार का सही क्रियान्वयन
न हो पाने के कारण सूचना मांगने वाले नागरिकों को होने वाली समस्याओं पर
गहनता से विचार विमर्श किया गया। बैठक में उपस्थित सभी प्रतिभागियांे ने
सूचना के अधिकार के प्रति सरकार, राज्य सूचना आयोग, अपीलीय अधिकारियों
एवं जनसूचना अधिकारियों के उदासीन रवैये पर गहरा क्षोभ प्रकट करते हुए
सर्वसम्मति से यह निर्णय लिया कि येश्वर्याज सेवा संस्थान की सचिव उर्वशी
शर्मा के नेतृत्व में 01.04.2013 को उ0प्र0 की विधान सभा के सामने स्थित
धरना स्थल पर ''भैंस के आगे बीन बजाकर'' एंव ''साँपों को दूध पिलाकर''
प्रदेश के आर0टी0आई0 कार्यकर्ता एवं प्रयोगकर्ता प्रतीकात्मक प्रदर्शन
करेंगें।

इस अभियान हेतु एक पोस्टर भी जारी किया गया। अभियान की प्रभारी उर्वशी
शर्मा ने बताया कि अभियान से जुड़ने के लिए सरकार, राज्य सूचना आयोग,
अपीलीय अधिकारियों एवं जनसूचना अधिकारियों के रवैये से परेशान नागरिक
मो0नं0 9369613513 पर सम्पर्क कर सकते है। ईमेल से सम्पर्क हेतु
तजपवचजपउं/हउंपसण्बवउ पर ईमेल भेज कर सम्पर्क किया जा सकता है।


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- Urvashi Sharma
Contact 9369613513
Right to Information Helpline 8081898081
Helpline Against Corruption 9455553838
http://yaishwaryaj-seva-sansthan.hpage.co.in/

http://upcpri.blogspot.in/

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Breaking the Silence Finally on Child Sexual Abuse

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Breaking the Silence Finally on Child Sexual Abuse. By Anjali Singh

Child Sexual Abuse is a topic few are ready to discuss much less
address. Thus it came as a welcome surprise when in May 2012 the
Indian Parliament enacted its first law specifically outlawing child
sexual abuse. Prior to that the Protection of Children from Sexual
Offences Act being notified, different forms of abuse with children in
India was covered by laws not designed to address them. So if a girl
suffered non-penetrative sexual abuse it would be classified as
"assault with intent to outrage the modesty of woman," and if a boy
suffered abuse it would be classified as per the draconian
anti-homosexuality law that criminalized, "carnal intercourse against
the order of nature."

But this would only help punish the perpetrator if the police and
courts would recognize the crime as non-penetrative sexual acts. But
whether the law would recognize it or not, Child Sexual Abuse has been
a reality that children in India have been facing continuously
irrespective of their gender or societal strata they belonged to. A
fact that a recently released report by Human Rights Watch confirms in
a report they released in Lucknow in February 2013. One look at the
report on child sexual abuse termed, "Breaking the Silence-Child
Sexual Abuse in India" and the horrifying reality would become more
than evident.

The report presents a dismal picture of child protection in the
country particularly when it comes to preventing sexual abuse of
minors within homes, schools and institutions. A comprehensive 82 page
report, complete with case studies and expert comments, it proves
beyond doubt the existence of child sexual abuse across classes.
Highlighting inaction against the perpetrators, Human Rights Watch
maintains while releasing the report that child sexual abuse in homes,
schools and institutions for care and protection of children is quite
common. They further stress that a government appointed committee in
January 2013 itself found that the government child protection
schemes, "have clearly failed to achieve their avowed objective."

And this when in a statement released by Louis-Georges Arsenault,
UNICEF Representative to India, clearly establishes children in India
are facing child sexual abuse. Arsenault states, "It is alarming that
too many of these cases are children. One in three rape victims is a
child. More than 7,200 children including infants are raped every
year; experts believe that many more cases go unreported. Given the
stigma attached to rapes, especially when it comes to children, this
is most likely only the tip of the iceberg. "

But as alarming as that sounds the current report released by Human
Rights Watch is not the only study done in India on a subject of child
sexual abuse. In 2007 the Indian government sponsored a survey called,
"National Study on Child Abuse: India 2007" through the Ministry of
Women and Child Development, GoI. The findings of the study was based
on interviews with 12,500 children in 13 different states, and
reported serious and widespread sexual abuse, thereby bringing on
record the gravity of the problem. Yet no concrete steps were
initiated to deal with the problem and Renuka Chowdhry, the then
Minister of Women and Child, went as far as describing the prevalence
of child sexual abuse in India as "a conspiracy of silence"

What was really disturbing was the fact that the survey confirmed that
72 percent of the victims said they were abused and they did not
report the matter to anyone. Only a small 3 percent of the victims'
families complained to the police or made the abuse public.
Interestingly, prior to the GoI study in 2007, an India NGO named
Recovery and Healing from Incest(RAHI) conducted India's first study
of child sexual abuse in 1998 called "Recovery and Healing from
Incest, Voices from the Silent Zone(New Delhi 1998). The study
interviewed 600 English-speaking middle and upper class women out
which 76 percent said they had been abused in their childhood or
adolescence. Shockingly 40 percent said they had been abused by a
family member mostly an uncle or a cousin. Yet despite the study
making its findings public nothing much was done by the government or
related agencies to address the problem with seriousness.

Explians Menakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director, Human Rights Watch to
Citizen News Service - CNS, "While great awareness has been raised
about sexual violence against women in India much less is known about
the problem of child sexual abuse in India. Those children that have
the courage to speak up against the sexual abuse they face, the
police, medical experts and even their families refuse to take
cognizance of it. The children are admonished for making the
allegations and reprimanded by authority figures as well. We too faced
a lot of difficulty in collecting information for the survey as no one
was ready to talk about the abuse they had faced." She adds, "The
interviews we conducted from April and June 2012 and more than 100
people were interviewed including independent and government child
protection experts and officials, police officials, doctors, social
workers and lawyers. We also spoke to eight victims of child sexual
abuse and relatives of another nine victims, who agreed to discuss
their experiences. One of the victim was a male and seven were
females."

The study also investigated cases of CSA within institutions both
private and government which had been well highlighted in the media
between 2011-2012. In the absence of effective monitoring of
residential care facilities like Apna Ghar and Drone Foundation in
Haryana where children were housed within an institution for care and
protection and abused by the people running the home were also
studied. Cases of sexual abuse within the Shiv Kuti Shishu Grih, a
government residential facility for girls in Allahabad, a city in
Uttar Pradesh had girls between the ages of 6-12 years facing sexual
abuse by an employee for over fifteen years and it was only discovered
by chance are also included. Cases from homes in New Delhi, Karnataka,
West Bengal, Goa, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh were studied where alleged
abusers were members of staff, older children and outside visitors
including police officers. But addressing child sexual abuse,
according to Human Rights Watch report is a challenge the world over,
but in India, shortcomings in both state and community responses add
to the problem, as victims who come forward make a complaint often
suffer as a result.

Ahmed, father of a 12 year old girl who was gang raped says, "My
family was ostracized after my daughter said she was raped. The attack
on her took place after three men abducted her one afternoon as she
was walking back to her home in the northern city of Varanasi in Uttar
Pradesh. We decided to inform the police after seeing her condition
and also as many school girls used the same street and we were afraid
for their safety. But instead of supporting me my neighbors shunned me
as my daughter was raped. The family of my elder daughter's fiancé
cancelled the engagement as they felt public knowledge of the attack
on my daughter would bring shame to their family."

But apart from facing social ostracism, Ahmed(name changed) also had
to face the ire of the enforcement agencies, "The police discouraged
me from registering the complaint and accused my family of lying. My
daughter was continuously saying she was raped, but the police told us
not to tell anyone and settle the case. When I refused the police
grabbed me and slapped me several times, they also beat up my son."
Similar insensitive approach of the police is stated by another 12
year old victim in the report. Krishna(name changed), also from Uttar
Pradesh says she was raped by a member of a politically influential
family. When she complained to the police, instead of taking action
against the perpetrator, they detained her at the police station over
12 days.

Recalls Krishna, "The police kept insisting that I change my statement
otherwise they threatened that something would happen to me. They
would also insult me and call me rude names. My parents kept trying to
see me but they did not allow them to talk to me because they thought
my parents would tell me to speak the truth."

While the CSA report exposes police apathy of in cases of abuse with
children it also make a strong point about the insensitive attitude of
the medical fraternity in dealing with child rape victims. Says
Krishna who went through a traumatic experience when she was asked to
go through medical examination post rape, "The doctor asked me to lie
down on a table and remove my clothes. When she examined me she
inserted a single finger inside me. It hurt and I was scared. I did
not like what the doctor was doing to me. She then said, "Oh, it was
just a small rape, it's no big deal."

According to Menakshi Ganguly, "The finger test has been banned by the
High Courts in most states, even forensic experts maintain that this
test has no scientific importance yet it is be constantly used on
victims. The doctors and medical experts examining a child who has
been a victim of rape maintained when interviewed by us that in the
absence of any training and guidelines on how to carry out
examinations of a child rape victims they have to use the existing
procedures which are extremely traumatic for a child. In most cases we
examined the finger test was used by doctors to examine a child rape
victim."

Agrees the mother of a three-year-old girl whose daughter had to
undergo a medical examination after being raped and sodomized by her
own father, "The whole experience was not only painful but distressing
for both me and my daughter. Instead of examining my child in a
separate room, the examination was done in a blood stained labor ward
in a govt hospital in Bengaluru which further traumatized her. The
doctor who conducted the examination was very young who knew nothing
of examining a rape victim, she kept asking my daughter if she had
bled and could she walk after being raped. Then she pulled my child's
leg back and she screamed in pain. After the examination my daughter
could not pee for 6-8 hours because of the severe pain."

As per Dr Shaibya Saldanha, a gynecologist who works with child sexual
abuse survivors in Bengaluru, "Most doctors simply do not have the
skills to perform such an important role. Unfortunately no doctor,
whether a general practitioner or a gynecologist or a pediatrician has
been given any training whatsoever regarding child abuse examination,
interviewing, how to take care, what are rehabilitation procedures,
medical and psychological needs of the child. They have no idea."

A situation that is even worse in states like Uttar Pradesh and Madhya
Pradesh shares Vinika Karoli , State Co-ordinator UP, Quality
Institutional Care and Alternative for Children, an organization that
facilitated the release of the CSA Study in Lucknow, "There were too
many cases happening in UP and MP and with no protection mechanism and
in absence of state rules on the Juvenile Justice Act it was difficult
to get a correct picture of the situation. Through an RTI we filed it
came to light that govt in UP was pinning the number of CSA cases in
2011-2012

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Invite : Uttar Pradesh Campaign to Protect RtI ( UPCPRI ) has
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Against UPSIC & State Government

For their lackluster attitude towards implementation of RTI act in Uttar Pradesh
on 01st April 2013

At Dharna Sthal opposite Vidhaan Sabha in Lucknow Uttar Pradesh India
By "playing flute before a buffalo " and also by " offering milk to snakes"
Please join us on 01-04-13 to strengthen RTI movement in Uttar Pradesh.

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हज यात्रा के लिए आर्थिक मदद नहीं देती उप्र सरकार

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हज यात्रा के लिए आर्थिक मदद नहीं देती उप्र सरकार

Created on Thursday, 21 March 2013 21:51

लखनऊ, 21 मार्च (आईएएनएस/आईपीएन)। कहने को तो प्रदेश सरकार में हज
मंत्रालय है, अल्पसंख्यक कल्याण विभाग और धार्मिक कार्य विभाग हैं और इन
विभागों का पूरा सरकारी तामझाम भी है, पर हैरत वाली बात है कि हज यात्रा
के लिए सरकार की ओर से एक पैसे की भी आर्थिक मदद नहीं दी जाती है। यह
खुलासा सूचना के अधिकार (आरटीआई) के जरिए हुआ है।

सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता और आरटीआई कार्यकर्ता उर्वशी शर्मा ने उत्तर प्रदेश
के हज मंत्री के जन सूचनाधिकारी से हज यात्रा एवं उससे संबंधित बिंदुओं
पर सूचना मांगी थी, लेकिन हज मंत्री के कार्यालय में जनसूचना अधिकारी न
होने के कारण उर्वशी का पत्र वापस आ गया।

इसके बाद उर्वशी ने पिछले वर्ष 30 नवंबर को हज मंत्री के कार्यालय के
अपील अधिकारी को प्रथम अपील भेजी। राज्य हज समिति के जनसूचना अधिकारी
अजादार हुसैन ने इस वर्ष चार फरवरी को पत्र के जवाब में लिखा है कि उत्तर
प्रदेश सरकार द्वारा हज यात्रा के लिए कोई आर्थिक मदद नहीं दी जाती है।
हज यात्रा पर होने वाले व्यय का वहन हज यात्री स्वयं करते हैं।

उर्वशी ने कहा कि इस खुलासे के बाद अब उनका सामाजिक संगठन अखिलेश यादव
सरकार को मांगपत्र भेजकर हजयात्रियों को आर्थिक मदद देने संबंधी मांग
रखेगा।

इंडो-एशियन न्यूज सर्विस।

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यूपी: अल्ला के बंदो के लिये कोई आर्थिक मदद नहीं

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22 मार्च 2013
इंडो-एशियन न्यूज सर्विस

लखनऊ। कहने को तो प्रदेश सरकार में हज मंत्रालय है, अल्पसंख्यक कल्याण
विभाग और धार्मिक कार्य विभाग हैं और इन विभागों का पूरा सरकारी तामझाम
भी है, पर हैरत वाली बात है कि हज यात्रा के लिए सरकार की ओर से एक पैसे
की भी आर्थिक मदद नहीं दी जाती है। यह खुलासा सूचना के अधिकार (आरटीआई)
के जरिए हुआ है।

सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता और आरटीआई कार्यकर्ता उर्वशी शर्मा ने उत्तर प्रदेश
के हज मंत्री के जन सूचनाधिकारी से हज यात्रा एवं उससे संबंधित बिंदुओं
पर सूचना मांगी थी, लेकिन हज मंत्री के कार्यालय में जनसूचना अधिकारी न
होने के कारण उर्वशी का पत्र वापस आ गया।

इसके बाद उर्वशी ने पिछले वर्ष 30 नवंबर को हज मंत्री के कार्यालय के
अपील अधिकारी को प्रथम अपील भेजी। राज्य हज समिति के जनसूचना अधिकारी
अजादार हुसैन ने इस वर्ष चार फरवरी को पत्र के जवाब में लिखा है कि उत्तर
प्रदेश सरकार द्वारा हज यात्रा के लिए कोई आर्थिक मदद नहीं दी जाती है।
हज यात्रा पर होने वाले व्यय का वहन हज यात्री स्वयं करते हैं।

उर्वशी ने कहा कि इस खुलासे के बाद अब उनका सामाजिक संगठन अखिलेश यादव
सरकार को मांगपत्र भेजकर हजयात्रियों को आर्थिक मदद देने संबंधी मांग
रखेगा।

हज यात्रा के लिए आर्थिक मदद नहीं देती उप्र सरकार

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सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता और आरटीआई कार्यकर्ता उर्वशी शर्मा ने उत्तर प्रदेश
के हज मंत्री के जन सूचनाधिकारी से हज यात्रा एवं उससे संबंधित बिंदुओं
पर सूचना मांगी थी, लेकिन हज मंत्री के कार्यालय में जनसूचना अधिकारी न
होने के कारण उर्वशी का पत्र वापस आ गया।

इसके बाद उर्वशी ने पिछले वर्ष 30 नवंबर को हज मंत्री के कार्यालय के
अपील अधिकारी को प्रथम अपील भेजी। राज्य हज समिति के जनसूचना अधिकारी
अजादार हुसैन ने इस वर्ष चार फरवरी को पत्र के जवाब में लिखा है कि उत्तर
प्रदेश सरकार द्वारा हज यात्रा के लिए कोई आर्थिक मदद नहीं दी जाती है।
हज यात्रा पर होने वाले व्यय का वहन हज यात्री स्वयं करते हैं।

उर्वशी ने कहा कि इस खुलासे के बाद अब उनका सामाजिक संगठन अखिलेश यादव
सरकार को मांगपत्र भेजकर हजयात्रियों को आर्थिक मदद देने संबंधी मांग
रखेगा।

इंडो-एशियन न्यूज सर्विस।

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Uttar Pradesh : Govt yet to take decision on appointment of information commissioners

While eight out ten posts of information commissioners still vacant in
the state information commission (SIC), the UP government is yet to
take a final decision on their appointments. In a reply to an RTI
query, however, the government has admitted that it is because of the
Supreme Court's order of September 2012 that the nomination process
has not taken off...............................


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उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार नें क्यों और कहाँ दबा रखी है निमेश आयोग की रिपोर्ट ? अब तक उत्तर प्रदेश के गृह मंत्रालय तक नहीं पंहुची है रिपोर्ट :सूचना के अधिकार से हुआ खुलासा

इन्द्र राज सिंह , अनु सचिव एवं जन सूचना अधिकारी-गृह विभाग नें 07
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जांच आयोग की रिपोर्ट गृह मंत्रालय में प्राप्त नहीं हुई है l

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Laptop distribution : Complete wastage of public money by Akhilesh Yadav CM UP

Shocker for Akhilesh govt: Students selling HP laptops for R 10,000

Right after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav distributed
free laptops to intermediate students, the recipients reached local
market to sell their laptop at a throw away price. Some of the
students were found ready to sell those laptops for mere Rs 10,000.

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The first thing most students had tried to do : change the in-built tamper-proof wallpaper depicting Akhilesh Yadav and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav

Removing Akhilesh's in-built tamper-proof wallpaper crashes laptops

Efforts to change the in-built tamper-proof wallpaper -- depicting
Yadav and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav -- proved disastrous.The
laptops crashed. And when local HP engineers tried to rectify the
problem, Linux, one of the operating systems on the machine, got
wiped.

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RTI reveals spendthrift side of UP CM Akhilesh Yadav!

http://www.indiatvnews.com/video/rti-reveals-spendthrift-side-of-up-cm-akhilesh-yadav--14372.22.html

RTI reveals spendthrift side of UP CM Akhilesh Yadav!

RTI reveals spendthrift side of UP CM Akhilesh Yadav!

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