Daily Pioneer: Bhubaneswar: Sunday,
May 08, 2016.
Right to
Information (RTI) campaigners and others while speaking at a two-day
State-level convention on RTI here on Friday and Saturday urged every citizen
to be an RTI activist rather than depending on others to seek information in
order to ensure transparency in every sphere of administration and society.
Around 1,000
RTI activists, NGOs, civil rights activists, political leaders across party
lines attended the convention organised by the Odisha Soochana Adhikar Abhijan
to mark the 10th anniversary of the implementation of RTI.
On the
inaugural day, noted social activist Aruna Ray had a deliberation on the impact
of the RTI Act and said that seeking information through RTI is a
Constitutional right of a citizen, and, hence, the RTI Act should never be
regarded as a gift to people by a certain Government.
She urged
people to use the RTI Act to expose corruption.
The
convention adopted several resolutions to fight corruption and irregularities
in administration and enforce strict implementation of the RTI Act in the
State.
Odisha
Soochana Adhikar Manch State convenor Pradip Pradhan said people are yet to be
sensitised about the RTI Act though ten years have elapsed into its
enforcement.
Sulochana Das
of the Congress and Lekhashree Samantsinghar of the BJP and other political
party leaders too attended the event and shared their views on RTI. On the
occasion, widows of RTI activists were felicitated.
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