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 …
Key points from the PM's detailed document listing the administrative and legislative measures taken to implement the NCMP. ...... | e-mail | one page format | feedback: send - read | Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assessment of his government's implementation of the National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP) is not a …
The Manmohan Method * The PM is low-key but meticulous in understanding and implementing policy * He has monitored the NCMP on a monthly basis. The task was given to three IAS officers in the PMO. * Assessment of a political manifesto's implementation is unprecedented. * He has quietly pushed …
ONE month is all a government department gets to furnish information under the right to information (RTI) Act. Instead, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has allegedly used that period to persuade an applicant to withdraw his petition. On March 19 this year, S Samayan of T Kallupatti natural …
When Bijaya Chandra Panda wanted to cut down a few trees on his 8 hectare (ha) plot he thought he was well within his rights to do so. Little did he realize that it would take him 300 applications, 20 petitions under the Right to Information Act, 2005 and more …
The controversial Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor project has now been challenged under the Right to Information Act(RTI). UndertheRTIAct2004,the home ministry has been questioned which are the agencies and departments and officials responsible for clearing the project. It has also been asked what is the basis on which the project …
The department of personnel and training (DoPT) proposes to ask the international firm PricewaterhouseCoopers to assess the efficacy of the Right to Information (RTI) Act of 2005. The RTI Act has been hard won with activists raising awareness about the issue since the 1990s. They have now criticised the government …
More than two years after the Right to Information Act came into force, Assam continues to witness a markedly limited use of its provisions, which could be linked to its poor promotion by the State Government. In a large number of government offices and institutions receiving Government funds, there are …
The Union home ministry has suggested that the data obtained in the coming Census 2011 needs to be kept out of the ambit of the Right to Information Act. The Registrar-General of India (RGI), the body under the home ministry entrusted with the task of generating data on population statistics, …
In addition to knowing about and treating their poison-ravaged bodies, the people in Bhopal need research to know what lies in store for the children born to gas-affected and contamination-affected parents. Right to knowledge: A Bhopal gas tragedy survivor sitting in protest in New Delhi. India is considered to be …
February 2006: Divya Raghunandan of Greenpeace files RTI application with Department of Biotechnology (DBT), seeking data on gm plants March 2006: DBT gives information on trial sites; says rest of the data is confidential and proprietary and cannot be shared April 2006: Raghunandan goes to DBT's Appellate Authority for help …
The Maharashtra government has given away about 40 hectare (ha) of grazing land to Dow Chemicals for a research and development facility in Shendi village, 30 km from Pune. Villagers say they were kept in the dark about the Rs 400-crore facility and their dairy business suffered huge losses. Activists …
If you thought Chandigarh was all about greens, here's a peek into its "wild, red' side. UT, with its massive wildlife wealth, possessed by the high and mighty, can put any state in India to shame. It did in 2003 when its residents made a beeline for disclosure of wildlife …
Greenpeace Seeks Data On Field Trials; Firm Says It's Trade Secret. It's a classic case of commercial interest vs public interest which could set an important precedent. Genetically modified brinjal
Does putting full sets of clinical trial data in the public domain affect a company's commercial interest? It might. But does the public interest not outweigh this? Yes, because if the product is useless or harmful, there should be no commerce in it in the first place. The scientific study …
Speakers at a discussion here have said the right to information law, if enacted without necessary changes, will fail to benefit people. Right to information law should be enacted for the people not for the government, they said at the discussion on 'The drafted right to information ordinance 08' organised …
AMID much fan fare, the RTI on Wheels was launched at the Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration (SPIPA) here on Monday. The vehicle, conceptualised by the Mahiti Adhikar Gujarat Pehal (MAGP) is poised to take the Right to Information Act to the common man across the city. Equipped with …
China's growing influence in Africa is inimical to democracy in the region, according to Reporters Without Borders. The Paris-based media watchdog's annual report notes that China must take part of the blame for the growing number of arrests of journalists in Africa. "China gives aid to Africa without asking for …
the Government of India is preparing a report to show the hazard to workers' health from white asbestos is manageable. This came out in a response of the Union Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers to a Right To Information application by Madhumita Dutta of the Corporate Accountability Desk, an ngo …
first up, another tribute is due to all the people that campaigned and supported the Right To Information Act, 2005. But for this vital legislation, we would have been so much the poorer for not learning what a national disgrace India's union government's ministry of chemicals and fertilizers is. Kudos …
