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Hindu: Nizamabad: Friday, 30 January 2015.
Stakeholders
and Public Information Officers participating at the two-day national seminar
on the topic of ‘Nine Years of RTI Act, implementation and levels of
awareness’, being held at Women’s College, felt that blackmailing was one of
the major problems in the execution of the Act.
They also
felt that it is impossible to maintain the Section 41 (B) of the Act. Many RTI
activists are seeking voluminous information, they said.
Major
lacunae
Addressing
the inaugural of the two day seminar on Thursday, district Collector D. Ronald
Ross said that dissemination of information and pro-active disclosure are the
major lacunae in the execution of the Act.
However, he
made it very clear that no government officer is reluctant in giving
information.
Seminar
convener V. Vasundhara Devi said that the RTI activists from Bengaluru,
Hyderabad, Nalgonda, Prakasam and Nizamabad districts and PIOs of all
departments are taking part in the event.
On the
inaugural day, a technical session was held and today’s sessions will be held
on problems in monitoring the implementation and in training.
Praja Nigha
Vedika convener V.V. Rao, former Member of Parliament and college education
committee chairman M. Narayana Reddy, college principal D. Uma, organising
committee members J. Anasooya and B. Balamani were present.
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