News International: Peshawar:
Friday, February 10, 2017.
The speakers
at a seminar termed the Right to Information (RTI) law and other rights-based
legal instruments as a major step of the government to achieve the goal of good
governance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
They said the
government through the RTI law and Right to Information Commission (RTIC)
should take strides to bring about transparency to the working of the
government departments, public sector institutions and other public bodies.
Addressing
the awareness seminar organised by the RTIC at Chughalpura for local
councillors of the National Assembly constituency NA-9, chief commissioner
RTCI, Azmat Hanif Orakazi said the RTI and Right To Public Services (RTS) laws
aimed at ensuring right to know and right to public services to the masses
which had already enshrined in the Constitution of the country.
He said the
inalienable right of the masses to know about the public affairs affecting
their day-to-day life had been secured in the Article 19 (A) of the
Constitution and the RTI provides the mechanism to ensure this right.
The RTIC
commissioner said the commission had embarked upon an awareness campaign across
the province to educate masses on the RTI law and its operation at various
levels in terms of retrieving information from the public bodies and
individuals.
Members of
the district, Town-II, village and union council (UC), students and elders of
village Chughalpura and suburbs of the city attended the seminar. Azmat Hanif
also urged the people to file requests under RTI so that those in the helm of
affairs could be made accountable.
Dr Shaukat
Ali, senior vice-president Town-II, also spoke on the occasion and stressed the
need for awareness about the RTI so that people could be educated on the law.
Commissioner
RTS commission, Shah Saib, district member Amirzeb Khan, Nazim Village
Chughalpura Adnan Awan and Union Council Chughalpura Nazim Murad Gul also spoke
on the occasion.