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033798
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Rishabh Publishing House, 2017.
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vi ;410pp
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PB.
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033796
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Mumbai, Vakils, Feffer and Simons pvt ltd, 2016.
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91pp
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The Indian law is rated as the third best in the world as far as its provisions go, but the rating for implementation and actual transparency ranks India at number 66.
There is a growing tendency from those with power to misinterpret the RTI Act almost to a point where it does not really represent what the law says. This book is the most authentic interpretation of the RTI Act 2005, obtained after a discussion between four RTI veterans: Toby Mendel (International expert), Satyananda Mishra (former Chief Information Commissioner), Pralhad Kachare (former head of RTI cell in Yashada) and Shailesh Gandhi (former Central Information Commissioner).
The Right to Information Act has definitely been a powerful empowering legislation for citizens. It has caught the imagination of people in the country and rough estimates suggest that there may be about six to eight million applications filed in 2015. Many users, Public Information Officers (PIOs), First Appellate Authorities and Information Commissioners have varying perspectives on the law.
It is possible to give diverse interpretations to any law based on a variety of different Supreme Court judgments. This book is an attempt to draw meaning from the words in the law, keeping the preamble in mind. Therefore judgments of Information Commissions or Courts are not quoted in this explanation of the RTI Act. The Right to Information Act overrides all earlier acts or rules as far as giving information is concerned. The only exception will be if release of some information is prohibited in the Constitution.
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Chapter I - Preliminary Sections
Section 1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 2. Definitions.
Chapter II - Right to Information and Obligations of Public Authorities
Section 3. Right to information.
Section 4. Obligations of public authorities.
Section 5. Designation of Public Information Officers.
Section 6. Request for obtaining information.
Section 7. Disposal of request.
Section 8. Exemption from disclosure of information.
Section 9. Grounds for rejection to access in certain cases.
Section 10. Severability.
Section 11. Third party information.
Chapter III - The Central Information Commission
Section 12. Constitution of Central Information Commission.
Section 13. Term of office and conditions of service.
Section 14. Removal of Chief Information Commissioner or Information Commissioner.
Chapter IV - The State Information Commission
Section 15. Constitution of State Information Commission.
Section 16. Terms of office and conditions of service.
Section 17. Removal of State Chief Information Commissioner and State Information Commissioner.
Chapter V - Powers and Functions of the Information Commissions, Appeal and Penalties
Section 18. Powers and functions of Information Commissions.
Section 19. Appeal.
Section 20. Penalties.
Chapter VI - Miscellaneous
Section 21. Protection of action taken in good faith.
Section 22. Act to have overriding effect.
Section 23. Bar of jurisdiction of courts.
Section 24. Act not to apply in certain organizations.
Section 25. Monitoring and reporting.
Section 26. Appropriate Government to prepare programmes.
Section 27. Power to make rules by appropriate Government.
Section 28. Power to make rules by competent authority.
Section 29. Laying of rules.
Section 30. Power to remove difficulties.
Section 31. Repeal
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978-81-8462-139-5 PB.
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| JR6247 | 323.445/GAN | Main | On Shelf | General | Cup.No 13 |
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035954
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New Delhi, Lotus Collection, 2018.
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xxiv ;375pp
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This book is a collective history that tells the story of how ordinary people can come together and prevail against great odds, to make democracy more meaningful.
The RTI Act has been true to its mandate, faithful to its promise. From a ration shop in a hamlet to the president's residence in Delhi, it has done what it should be doing. Like any other law, it has had its saboteurs, abusers. A redemptive law should be judged by its successes, but be ready to be questioned for its failings. An Act that brings about accountability should not be coy when it is itself called to account.The Act has come, like all Acts come, from the wisdom of the Indian parliament. Curiously, it is in its birthplace, its own cradle, the Hon'ble Parliament, that the Act seems to have found some of its most vociferous detractors. They have their reasons. Sections of the political class and of the bureaucracy have also developed methods to tiptoe round provisions of the Act. They have their skills. This weakens the impact of the Act. There is another 'problem'. The Act's workforce, namely, the personnel in the information commissions, reflect all the diversity of our population. Our information commissions and their secretariats have had in their personnel from the many active to not-a-few slothful, from the many dedicated to the not-so-few sceptical. And they include, one might add, some fearful and some rather compromised. 'Compromise' does not need explaining. But all this does not dishearten the true harbingers of the Act who remain prepared to test its working against its experience.
Behind the RTI story lies one hugely dismaying fact: the lives of RTI activists and campaigners are at risk. As many as sixty of them have lost their lives. They are martyrs to the cause of the good state, of public accountability, constitutional morality. We honour them. Just as we mourn the loss of brave soldiers protecting our nation's territorial integrity, we mourn the loss of brave soldiers protecting our constitutional integrity. The tragedy is that one is killed by bullets from across the border, and the other by one of our own.
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Introduction
Chapter One - Devdungri: The Beginning
Chapter Two - Sohangarh and the Struggle for Land
Chapter Three - The Concept and Birth of the MKSS
Chapter Four - The First Hunger Strike, 1990
Chapter Five - The Bhim Minimum Wages Sammelan
Chapter Six - The Second Hunger Strike, 1991 - A Watershed
Chapter Seven - Exposing the Myth of the Free and Open Market
Chapter Eight - Articulating the Demand for Transparency
Chapter Nine - MKSS and Public Hearings
Chapter Ten - Political Promises and Accountability
Chapter Eleven - Hamara Paisa Hamara Hisab: Beawar and Jaipur Dharnas, 1996
Chapter Twelve - The Formation of the NCPRI and the Making of the Law
Chapter Thirteen - The Process and the Campaign Travel: The Public Hearings
Chapter Fourteen - The Rajasthan Divisional Dharnas
Chapter Fifteen - The Dharna in Jaipur: May-August, 1997
Chapter Sixteen - NCPRI and the State Laws
Chapter Seventeen - The Second Set of Jan Sunwais
Chapter Eighteen - The Rajasthan State Act - An Intermediate Success
Chapter Nineteen - The Challenge of Elections
Chapter Twenty - The Public Hearings in Umarwas
Chapter Twenty-One - Janawad Jan Sunwai
Chapter Twenty-Two - Government Enquiry Endorses Janawad Public Hearings
Chapter Twenty-Three - NCPRI Convention, Beawar 2001
Chapter Twenty-Four - Post-Janawad and the Response of the Government of Rajasthan
Chapter Twenty-Five - Jan Niti Abhiyan
Chapter Twenty-Six - Freedom of Information Bill, 2002
Chapter Twenty-Seven - Friends and Colleagues in Delhi
Chapter Twenty-Eight - Second NCPRI, 2004
Chapter Twenty-Nine - RTI Law 2005 and the NAC
Chapter Thirty - RTI Amendments, 2006
In Conclusion
Notes
Annexure I - The Beawar Declaration
Annexure II - The Freedom of Information Bill, 2000
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978-81-8462-139-5 PB.
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| JR6245 | 323.445/ROY | Main | On Shelf | General | Cup.No 13 |
| JR6246 | 323.445/ROY | Main | On Shelf | General | Cup.No 13 |
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