RTI activists pin hopes on Guv’s directives for action against CIC - TIMES NEWS NETWORK
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RTI activists pin hopes on Guv’s directives for action against CIC
TIMES NEWS NETWORK Lucknow: There might be some action coming against the Uttar Pradesh chief i n fo r m at i o n commissioner (CIC) Ranjit Singh Pankaj. At least that is the hope running high among the RTI activists who had been fighting tooth and nail to get the CIC removed. The activists are spirited up over a letter sent to them from the governor’s office informing that the administrative reforms department (ARD) has been directed to take immediate and necessary action against the CIC. The ARD is the nodal department for the implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act in the state. The letter dated March 9 and under signed by special secretary to the governor, M Devraj, is something that activists are now holding their hopes on to. “If there comes an action nothing like that”, said activist Urvashi Sharma. The activists went up in arms against Pankaj after the Allahabad High Court slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on him for “misleading the court and extending favours to a lessee involved in illegal mining” during his previous tenure as the mining secretary in the state government. The order of the court was delivered on November 13. After this the activist organisations sent a memorandum to the UP Governor BL Joshi demanding the suspension of Pankaj from the post of UPCIC. It was in June last year that he was appointed as the same. The organisations and individuals had demanded action against him under section section 17 of the Right to Information (RTI) Act and his suspension “with immediate effect”. The memorandum submitted by various activists to the governor invariably mentioned that it is not acceptable that CIC is conducting hearings into the State Information Commission (SIC) even after being fined by the court.   URVASHI SHARMA |
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