Major General Sudhir Jatar fought against injustice and unfair practices by powerful politicians and officers, and sought greater transparency in governance.
Over 25 years ago, the ‘Express Citizens’ War Memorial Committee’ was set up to construct the memorial by pooling citizen contributions in cash and kind.
Pune-based Sumita Kale, an economist and alumna of Cambridge University and Sushma Date, a paediatrician by profession, who are intensely pursuing a campaign to save the Vetal Tekdi hill—the largest green lung of Pune—tweeted as follows
That the Right to Information (RTI) Act empowers all is again reflected in the state information commission at Nagpur allowing a second appeal hearing of a death row convict. The hearing was conducted through video conferencing from Nagpur central prison on 15 June 2022.