The Hindu: BHUBANESWAR: Friday, May 26, 2017.
Odisha-based
activist Akhand entered the Limca Book of Records for the highest number of
replies received from a single organisation on a Right to Information (RTI)
application.
In less than
three months from February to April in 2016, he had received 333 replies from
the Department of Posts.
According to
Limca Book of Records, he had received 162 replies in February, 157 in March
and 14 in April, making it the highest number of such replies received from a
single organisation on an RTI petition.
Complaint
committees
Mr. Akhand
had filed a petition under the RTI Act, 2005 with the Department of Posts on
January 22, 2016 asking whether Internal Complaint Committees (ICC) had been
formed at various divisions of the department as per the Sexual Harassment of
Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.
According to
him, similar applications were filed with the Home Ministry, Defence Ministry,
Ministry of Railways, External Affairs Ministry and the Department of Women and
Child. Applications were also filed with State government departments such as
Higher Education, Mass Education, Home, and Health and Family Welfare.
“I got
maximum replies from the Department of Posts. Almost all public information
officers had provided information,” said Mr. Akhand, who has been working on
human rights using RTI as a tool for his works.
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