Sangarsh-CHRI Conducted State Level RTI Workshop at Jammu
Jammu, 30/May/2013: Two days state level RTI training for trainers workshop concluded here, the program was organized by Sangarsh RTI Movement in collaboration with CHRI, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, New Delhi. In two days program the participants from different districts of the state including college professors, senior citizens, activists, ex-army officers, legal experts’ and students were provided section wise and rule wise information about all the aspects of the Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act 2009. As per organizers, the objective of conducting this workshop is to prepare more trainer and experts on the subject RTI so that they can further become ambassador of this transparency law and educate others about the same.
Wajahat Unveils RTI User Guide
After the RTI Workshop, Wajahat Habibullah, Chairman of the National Minority Commission unveiled a book titled ‘Your Guide to Using the J K RTI Act ‘ authored by Venkatesh Nayak and Nandita Sinha from CHRI. On this occasion Rehana Batool, Additional Deputy Commissioner Jammu, Nandita Sinha, Amikar Parwar of CHRI, Feroz Ahmad, retired IAS officer, Balvinder Singh, Convener Sangarsh RTI Movement, RTI Activist Raman Sharma, Darvinder Singh, Deepak Sharma, Rahil Gupta and Dr. Shiekh Ghulam Rasool, Convener JK RTI Movement from Kashmir were also present. Wajahat Habibullah while appreciating the Sanagarsh RTI Movement and CHRI for their effort of taking RTI to the people and for launching the user guide also urged the participants to use the act for the public interest. On this occasion special guest, Rehana Batool, Additional Deputy Commissioner Jammu also assured the organizers to give fullest support in their movement towards transparency. The members of the host organization, Sangarsh RTI Movement presented vote of thanks to the Chief Guest, Special Guest, Participants and other dignitaries present on the book release program.
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