Jammu, 21/March/2014: Conscious Citizens and RTI activists have expressed deep concern over certain reports of misuse of Right to Information law by some mischievous people. While condemning all such regrettable acts and people, Balvinder Singh, Convener Sangarsh RTI Movement, RTI Activists Raman Sharma, Deepak Sharma and Dewaker Sharma , advocate J & K High Court have urged the Public Information Officers and other senior officers to expose these roguish elements of the society and lodge a formal complaint against all of them who under the garb of this transparency law trying to influence the officers and public authorities for personal gains.
The activists said the objective of the RTI law is to empower the common people, to set a transparent regime in the society and the information seekers should not indulge in such practices that defame and denigrate the intent of the law. They urged the government and other non-governmental organizations to organize RTI awareness programs to sensitize the masses for positive use of this powerful law which if used with a constructive approach can make significant change in the society and unearth lot of wrong doings in the public offices. The activists also appealed to the public authorities not to harass genuine information seekers who exercise their fundamental right (right to seek information under RTI) for exposing the scams and scandals.
published in jknewspoint, kashmir times, 22/mar/2014
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