Dayanand's World

ALERT CITIZENS FORUM OF INDIA  A7/303, Saket CHSL, Thane (W) 400601   # 8879528575 January 8, 2019 The Municipal Commissioner, Thane Municipal Corporation, Thane. Dear Sir, R ef: Various directives, GRs Circulars etc of Maharashtra Govt and Central Govt directing local Corporations to ensure better transpearny, accountability and better governance.              This is to bring to your notice that there is an urgent need to ensure that citizens grievances are promptly redressed and RTI Act is implemented in the City in true letter and spirit. As you may be very well aware, our law-makers had envisaged easy flow of information from the Govt. Depts. to the citizens as it is very evident from the RTI Act, 2005.    But sadly, rather than get information easily with minimum efforts, this "Right to Information" has become "Fight for Information". So in order to ensure that the public is treated the wa...

An Application may be rejected under RTI Act if it:  (i) is incomplete in any respect,  (ii) seeks information, disclosure of which prejudicially affects the sovereignty and integrity of the country, the security, strategic, scientific or economic interest of the State, relation with foreign State or lead to incitement of an offence,  (iii) seeks information which has been forbidden to be published by any court of law or tribunal or the disclosure of which may constitute contempt of court,  (iv) seeks information the disclosure of which would cause a breach of privilege of Parliament or State Legislature,  (v) calls for information involving commercial confidence, trade secret or intellectual property, the disclosure of which would harm the competitive position of a third party,  (vi) wants information available to a person in his fiduciary relationship,  (vii) seeks information received in confidence from foreign govt.  (viii) calls for ...

The new tariff regime of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) now allows viewers to select the television channels that they want to watch and pay the maximum retail price (MRP) set by respective broadcasters for each channel or for a bouquet of channels. Our calculations and analysis shows that consumers will eventually end up paying more than they do now, if they wish to have a variety of options such as — news, entertainment, kid channels, sports and infotainment—that too in multiple languages. Since many families have members across generations, they will have to subscribe to multiple bouquets, since they are priced far lower than a-la-carte options. But that too, restricts choice, since opting for a bouquet would mean, leaving out specific channels of other broadcasters.  At the moment, although all channels are luring consumers with subscription offers, many viewers have been advised by their cable operators not to be rush since the TRAI’s proposals are unworka...