Rising Kashmir: Srinagar: Wednesday, July 19, 2017.
An awareness
cum round table conference on implementation and monitoring of Right To
Information Act, 2009 was held today under the chairmanship of Chief
Information Commissioner Khursheed Ahmad Ganai at Budgam.
The meeting
cum conference was attended by District Development Commissioner Budgam,
Registrar CIC, Additional SP, all FAAs, PIOs, and APIOs from concerned
departments, besides RTI activists from different areas of the valley.
The District
Development Commissioner apprised the CIC that since 2009 when the RTI Act came
into force, an amount of Rs. 11170 including revenue receipts were collected on
account of RTI related matters in the district.
He said that
up to March 2017, as many as 1460 RTI applications including 558 related to
revenue matters have been received and are under process.
On the
occasion, the Chief Information Commissioner appreciated the role of District
Administration in organising such a kind of round table conference on RTI
implementation. He said such steps help in appraising people about the use and
importance of the RTI Act and how to implement this in the best interest of
common people.
He said the
Act can be a potent tool in ensuring greater transparency in the implementation
of the developmental and welfare schemes.
He said the
aim of conducting such conferences is also to sensitize the Officers and make
them prepared to push up for e- governance.
Later, the
RTI Activists discussed threadbare the various dimensions of the Act and
emphasized the need for creating more awareness and implementation of the ACT
to ensure monitoring of government functioning in a proper manner.