Author : Nadeem Inamdar
Improved public governance aimed at reforming the police and judiciary alone can guarantee justice to rape victims. This was among the views expressed by experts at a seminar on 'Rape victims and the Right to Information Act, 2005' held in the city on Saturday.
Experts, legal luminaries and prominent personalities attended the seminar organised by Public Concern for Governance Trust (PCGT), Pune chapter on the Sancheti Hospital premises.
Former Mumbai Sheriff and world chairman of Giants International Nana Chudasama stressed the need for enhancing governance quality and maintained that it alone could be a panacea for all the ills afflicting the Indian society.
"The Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005 alone can guarantee strengthening of the democratic ideals," he said.
Lambasting minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor, Chudasama said, "Let the minister resign as he has no moral right to continue in the same position. Politicians should be completely banned from entering the sports arena and a law should be enacted for implementing the same," he added.
Managing director of Serum Institute of India Dr Cyrus Poonawalla said that he was ready to spend crores if the PCGT took up the case of reforming the government departments, especially the courts and the police.
Member of advisory council of PCGT Justice PM Dhakephalkar said there was a need for widening of the definition of rape. Trustee Narayan Varma's book Right to Information Act, A Route To Good Governance was also released on the occasion.
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