News first: Sri Lanka: Tuesday,
February 07, 2017.
A media
briefing to create awareness on the initiative to implement the ‘Right to
Information Act’ at local level in the country, was held in Colombo on February
06.
At the media
briefing, the Executive Director at Transparency International Sri Lanka Asoka
Obeyesekere noted that the Act is strong in placing the authority in the
people, as it has fundamentally changed the way in which the state holds
information for its citizens.
“We now can
turn around and say we don’t need to answer if we are asked why we want
information, he said. “The information belongs to citizens and therefore we can
use that information”, he added.
Following the
media briefing the organisers held a mobile RTI Act awareness campaign.
Last week,
the government gazetted the categories of public authorities that fall within
the purview of the RTI.
Requests for
information can be submitted to the Information Officer at the relevant public
institution.
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