India Education Diary: Jaipur:
Saturday, April 20, 2013.
Chief
Minister Ashok Gehlot said that to corruption should be eradicated in the
public interest and Right to Information is a powerful weapon to remove
corruption. It has helped in opening the layers of corruption in the country,
he said.
Gehlot was
addressing the gathering here at HCM RIPA premise after inaugurating the newly
constructed building of the Rajasthan Information Commission. The new building
of RIC has been constructed by RSRDC on 2500 square meters costing Rs. 5
crores. The foundation stone of the building was also laid by the Chief
Minister in October 2012.
The Chief
Minister said Rajasthan is the first State in the country to implement Right to
Information in the year 2000 and later on the Centre brought RTI Act and
implemented it. Shri Gehlot on the suggestion to bring Public Record Act for
the effective implementation of the RTI given by the Chief Information
Commissioner of State Information Commission, said the Commission should
prepare a model of the Act and send it to the State Government.
The Chief
Minister said our former Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi during the Convention
in Bombay in 1985 had strongly condemned the corruption and he had vowed to
eradicate the corruption. He said to eradicate
corruption UPA Chairperson Smt. Sonia Gandhi had suggested five points in
Burari convention and the then Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee had
included these five points in the Union Budget and later on these points were
included in the State Budget also, he said.
Gehlot said
corruption should be removed in the public interest. He said the money earned
by corruption destroys happiness of the family of the person who makes earning
by corruption. Quoting the lines of a judgement given by the bench of Justice
Deepak Mishra and Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan of Supreme Court he said,
corruption which is prevalent today is hindering the bone structure of the
country’s economy.
Gehlot
expressed his pleasure over the fact that out of 72,000 applications received
by the Rajasthan Information Commission information was made available to
68,000 applicants.
In the
beginning the Chief Information Commissioner of Rajasthan Information
Commission Shri T. Srinivasan welcomed the guests and gave suggestion to make
Public Record Act for the effective implementation of RTI. He also suggested
that special selection rules should be made for providing work force to the
Commission. He also made suggestion regarding appointment of a nodal officer
for the effective implementation of RTI, Right to Hearing and Public Service
Guarantee Act.
Urban
Development and LSG Minister Shri Shanti Dhariwal, Jaipur MP Dr. Mahesh Joshi,
MP Shri Ashq Ali Tak, Deputy Chairman of Rajasthan Foundation Shri Rajiv Arora,
Chairman of Jodhpur Development Authority Shri Rajendra Singh Solanki, Former
CIC of Rajasthan Shri M. D. Korani, ACS GAD Shri C. M. Meena and others were
present in the programme.
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