Free Press Journal: Mumbai: Saturday, May 05, 2018.
RTI activists
forum organised a State level Seminar on Occasion of Maharashtra day and Labour
day at Bhupesh Gupta Bhavan, Prabhadevi to discuss on various issues in public
interest apart from this, there was a brainstorming session to discuss positive
amendments in the RTI act and to spread positive use of this act. On this
occasion an White Paper on RTI was also inaugurated.
This one day
seminar was presided by Ex Justice VP Patil and the seminar was innaugarated by
Ex Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi. Gandhi in his speech said
the the citizens of the country are the real Kings and Queens and hence they
should act like one and come forward and file RTI to create and increase
transparency. RTI act should be used for the betterment of the society, said
Gandhi.
Other speaker
Shivaji Patil said that RTI act is an instrument to provide justice to the
citizens of the country. Today it is necessary to strengthen this act by making
positive amendments, RTI activist Anil Galgali said in his speech that RTI act
is under threat due to the attitude of the government, he also added that their
is planned efforts to defame the RTI act by some sections of the government
executives and added that if government by suo moto updates all the information
on their respective website then their would be no need for any one to file RTI
application seeking information.
Ex Justice V
P Patil said in his speech that there is an information commision but there is
a need of tribunal to deal with the appeals against the information
commissioner’s.
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