Yepp > On 24-Jul-2019, at 8:59 AM, srinivas kodali <iota.kod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The Right To Information Act of 2005 has ushered our democracy into one where > every individual can demand transparency and accountability. For over a > decade it helped revolutionize governance from village to the prime > minister's office. It made several government departments make records public > by default under the section 4 of the act. > > The open data movement in India has always been beneficial of the act and > it's provisions in promoting transparency in the digital age. The current > government has introduced an RTI amendment bill to reduce the independence of > the Chief Information Commissioners. The bill has already been passed in the > Lok Sabha and is being introduced in Rajya Sabha soon for consideration and > passing. While there are different reasons being provided by the government > to do this, none of them require the bill to be passed without public > consultation or discussions by the parliamentary standing committees. > > Please raise your voice demanding not to amend this bill by calling your > Members of Parliament from Rajya Sabha. Since the bill is being promoted by > the ruling coalition, it would be better to primarily reach them out and ask > them to have public consultation and larger consultation through > parliamentary committees. > > You can find the contact details of MPs on rajya sabha website at this link. > Please only call when the house is not in session (before 11 a.m in the > morning and after 6 p.m in the evening) > > http://164.100.47.5/Newmembers/memberaddlist.aspx > > Without the right RTI framework and independence of Information > Commissioners, transparency might become just another buzzword. Please make > more people aware of the consequences too. > > Regards, > Srinivas Kodali > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about > us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAGnvSPHpn4EMksttT2vo%3DROWoiafLazAwcubqzXrGqK2gNB3tQ%40mail.gmail.com.
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