Press
Information Bureau: New Delhi: Friday, October 12, 2012.
Dr Manmohan
Singh, Prime Minister of India will inaugurate the 7th Annual Convention of
Central Information Commission on “RTI:Lessons Learnt” tomorrow at DRDO Bhawan,
New Delhi . The Central Information Commission (CIC) had been organizing a
Convention every year on 12-13 October to commemorate the implementation of the
RTI Act, 2005. The Commission in the past six conventions organized so far, has
deliberated and discussed a wide range of issues relating to the Act and its
implementation with a view to learning from experiences as well as to chart the
future road map for greater transparency and accountability.
The
Convention will have panel discussions on Compliance, Lessons Learnt – Success
and Failures and Right to Privacy Vs Disclosure. Sri Wajaht Habibullah,
Chairman, National Commission for Minorities, Ms Aruna Roy, social activist and
Sri Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha are chairing the sessions.
Sri Shekhar Gupta, Editor in Chief, Indian Express, Sri A N Tiwari, Former CIC,
Dr O P Kejariwal, Former IC, Sri K T S Tulsi, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of
India, State Chief Information Commissioners/State Information Commissioners
from Bihar, Haryana, Punjab, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra,
Uttarakhand, Orissa, J&K, and HP are the other panelists.
The Session
on Compliance, Lessons Learnt – Success and Failures would discuss areas of
concern relating to record management practices, suo motu disclosures, usages
of ICT in dissemination of information, RTI rules and the status of compliances
of the directions of the Commission.
The Session
on privacy and disclosure would discuss areas of common conflicts relating to
disclosure of APAR/ACR of the employees by third parties, disclosure of
Contractual Information between the Public Authority and Private Organizations
and disclosure of ‘Information’ collected by Public Authority from ‘Private
Bodies’ like Joint Venture companies, Public Private Partnerships etc.
The Panel
discussion aims at discussing and laying down a way forward for legal and
pragmatic solutions regarding some of the areas of major concern in the
implementation of the RTI Act including individual’s privacy and the need for
their disclosure.
The
Convention would be attended, inter alia, by the Chief Information Commissioner
and Information Commissioners of the State Information Commissions, the Civil
Society Organisations/ Stakeholders/NGOs, RTI Activists, Central Public
Information Officers and Appellate Authorities of the select
Ministries/Departments of the Government of India. The members of the Bagladesh
Information Commission, including its acting Chief Information Commissioner,
are also attending the Convention this year. Other representatives attending
the Convention are members of Civil Society Organisation from Nepal, Maldives,
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Smt. Meira
Kumar, Speaker, Lok Sabha will deliver the Valedictory Address on 13th October,
2012.
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