Mumbai: RTI activists to hold meeting to ensure transparency

Mumbai | Tuesday | 16th July, 2019

Summary:

Stating that the RTI Act has been on a decaying stage, RTI activist have planned a series of meeting and measures to ensure that the transparency in the Act continues to have an impact. "Increasingly a number of RTI applications are being rejected to by sighting the Girish Deshpande judgement. It now appears that at this rate RTI will be perceived as Consumer Protection Act within the next five to ten years. The Commissioners will continue, a few committed RTI activists will work hard to gather information and the nation will claim it has a vibrant transparency law," said Gandhi. The commission needs to take non-implementation of the RTI Act seriously..