How to use Right to Information

How do I locate the full Act?

The full Act in Hindi and English is available on the website of Department of Personnel and Training www.persmin.nic.in. It is also available on this website.
Who will give me information?

One or more existing officers in every Government Department have been designated as Public Information Officers (PIO). These PIOs act like nodal officers. You have to file your applications with them. They are responsible for collecting information sought by you from various wings of that Department and providing that information to you. In addition, several officers have been appointed as Assistant Public Information Officers (APIOs). Their job is only to accept applications from the public and forward it to the right PIO.

Where do I submit application?

You can do that with the PIO or with APIO. In the case of all Central Government Departments, 629 post offices have been designated as APIOs. This means that you can go to any of these post offices and submit your fee and application at the RTI counter in these post offices. They will issue you a receipt and acknowledgement and it is the responsibility of that post office to deliver it to the right PIO. The list of these post offices is given at http://www.indiapost.gov.in/rtimanual16a.html

What is RTI (Right to Information)?

Here is something very interesting, Most of you might be hearing about it quite some time now in television. “RIGHT TO INFORMTION”

Now, I vouch Each one of you might be facing atleast one of this problem  given below,

Is your, Application pending with corporation for water connection?
Is you telephone connection with BSLN pending and no one is responding?
Are you asked bribe for your site registration?
Is your application pending any of other state and central Govt offices?

If yes, then here is some good news for you. I request each one of you to go through this email. Its lengthy but gives valuable able information to avoid bribe.(Please take print out of this email and read carefully in leisure, if you are too busy)

We all pay taxes. Even a beggar on the street pays sales tax when he buys anything from the market. This money belongs to us. But where does this money go? Why are there no medicines in the hospitals? Why are people dying of starvation? Why are the roads in such pathetic conditions? Why are the taps dry?

Now we have a right to question governments. The Parliament of India has passed Right to Information Laws, which empower citizens to question the government, inspect their files, take copies of government documents and also to inspect government works.

What is RTI?

RTI stands for Right to Information. Right to Information is a part of fundamental rights under Article 19(1) of the Constitution. Article 19 (1) says that every citizen has freedom of speech and ex-pression. As early as in 1976, the Supreme Court said in the case of Raj Narain vs State of UP, that people cannot speak or express themselves unless they know. Therefore, right to information is embedded in article 19. In the same case, Supreme Court further said that India is a democracy. People are the masters. Therefore, the masters have a right to know how the governments, meant to serve them, are functioning. Further, every citizen pays taxes. Even a beggar on the street pays tax (in the form of sales tax, excise duty etc) when he buys a piece of soap from the market. The citizens therefore, have a right to know how their money was being spent. These three principles were laid down by the Supreme Court while saying that RTI is a part of our fundamental rights.

India 6th most dangerous country for kids – can u belive it !!!!

India has been judged as the sixth most dangerous country for children in the world, according to a recent poll.

Afghanistan, Palestinian territories, Myanmar and Chechnya were placed better than India in the poll conducted by Reuters AlertNet, a humanitarian news website run by Reuters Foundation, Rajya Sabha was told on Monday.

During the survey, the website asked more than 110 aid experts and journalists to highlight the most dangerous places for children.

The first five dangerous countries are Sudan, Northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq and Somalia, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury said while replying to a written question.

Coke & PEPSI…. R they Killing US?

KILLING US !!!!!
The Centre for Science and Environment on Wednesday came out with a fresh study claiming the presence of ‘pesticide cocktail’ in 11 brands of soft drink giants Coca Cola and PepsiCo, three years after the same brands were found to have contained pesticides.

The new findings, publicised after testing 57 samples of 11 soft drink brands of Coca Cola and PepsiCo collected from 25 manufacturing units across 12 states, claims that all the bottles examined were a “cocktail of 3-5 different pesticides” which was 24 times above the standards finalised by Bureau of Indian Standards.