This might be interesting to those who have been looking at Goa's Right to Information Act... Actually, this state has quite a good law (on paper), even if bureaucrats and politicians have learnt diverse ways of subverting it. FN
http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web612463180Hoot35408% 20PM1687&pn=1 Of the nine states which have local RTI laws, Karnataka and Goa have said they would enforce the national law and withdraw their respective state laws; Maharashtra has begun to prepare for enforcement of the national law. There has been no official announcement yet on repeal of the Maharashtra RTI act, but this appears imminent; Delhi is enforcing national law and will probably retain the state law with modifications; There is no news from Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Assam.
