Post Tagged with: "Right to Information"

Do not dilute the Right To Information on nuclear safety issues: Chief Information Commissioner’s letter to PM

Do not dilute the Right To Information on nuclear safety issues: Chief Information Commissioner’s letter to PM

Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) Sailesh Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against diluting the Right to Information (RTI) act to shield nuclear safety regulators from coming under its purview.

Exempting Nuclear Safety from the Right to Information: Lets say NO !

Exempting Nuclear Safety from the Right to Information: Lets say NO !

Venkatesh Nayak Readers will remember our email alert sent out last week on this subject. The Central Government introduced a Bill in Parliament in September 2011 to create a nuclear safety regulatory mechanism. The text of The Nuclear Safety Regulatory Authority Bill, 2011 (NSRA Bill) is attached. This Bill isRead More

Nuclear safety through denying citizens’ right to information? Say NO to the amendment!

Nuclear safety through denying citizens’ right to information? Say NO to the amendment!

Even as we tirelessly debated and agitated over the Lokpal Bill and related issues such as grievance redress, whistleblower protection and judicial standards and accountability in 2011, the Government of India very quietly introduced amendements to the Right to Information Act, 2005. The Government introduced The Nuclear Safety Regulatory AuthorityRead More