Hindustan
Times: New Delhi: Sunday, 06 September 2015.
Before the
10th anniversary of Right to Information law the national public broadcaster
Doordarshan has stopped showing its weekly awareness programme on the
transparency law — Janne Ka Haq.
The programme
had started in January 2006, three months after the RTI Act came into force on
October 2, 2005, and had been running continuously since then.
For the first
time, the programme has not been shown on DD News for the last two weeks and
Doordarshan officials say many programmes running for a long time and having
very less traction among audience were being revamped.
An official
requesting anonymity said that there was a view within DD that old programmes
need to he changed for giving DD a fresh look. “In light of this the programme
on RTI has been taken off-air,” the official said. Akshay Rout acting
director-general of DD News did not respond to phone calls and text messages.
The Right to
Information activists term stopping of the programme as part of the effort to
prevent “empowerment” of citizens.
Former
central information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi said, “There has been a
hardening of attitudes in all the institutions of power against RTI.”
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