Republica: Kathmandu: Wednesday, November 29, 2017.
The National
Information Commission (NIC) of Nepal and the Information Commission of
Bangladesh have signed an agreement for mutual cooperation.
Chief
Information Commissioner Krishnahari Baskota and Bangladesh's Chief Information
Commissioner, Prof Dr Golam Rahman, signed on the agreement on behalf of their
respective commissions.
The agreement
was signed when the delegation from the Information Commission of Bangladesh
was here recently. The both sides signed a Memorandum of Understanding to this
last year in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh.
Both
commissions will review works executed at the high-level every year and
guest(s) will be invited from one country to the other as expert to programme
to be held in the field of the right to information, the NIC said.
Similarly,
both commissions will review RTI acts issued by the South Asian countries and
make initiations to revise the acts of respective country.
During the
Nepal trip, the Bangladesh delegation had called on the high ranking officials
of the Office of Prime Minister and Council of Ministers and the Ministry of
Information and Communications, according to Commission under-secretary
Bednidhi Adhikari.
It is noted
that Canada-based organisation, Center for Law and Democracy, has placed the
Nepal's RTI Act in the 27th position in the list of world's best acts while
Bangladesh is in the 24th position.
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