The Official Government News Portal of Sri Lanka: Colombo: Wednesday, November 02, 2016.
Melanie Ann
Pustay, the Director, Office of Information Policy, Department of Justice,
United States today (1st Nov.) conducted a special lecture at Department of
Government Information, Colombo on implementation of Right to Information in
Sri Lanka.
The lecture
themed, “Implementation of Right to Information at Grass Root Level and the
Benefits received by the citizen” was joined by the RTI committee members in
Sri Lanka and the journalists representing local and foreign media.
Ms. Melanie
expressed the way in which RTI was implemented and practiced for the last five
decades in US and encouraged Sri Lanka to go forward with the recently passed
world’s seventh best RTI Act and also the second best such Act in South Asia.
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