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Much ink has flown on the COVID-19 related right to information (RTI) applications where several ministries and central and state public authorities have used the exemption clauses under Section 8 of the RTI Act for stonewalling the queries. Now, the Madras High Court, in its order last week has sent a sharp and incisive message to such chronic dodgers.
The Madras High Court has ordered the Central Information Commission (CIC) to set up a special bench for hearing COVID-19 related matters, to work daily for at least three to four days on them and dispose them of as per the timeline, particularly for RTI applications seeking information under Section 7 (1) of the RTI Act. The timeline given for this is within 48 hours. It has also ordered the CIC as well as all state information commissions (SICs) to explore ``taking up matters on the virtual mode upon indicating an e-filing system.’’
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam
A question that I’ve been repeatedly asked is why I chose Heggadadevanakote (H.D. Kote) taluk to begin my social development work in 1987. Very few know that I did not choose H.D. Kote, but that it was chosen for me by two extraordinary bureaucrats. One was Nanjunda Rao, a retired special Deputy Commissioner (DC) and the other was V. P. Baligar, the then DC of Mysuru. They had heard about me and my intentions and met me in the Government Medical College where I was still a student. Baligar took me in his official car to H.D. Kote and we walked to several tribal colonies before he offered to help me set up base there. But for his proactive gesture, I am not sure whether SVYM would have started working there.