The Hindu: Karimnagar: Thursday,
October 13, 2016.
Speakers at a
round table conference on the implementation of the Right to Information (RTI)
Act found fault with the government employees for not disclosing information
sought as per the Act.
The Act
mandates that any information sought by people should be provided within 120
days under Section 4 (1) (b). But the officials were failing to provide the
same, they alleged.
Lok Satta
district president N. Srinivas and general secretary Prakash Holla said the RTI
Act was implemented 11 years ago to ensure transparency and accountability in
administration and see that the welfare schemes reach the needy. They said that
the government has failed to educate people about the importance of using the
RTI Act and demanded that it should fill up all the vacant posts in the office
of State Information Commissioner for speedy disposal of cases.
RTI Rakshana
Vedika district president R. Chandraprabhakar demanded that the government
register criminal cases against those who were misusing the Act.
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