The
Arunachal Times: Itanagar: Wednesday, 24 February 2016.
Altogether 38
Public Information Officers (PIOs) and Assistant Public Information Officers
(APIOs) from various departments are attending the two days Workshop on ‘Sensitization
on RTI Act, 2005 for PlOs & APIOs that began at ATI Naharlagun on Tuesday
under course fee sponsorship of DoPT, GoI.
Speaking on
the occasion one of the resource persons, Information Commissioner, Matheim
Linggi explaining the Preamble of RTI Act, 200 said, “Ours is a democratic
setup. In democracy, every citizen has the full right to access any
developmental activities of the public authority. The basic objective of
enactment of RTI is to empower the citizens in accessing to information of welfare
activities of the public authorities and to contain corruption and enrich the
transparent governance.”
Information
Commissioner Nanom Jamoh emphasized that as a citizen of India, everybody has
the right to seek information from public authorities. She advised that PIOs
and APIOs be well equipped with every sections of the RTI Act.
“Pass more
information to citizen, the more you inform more you educate the society,” she
said.
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