Sunday Times: Sri Lanka: Friday,
January 13, 2017.
A gazette
notification on Right to Information (RTI) Act will be issued on February 3 and
it will come to effect immediately for public usage, Minister of Parliamentary Reforms
and Mass Media Gayantha Karunathilake said.
Following a
meeting with the members of the RTI Commission headed by Mahinda Gammanpila, he
added that all the necessary steps have already been taken by his ministry to
implement the act by the due date.
The meeting
held yesterday at the Parliamentary Complex was attended by Deputy Minister
Karunarathne Paranawithana, Secretary to the ministry Nimal Bopage, and other
members of the RTI Commission Mrs. Kishali Pinto Jayawardhana, S.G. Punchihewa,
A.W.A. Salim, and Silvi Thiruchandran.
The RTI Act
will facilitate the people of the country to access any information relating to
the use of public money. This will support to create a transparent
administration and to minimize the corruption.
According to
the minister, almost all the institutions coming under the RTI Act have already
been nominated an Information Officer and they will be given a good training
and their appointments.