PrameyaNews7: Bhubaneswar: Tuesday,
August 16, 2016.
Odisha
Soochana Adhikar Abhijan, an outfit spearheading a movement for wide use of RTI
in the State, strongly denounced the State Government’s decision for exempting
the Vigilance Department from the purview of Right to Information Act (RTI),
2005 and decided to organise a mass demonstration on August 19 in Bhubaneswar
and threatened to move to the court of law against the decision.
“A mass
convention of RTI activists and civil society groups will be held on August 19
in Bhubaneswar.
Later we will
meet Governor SC Jamir to seek his intervention to direct the State Government
to withdraw the decision.
If the
Government will not budge from its decision we will certainly move to the court
of law,” said Abhijan State convenor Pradip Pradhan.
Information
and Public Relations (I&PR) department had issued a notification on August
11 exempting the Vigilance Department from the purview of RTI.
“In exercise
of the powers conferred by sub-section (4) of Section 24 of the RTI Act, the
state government do hereby specify that nothing contained in the said Act shall
apply to the General Administration (Vigilance) Department and its
organisation," said the notification.
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