Demands Appointment of Information Commissioners
Jammu, 21/Aug/2018; Recently a delegation of RTI activists from Jammu including lawyers met Khurshid Ahmed Gani, Advisor to Governor and presented their demands through a memorandum wherein they asked for immediate appointment of members of the state information commission and organizing RTI awareness programs in educational institutions.
In the memorandum they have also suggested to amend section 12 of the Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act 2009 to clear the impediment for appointment of the members of the Information Commission, as under present law, the appointments of Information Commissioners are to be done by Chief Minister, a Minister of the state government and leader of opposition in the Legislative Assembly.
Advisor Ganai gave a patient hearing to activists and assured them the present regime headed by governor is serious in proper implementation of the RTI Act and he would convey the concern of the activist to the governor. Taking cognizance of the another demand of the delegation regarding awareness and RTI sensitization programs, he immediately directed director school education Jammu who was also present during the meeting to organize such an event next month involving zonal level officers of the school education department for RTI sensitization.
The delegation of activists who presented the memorandum include S.Balvinder Singh, Convener Sangarsh RTI Movement, RTI Activist Raman Sharma , Advocate Dewaker Sharma and Advocate Hunar Gupta.
