The Telegraph India: Dimapur: Sunday, June 10, 2018.
The Nagaland
Public Rights Awareness and Action Forum will approach the Central Information
Commission for redressal after the Nagaland government failed to reply to a RTI
request on the appointment of 13 leaders of the ruling People's Democratic
Alliance as cabinet ministers and ministers of state.
The civil
society had filed an RTI application to the chief secretary on May 7 to get
information about the facilities provided to the 13 leaders and whether they
fell under the purview of Section 21 of IPC and whether the appointments were
in violation of Article 164 (1A) of the Constitution.
The Forum
said on Saturday that the RTI application was forwarded to the cabinet secretariat
on May 8 but no information has been provided by the state government so far.
The Forum
also pointed out that it had failed to receive any information on the report of
high-powered committee, headed by former Supreme Court judge H.K. Sema, looking
into the "illegal and multiple taxation" complaints.
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