Kashmir Reader: Srinagar: Sunday, 03 August 2014.
A Kashmiri
scribe Ghulam Jeelani has been selected for the ‘Right to Information
Fellowship 2014’. Jeelani is currently working as principal correspondent with
Network 18 group’s news18.com in Lucknow at Uttar Pradesh.
He is one
among the four who has been selected for the three-month fellowship in India.
Each fellow will receive a total stipend of Rs 2 lakh for the three-month
program. The fellowship is awarded by Ministry of Personnel, PG and Pensions –
a nodal Ministry for the Right to Information Act.
During the
three months time, Jeelani will work on, ‘Whether RTI has remained limited to
certain sections of society, or is it all pervasive in UP: A case study of UP
State Information Commission’.
“I had
applied when I worked for Hindustan Times a few months ago,” Jeelani said. He
did his schooling from IMI Bemina before joining Aligarh Muslim University
(AMU) for higher studies.
Jeelani has
been covering RTI as a beat in Lucknow for last five years as senior correspondent
in Hindustan Times. Allahabad High Court had taken suo-motu cognizance of his
story on vacant posts in State Information Commission thereby directing the
state government to appoint the commissioners within three months.
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