Daily Excelsior: Jammu: Friday,
March 31, 2017.
A delegation
of RTI activists and lawyers including Balvinder Singh, convener of Sangarsh
RTI Movement, Dewaker Sharma, Deepak Sharma, Raman Sharma, and Adv Vilakshan
Singh called on Chief Information Commissioner Khurshid Ahmed Ganai.
The delegation members assured their fullest
cooperation to the newly appointed CIC and hoped that his huge past experience
would be of great help in ensuring proper implementation of all the provisions
of the RTI Act in letter and spirit.
The delegation also urged the RTI Chief to
take up the issue of appointment of two other Information Commissioners with
the Government so that pending cases of appeals and complaints before the
Commission are disposed of expeditiously. They also asked the CIC to direct the
Government functionaries and other public authorities to start RTI
sensitization programs for officers and general public as well, as per the
mandate of section 23 of Jammu and Kashmir Right To Information Act, 2009.
CIC gave a patient hearing to the delegation
and asked them to continue their mission with honesty and dedication so that
RTI becomes a mass movement and a tool to curtail corruption from the society.