Free Press Journal: Bhopal: Friday,
October 14, 2016.
RTI activist
Ajay Dubey highly criticised the Madhya Pradesh government and Madhya Pradesh
State Information Commission for not promoting Right to Information (RTI) Act
on its 11th year of enforcement. Dubey also claimed that MPSIC is itself
scandalous than how can it promote the RTI Act.
In a press
conference on Wednesday, Dubey presented documents against the state government
and said that in the state, two rupees is charged per page for photocopy of
documents for RTI applications and itself pays 45 paisa to the contractor. The
state government also charges Rs 50 for the first appeal and Rs 100 for the
second appeal under section 27 of the Act, despite the Central Government has
been made a provision of making both the appeals free.
He also
highlighted that the online application of RTI has yet not been started in the
state which was started by the central government in 2013. “MPSIC does not have
a proper website till now and there is no FIR for the lost file of the website.
The building of MPSIC was constructed in 2013 at a cost of Rs 8 crore and now
it has started crumbling. In State, more than 70 per cent RTI applications are
not replied properly and this has also been pointed out by other RTI activists
as well.
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