Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Palak Shah / Mumbai September 3, 2008, 0:40 IST Over 100 chemical storage tanks built at the Pirpav jetty near Chembur have been operating without approvals from the ministry of environment and forests for over 18 years. Each of these tanks has an average capacity of 200,000 kilolitres of oil. …
Retired police inspector Mohanraj plans to collect sand from the rivers in the southern districts and give them to the govt museum in Chennai Tirunelveli FIGHTING against sand smuggling in the State, a 56-year-old retired Inspector of Police, J Mohanraj, from Thoothukudi is on a mission to save the River …
the Maharashtra State Information Commission has slapped two top forest officials with a fine of Rs 25,000 for withholding information, sought under the Right To Information (rti) Act, for over a year. At a hearing on July 4, 2008, rti Commissioner Vilas Patil asked the officials
The Right to Information Act is supposed to ensure transparency in administration and governance. But a survey done by Pragati Abhiyan in Nashik district of Maharashtra finds that many government offices have not yet nominated a public information officer as required under the Act. Often information exists in a raw …
Meena Menon MUMBAI: The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) has published information on biosafety studies of Bt brinjal, developed by MAHYCO, on its official website. The data in eight volumes, runs into more than 1,100 pages. Sources in the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) confirmed that it was the complete data …
By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, Aug 18: Very recently the Early Birds had submitted an application to the office of the Chief Conservator of Forest (Wild Life) under RTI Act, 2005 about the status of Amchang Wild Life Sanctuary at the outskirts of Guwahati and the reply thereof had revealed …
By Rashme Sehgal New Delhi,Aug. 17: An RTI filed by the Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan (YJA) with the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) has highlighted that quasi-government organisations are illegally extracting huge quantities of water from the Yamuna flood plain. The organisations include DMRC, which is building a massive information technology …
Babus in the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest can no longer deny information to applicants under the RTI Act on the pretext that the information has to be collected from different sources. The CIC has recently rescinded a circular by the ministry under which ministry officials denied information to …
Taking a leaf out of Bihar's book, the department of information technology (DIT) has come up with the idea of setting up an RTI call centre which will allow applicants to seek information over the phone from any of the central government departments and organizations across the country. The call …
Enquiry and complaint are two chronic problems which plague divisional and subdivisional offices of the Assam State Electricity Board all over the State. Annoyed by frequent ringing of the telephone, most instruments in the complaint rooms of the ASEB offices remain uncradled. This is done just to avoid complaints. But …
- The Right to Information Act, once passed, will allow ordinary Bhutanese to be informed and get a responsible, transparent and accountable government. Though the Act was drafted in 2007, the cabinet is yet to introduce it in the Assembly. "Information is absolutely critical for fighting corruption and the government …
Systemic changes in governance are happening gradually. For instance, officials are scared if they do something under political pressure, they know they are answerable to the public. The enthusiasm for the act is there and it will go up- Ravleen Kaur Only one case (of appeal) is cleared in a …
The accounting firm will review RTI implementation in Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Orissa- report of Ravleen Kaur An 85-year-old lady was having problems getting her passport. She needed it to go and live with her children abroad. The status, the website showed, was delivered. Visits to the …
IN a novel campaign, farmers and environmentalists who have joined hands to fight an iron ore mining project at Kanchamalai in Salem, filed 530 applications under the Right to Information Act with the Department of Forests en masse on Tuesday . Over 700 farmers with their families converged on the …
eight shareholders and an institutional investor of Dow Chemicals have complained against the company. In a letter to the us Securities and Exchange Commission, they wrote that action should be taken against the company because it had not informed them of its liabilities related to the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster. …
An 85-year-old lady was having problems getting her passport. She needed it to go and live with her children abroad. The status, the website showed, was delivered. Visits to the passport office yielded little results. "We helped her draft a right to information (rti) application. When the department concerned was …
Information sought can be addressed to public information officer (PIO) of the department concerned along with the prescribed fees (charges under central RTI Act is Rs 10 per application. The law, however, allows states to chart out their own fee structure as long as it is "reasonable'). In case a …
Public Information Officers (PIOs) at their level consider proactive disclosure double trouble. "In many cases, there are orders from higher-ups not to reveal specific information. If a PIO goes against seniors' orders, he will be penalized under the conduct rule, if not, under the Right To Information (RTI) Act,' said …
On May 15, 2008, the supreme court declined to entertain a petition that sought directions to make it necessary for judges of all high courts and the apex court to disclose information about their wealth and assets if it was sought under the Right To Information (RTI) Act. The bench …
as the Right to Information Act of 2005 (rti) celebrates its third anniversary, the Union government has decided to do a review study. Officials insist that the study is meant to review only the implementation of the act and to find whether rural areas have benefited from it. But activists …
