SR College organizes RTI Program for KAS Aspirants’

SR College organizes RTI Program for KAS Aspirants’

Jammu, 17/Dec/2013: Today, a one Day awareness cum training workshop on Right to Information Awareness program exclusively for KAS aspirants is being organized by S.R College of Competitions, Gandhi Nagar Jammu. In the program over a 50 candidates including successful/ pass out of KAS Preliminary 2013 exam and   those student who are preparing for the 2014 competitive exams attended the workshop. The program started with an introductory note by Parveen Sharma, director of the college. While speaking on the occasion, Parveen asked the students to understand this act as being citizen and also in advance so that after being in government service they can provide information to the citizenry without any hurdle. RTI activist, Raman Sharma who was the special invitee on the occasion also shared his personal experiences with regard to the Right to Information Act and gave section wise detail of the act.  He informed the participants that Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act 2009 is a unique piece of legislation and it is even applicable to the Central government departments situated in the territorial jurisdiction of the state of Jammu and Kashmir State. He also underlined the importance of section 4 (Pro-active disclosure) of the act which is also termed as soul of the RTI Act. He also urged the participant to further spread the awareness about this transparency law  to people belonging to underprivileged class of the society so that they can also feel essence of real democracy. During interactive session, Raman also replied various queries of the participant with regard to state RTI Act and Central RTI law. 

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Raman Sharma in conversation with KAS aspirants of SR College of Competetions, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu.