Subject: (REVISED) DoPT CIRCULAR ON RTI ACT (SEE ATTACHMENT)
To: Date: Friday, April 16, 2010, 9:40 AM
(REVISED) DoPT CIRCULAR ON RTI ACT (SEE ATTACHMENT)
Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) had put a ‘Questionnaire to facilitate strategy formulation on RTI under the Performance Management and Evaluation System for DoPT’ on its website through RTI circular number 1/2/2010-IR dated 01.04.2010 which invited feedback and suggestions towards RTI Act from ‘stake-holders’ including civil-society groups (NGOs), Information Commissioners and Public-Authorities with last date to submit completed questionnaires as 15.04.2010. Questionnaire along-with the circular was removed from DoPT website on 15.04.2010 after expiry of deadline to submit completed questionnaire.
Are normal citizens and other organisations not on DoPT invitation-list are not stake-holders on RTI Act when no mass publicity programme was launched by DoPT to invite suggestions towards RTI Act? DoPT has simply fulfilled formality of inviting public-comments on the important issue by not making normal citizens aware of the questionnaire. Is it a strategy-planning of DoPT to fulfil formality of consulting ‘all stake-holders’ before amending RTI Act as promised by Prime Minister to UPA Chairperson. Evidently only public-authorities will only be sending completed questionnaire in absence of public-comments because of DoPT not making public aware about the questionnaire.
SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL
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