Government Engineering College Organizes RTI Event

Government Engineering College Organizes RTI Event

Jammu, 29/April/2013: Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu organizes one day RTI awareness session here today. On this occasion, college invited members of the Sangarsh RTI Movement as special guests including its convener Balvinder Singh  and Raman Sharma.

Daily Udaan

Pof. Atul Dhar, principal of the college in her welcome address appreciated the activists for their cooperation in brining awareness in the society. She also urged the students to utilize RTI for bringing positive changes in the system  and upliftment of the society.  Activists, Raman Sharma through his Power Point Presentation threw light on various legal aspects of the Jammu and Kashmir Right Act, 2009 and RTI Act 2005 as well. He informed  the gathering that   under central act any citizen of India can seek information whereas under the J & K state RTI Act only a person residing in the state can seek information from the government.  Convener, Balvinder Singh shared  success stories of his organization and urged the students community to be the ambassador of change. He apprised the participants that under RTI act  a citizen can also seek inspection of the records or even of any construction site and also take the samples etc. Later during the interactive session, both the activist also replied various queries of the students. Besides students, the HoD’s of different departments werealso  present on the occasion including members  of the co-curricular  activity committee, Dr. Veena Rani, Convener of the program, Dr. Sunita Kitroo, Er. Rajiv Bali, Er Sanjiv Gupta and Er. Karan Gupta, the event was  organized by this committee .  The program concluded with vote of thanks by Dr. Veena Rani, department of Humanities.

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Raman Sharma

Pof. Atul Dhar, principal of GCET.

Surinder, an Engineering Student

Balvinder Singh