| Raman Sharma | 10/29/2012 |
Recently a shocking event happened when a youth hailing from Jammu appeared before the media with an RTI application written with his own blood. While exhibiting his Blood Written- RTI, Deepak made a volley of allegations against the Public Information Officer and the State Information Commission and if there is some substance in his allegations then there must be an independent probe to find the facts of this case. The state administration and society must take cognizance of the entire episode.
Whilst interacting with Journalists this young man elaborated an apathetic story which he claimed compelled him to take this extreme action, narrating his plight he informed that he is being made run from pillar to post and victimized by the authorities to seek information from a government department. He informed that way back in April-2011 he had submitted an RTI application with a state government department and till now he got nothing but false, fake and illogical communications from the department. Showing date wise documentary evidences he also accused and blamed the Jammu and Kashmir State Information Commission of being insensitive towards the sufferings and grievances of the RTI applicants.
Anyhow it doesn't matter who is responsible the Public Information Officer, Public Authority or the State Information Commission but the most worrying part in this entire episode is that the innocent people here are so helpless, annoyed and frustrated that they do not even hesitate to take such an extreme step of pain and bleeding own blood, we the people must not ignore this call and must awake, we cannot afford to ignore this act and if we try to be ignorant of such happening around us then I am afraid anyone of us may be the next target of these powerful people who are so reluctant that they have made their mind not to allow citizens to exercise their right.
The people at the helm of affairs should also spend some time to know the cause of so much anger erupting in the minds of innocent citizens. Now people are so disappointed and irritated that they do not have faith in our system. Due to delay in judicial system the people are now inventing new methods to ventilate their protest and anger. I cannot judge the action of this person who wrote RTI plea with his blood but of course anyone can calculate the degree of his suffering that forced him to bleed. Once again I would urge all the concerned individuals and the institutions that are blamed by this young man that they should introspect that where the fault lies and try to remove. Let's not see this case with the glasses of Right to Information Act, there may or not be any fault of the information officer and the commission but it is about the present system, when in our democratic system the people are the masters then why only the people become the victim of this complexed system.
Raman Sharma is an RTI activist and can be reached [a] jkrtiact@gmail.com. Mob 9796811012.
published in Early Times and The Northlines on 28/10/2012 and 29/10/2012 http://www.thenorthlines.com/newsdet.aspx?q=57727
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