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Concerned NRIs Condemn Nandigram Violence, File RTI |
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Immediate Release: AID Statement on the Nandigram
Violence
Concerned NRIs Condemn the
Violence and Assault on Social Activists
File RTI Applications Seeking
Government’s Position and Actions taken Please Register Your Protest Online:
Volunteers and supporters
of the Association for India’s Development (AID) from the Indian diaspora
across 40 chapters in the US are horrified and appalled at the barbaric
violence being unleashed in Nandigram (East Midnapur district,
West Bengal ) by CPI (M)
party cadres in collusion with the state machinery. |
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Save Indian Democracy's Transparency in the USA |
Our concern on this issue: Indian embassy in Washington DC is not implementing the Right to
Information (RTI) Act properly. This affects NRIs who hold Indian
passports and have the right to access information held by the government using RTI Act. - Embassy is not transferring information seeking applications to relevant departments in India but asking people to reapply in India.
- The Consulate General of India offices in San Francisco, Chicago etc do not have information officers assigned under RTI.
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AID Press Release: NRIs can now file RTI applications in USA |
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Quote from the Release: Our repeated attempts since November 2006 to get the Indian Embassy officials in Washington DC to implement the RTI Act went unheard, and then we were left with no other choice but to get in touch with the Central Information Commissioner directly," explains Arun Gopalan, a Maryland resident and an AID-ACT member. The Central Information Commission issued an order around April 2007 bringing all the missions abroad under the purview of the RTI act. It took one and a half more months of campaigning by AID volunteers to get Indian Embassy in Washington D.C. to accept its first RTI petition. See Press Release |
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Indian Embassy in USA implements RTI |
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Good news from the AID Anti-Corruption Team (AID-Act). Due to sustained efforts by AID-ACT volunteers, Indian Embassy in Washington DC has implemented RTI and the embassy now comes under full purview of Right To Information Act, 2005. Please spread the NEWS! What this means to you?
- You don't have to pay bribes anymore to get your work done in India. - There is an easier, cleaner and legal way - File an RTI application! You can seek any information on Indian Government functioning, from the USA.
Who can do it? - Any Indian citizen with valid Indian passport can file a RTI application in Indian Embassy.
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