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Give prosecution & suo motu powers to Lokayukta - Petition indian - 25-JUN-2010
This petition’s been created to request those concerned to 01) Appoint the Upa Lokayukta at the earliest. 02) Give prosecution and suo motu powers to the Lokayukta. (If the Lokayukta has suo motu powers, it can speedily take up investigations on its own without waiting for someone to file a complaint.) 03) Dismiss the corrupt government officials from service. 04) Retain Justice Mr. Santosh Hegde after accepting his demands/requests. Justice Santosh Hedge's requests to the government as soon as he'd taken over as the Lokayukta chief 01) Give power of suspending and revoking suspension of corrupt officials. 02) Amend Section 36 of CrPC to confer police power on the Lokayukta. 03) Give suo motu powers to investigate Class I officials as well as politicians, who come under the Lokayukta purview. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/give-anti-corruption-prosecution-powers-to-kla |
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silkboard - 30-APR-2010
This is an attempt to "assembly line" the RTI filing process (expressed back here). Idea is to do a few things
The Club will put some measures in place to prevent misuse of the convenience on offer here. Rules will be built as we go, though be sure that RTI requests from projects & campaigns hosted on Praja will be preferred over individual requests without enough context. |
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Rithesh - 30-APR-2010
From Loksatta Karnataka Blog: |
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How about an RTI Club on Praja? silkboard - 18-APR-2010
Wanted to float a suggestion, just to check on feasibility and response from other users on this e-community. Many discussions, as well as projects here get into a situation where we need official records or status from local government or public agencies. In few cases, we get such information by just asking for it (email to BMTC, BMRCL etc). But in many cases, we end up with needs for RTI (Right to Information) applications. Almost every project here on Praja too needs support in terms of RTI filings. How about we create an RTI Club here on Praja? Members of this club would basically "assembly line" the RTI filing process in domain neutral way. Let me list the mechanics: |
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silkboard - 17-JAN-2010
Story from Pune area. RTI activist murdered, allegedly for exposing unauthorized construction of a bunglow in Talegaon. http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/17/stories/2010011761180800.htm The Hindu bit doesn't mention details of what was being exposed here. Does anyone remember a similar news item reported from Bangalore last year (was it around hooch/liquor shops, not sure)? |
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Right to Information (RTI) act psaram42 - 14-JAN-2010
RTI is a powerful tool provided by the Government of India and in tern by each of the individual States. Of late TOI and many news papers have taken the RTI route to expose scams themselves. To days TOI carried the details of the RWA meet organized by the paper yesterday (Wednesday). |
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sanjayv - 13-JAN-2010
Meet at Kadugodi rail over bridge location. Time: 11 AM
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RTI : Amendments requested by Lokayukta srinu - 15-DEC-2009
The Empower Lokayukta Campaign team filed an RTI with Lokayukta office to understand what amendments to Karnataka Lokayukta Act are they asking from the Government. We also put in couple of other questions about case details from last 3 years. Please see attached scanned copy of RTI Srinivas |
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More teeth for Lokayukta - justification and risks silkboard - 13-DEC-2009
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nijavaada - 29-SEP-2009
Has anyone filed an online RTI app yet? Any particular uniqueness in its flow? Any experiences? Does it work?! At least as good as the conventional RTI? |
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