Daily Excelsior: Jammu: Saturday,
March 25, 2017.
National
Services Scheme (NSS), Campus Units of Jammu University today organized one day
workshop on Right to Information (RTI) Act under theme “RTI Vis a Vis:
Transparency in Governance” in Law Department of JU.
While speaking on the Occasion, Dr Arun
Manhas, Additional Deputy Commiss-ioner, who was the chief guest of the
programme stressed upon the implementation of Section 4 (pro active disclosure)
of Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act 2009, wherein the public
authorities are bound to suo moto disclose certain kind of information.
He said if this section 4 is properly
implemented by the departments then there will be significant decline in number
of RTI applications by the citizens that will save time and money of the
Government.
Prof Jasbir Singh, Chairman NSS Campus Units
of Jammu University called for judicious use of RTI Act and requested the
people making the RTI to refrain from seeking frivolous information to settle
personal agendas to save resources of the public authorities.
The resource persons including Balvinder
Singh, Convener Sangarsh RTI Movement, Raman Sharma and Dewaker Sharma,
Advocate Jammu and Kashmir High Court through their power point presentations
threw light on various sections of the RTI Act. Sharing details about the
information gathered through different RTIs, the resources persons asked the
participating students of the Law Department to use RTI for public interest and
to make the Government functionaries accountable.
In the end, the vote of thanks was presented
by Prof (Asst) Savita Nayar, Programme Officer NSS.
Dr Seema Rohmetra and Dr Meghna Dhar, NSS,
Programme Officers and others senior NSS volunteers were also present on the
occasion.
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