Rajkumar Jha, a resident of Mahuar village in the Asai Panchayat of Darbhanga district, has filed an RTI application with the Central government. It will be interesting to see what response the government provides to this RTI application.
The RTI query, filed by a Pune-based activist, asked two questions regarding the working hours and quality of Prime Minister's work.
Interestingly, the man did not have to pay the stipulated Rs 2 per page since his plea was not answered within one month.
The management of the shrine had earlier refused to give details due to security reasons. The RTI document, which was provided after an appeal, showed that the temple owns 6,605 kg of silver, 19,981 gold lockets and 5,359 silver ones.
Some of the arrested accused were having police protection and a few of them also had arms licenses. But, after the arrest, their police security has been removed and their arms licenses seized
The matter came into the limelight when Aligarh's RTI activist Keshav Dev Sharma filed an RTI in the Municipal Corporation regarding Jama Masjid. In response to this, the Municipal Corporation said that the 300-year-old Jama Masjid located in Upperkot has been constructed in a public place.
According to information, the worst situation is at Safdarjung Hospital, where in the last 81 months, on average, more than 11 women lost their lives after delivery every month.
The RTI query was filed by Madhya Pradesh-based Chandra Shekar Guar. Officials indicated that the highest number of such cancellations in recent history was in 2019, when around 3,146 trains were cancelled due to maintenance work.
The petition challenges a June 2, 2020 order of the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO), PMO, refusing to provide documents sought by him on the ground that PM CARES Fund is not a public authority under the RTI Act.
Prominent RTI activist Saket Gokhale joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday, in the presence of party leaders including Derek O'Brien and Yashwant Sinha.
Private schools did not provide information under RTI on the grounds that they were not funded by the state and were outside the purview of the Act.
The Union Health Ministry has said in response to an RTI application that it does not know where records related to agenda circulated in meetings of the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 are held.
Over 160 rape cases have been reported on railway premises and on-board running trains between 2017 and 2019, an RTI query has found.
Over 3,000 trains were cancelled last year due to maintenance works on the Indian Railways network, the highest since 2014, the national transporter said in response to an RTI query.
After an RTI query revealed the nationality of 82 foreign students in Jawaharlal Nehru University remains unavailable in the list of foreign students registered in the monsoon and winter sessions 2019- 20.
Biometric systems and CCTV cameras at the server room were not vandalised in the first week of January, contrary to the claims made by the Jawaharlal Nehru University administration that students had destroyed them on January 3, the varsity has said in a RTI reply.
For the non-teaching staff, 187 posts are filled against a sanctioned strength of 382 posts, including the important posts of examination controller, director, dean, and student welfare officer.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday carried out searches at the residence of RTI activist Akhil Gogoi, who was arrested earlier this month, in Guwahati, officials said. The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) leader, whose custody is slated to end on Friday, was booked by the agency under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and stringent Unlawful (Activities) Prevention Act.
18 seats at the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee (IIT-Roorkee) have remained vacant for this academic year, an RTI query revealed.
A large number of applications and appeals filed under the Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act, 2009, would have been pending on the date of bifurcation.
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