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Maharashtra Information Commission; Established: 2 March 2006: Location: Shri Sumit Mullick,Chief Information Commissioner,State Information Commission 13th Floor, New Administrative Building,Mantralaya, Mumbai 400032. [1] Motto: सूचना जनाधिकार:॥ (Soochna Janadhikaraha) Information is the right of the people.
A digital portal has been set up, RTI Portal, [22] a gateway to the citizens for quick search of information on the details of first Appellate Authorities, PIOs etc. amongst others, besides access to RTI related information disclosures published on the web by various Public Authorities under the government of India as well as the State Governments.
The Central Information Commission is a statutory body, [3] set up under the Right to Information Act in 2005 [4] under the Government of India to act upon complaints from those individuals who have not been able to submit information requests to a Central Public Information Officer or State Public Information Officer due to either the officer not have been appointed, or because the respective ...
Freedom of information laws allow access by the general public to data held by national governments and, where applicable, by state and local governments. The emergence of freedom of information legislation was a response to increasing dissatisfaction with the secrecy surrounding government policy development and decision making. [1]
The main problems identified in the audit included: a fall in the level of employment, low rates of completion of works (only 30.3 per cent of planned works had been completed), poor planning (in one-third of Gram Panchayats, the planning process mandated by the act had not been followed), lack of public awareness partly due to poor information ...
Media reports of more than 300 instances of attacks on or harassment of citizens and at least 51 murders and 5 suicides can be linked to information sought under The Right to Information Act. Maharashtra followed by Gujarat tops the list for states with the most attacks on RTI users.
Recall has been implemented at Panchayat level in the states of Uttar Pradesh, [4] Uttarakhand, [5] Bihar, [6] Jharkhand, [7] Madhya Pradesh, [8] Chhattisgarh, [9] Maharashtra [10] and Himachal Pradesh [11] Recall has been implemented at Panchayat level in the states of Punjab since 1994 as provision of no confidence motion.
Bhardwaj has been involved with the right to information movement in India since 1999. Anjali has been very vocal on the question of accountability and transparency., [4] She is a co-convenor of the National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI).