- Signatures: 243
- Goal: 1,000
- Deadline: 8-15-2007
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While people were still struggling to get information from the “tough nuts” in the bureaucracy after the enforcement of the “Right to Information Act 2005,” the government thought of bringing an amendment. Everyone was expecting amendment and new rules to help overcome the bottlenecks and denial of information on flimsy grounds but what came in was a rude shock. It was announced that the cabinet wants to deprive people of the right to obtain copies of noting from the files. We protest on such a move and appeal to the Indian Prime Minister to desist from taking such an action against the interest of one billion people of India.
| Number | Date | Name | City | Country | Anything you would like to add in the petition as a message to the Prime Minister |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 244 | 1:02 am PDT, Jun 27 | Pamela Sahi | Chandigarh | India | Applying for information under the RTI Act has been made rather expensive for the common man by Babudon. Probably, in a bid to make it rather expensive to unover their corrupt practices and the shenanigans they get up to. Applying for information has been upped from Rs. 10/ - to Rs. 50 and photocopy of required information from Rs. 2/- per page has gone up to Rs. 10/-. Which means, for 50-pages, one will have to shuck out Rs. 550/-. Rather a lot don't your think? I think it is just another ruse of India's white elephant i.e. the Indian Administrative Service to cover up their dirty tracks by making it too expensive to keep track of their dirty practices. RTI fee should be reduced so that even a poor man, if necessary does not have to dip too deep into his pocket for necessary information. |
| 243 | 9:24 am PDT, Jun 25 | shripaul sharma | ludhiana | Uzbekistan | |
| 242 | 6:20 am PDT, May 29 | kaushik bagrodia | panchkula | India | well if this act is for the public betterment let it be completly trasparent as well as ste it free from any byass(pressure of politics) thn it will prove to be gud |
| 241 | 10:11 pm PDT, Mar 31 | Rajesh Sharma | Chandigarh | India | RTI is a right step towards Transparency. Give it a smooth path. |
| 240 | 9:41 pm PDT, Mar 28 | Atma Prakash Mishra | Chandigarh | India | |
| 239 | 9:08 am PST, Jan 13 | Supreet Arora | Chandigarh | India | |
| 238 | 6:38 am PST, Jan 1 | Simos Tarabatzis | Kavala | Greece | |
| 237 | 3:07 pm PDT, May 1 | Chandra Hasan | Arlington | United States | |
| 236 | 2:48 am PDT, Apr 26 | Sharath Chandra | bengaluru | India | |
| 235 | 6:21 am PDT, Apr 5 | Mark Raven | Flower Mound | United States | |
| 234 | 9:37 am PDT, Mar 12 | Jeffrey Burns | Ashland | United States | |
| 233 | 5:49 am PST, Mar 6 | shyamprasad mantri | Visakhapatnam | India | RTI implementation in andhra pradesh very poor |
| 232 | 7:37 pm PST, Feb 18 | Jason Bowman | Placerville | United States | |
| 231 | 11:28 pm PST, Feb 13 | Dawn Fifer | Spokane | United States | |
| 230 | 11:21 pm PST, Feb 6 | suchreet rekhi | chandigarh | India | |
| 229 | 5:10 pm PST, Feb 5 | Eric L. Gusovius | Hammonton | United States | |
| 228 | 4:04 pm PST, Feb 3 | Christine Iadeluca | Ballston Spa | United States | |
| 227 | 1:18 pm PST, Jan 27 | danielle sullivan | appleton | United States | |
| 226 | 1:20 pm PST, Jan 23 | John Corp | Auburn | United States | |
| 225 | 1:17 am PST, Jan 18 | Kay Handy | Odessa | United States | |
| 224 | 4:59 pm PST, Jan 7 | Anonymous | Joliet | United States | |
| 223 | 2:09 pm PST, Jan 6 | Anonymous | Dunedin | United States | |
| 222 | 11:22 am PST, Jan 5 | Jessica-Dawn Drouin | Sudbury | Canada | |
| 221 | 4:38 am PST, Dec 22 | Anoop Kashyap | Bangalore | India | |
| 220 | 4:02 pm PST, Dec 19 | Selina A. Lujan | Henderson | United States | |
| 219 | 12:24 pm PST, Dec 18 | buddy buck | Ogden | United States | |
| 218 | 2:41 pm PST, Dec 16 | Anonymous | El Cerrito | United States | |
| 217 | 5:26 pm PST, Dec 12 | Anonymous | Pittsburg | United States | |
| 216 | 8:11 am PST, Dec 6 | Angie Hamilton | Portsmouth | United States | |
| 215 | 11:35 pm PST, Dec 2 | Michele Long | Louisville | United States | |
| 214 | 1:42 pm PST, Dec 2 | Marvin Roberts | Waco | United States | We not only need to protect our right to information; we need to protect all of our rights. We need to overhaul our whole judicial system; we have corrupt judges, lawyers, and cops. How much proof do youi need; judges are being punished for taking bribe, and wrongfuly useing their descritiion. Past judges are writing books on how corrupt our judicial system is; we the people have to make a stance in order to protect our rights. I will sign every petition that is in favor of protecting and perserving our. |
| 213 | 9:49 am PST, Nov 28 | Matthew Herrin | Edmonds | United States | |
| 212 | 12:24 pm PST, Nov 24 | Rose Payne | Morristown | United States | |
| 211 | 9:44 pm PST, Nov 22 | Carole Ninemires | Paris | United States | |
| 210 | 3:55 pm PST, Nov 20 | Belinda Velasquez | Cedar City | United States | |
| 209 | 11:03 pm PST, Nov 19 | Metric Clay | Starkville | United States | |
| 208 | 10:30 pm PST, Nov 12 | Leopardesse Leigh | Greenbrier | United States | |
| 207 | 2:46 am PST, Nov 10 | misty rennebohm | Burnaby | Canada | |
| 206 | 12:13 am PST, Nov 8 | Anonymous | Scottsdale | United States | |
| 205 | 12:23 pm PST, Nov 7 | Jennifer M. Sabatino | Union | United States | |
| 204 | 11:05 am PDT, Oct 28 | Diana Martz | Toledo | United States | |
| 203 | 10:42 pm PDT, Oct 27 | Noor Alothman | Dhahran | Saudi Arabia | |
| 202 | 12:09 am PDT, Oct 26 | Carl Dexter | Portland | United States | |
| 201 | 12:54 pm PDT, Oct 25 | Astrid Doe | Deventer | Netherlands |
Protect Right to Information - Don't allow it to be amended
Dear Dr. Manmohan Singh’ji,
India was happy when the newly formed “Right to Information Act 2005” came into effect in October 2005. Despite the enforcement of the “Right to Information Act 2005,” people are finding it difficult to get information from the government and are still struggling to get information from the “tough nuts” in the bureaucracy.
While the people are still learning to use the RTI Act, the government’s announcement that it is planning to bring an amendment came as a shock. Everyone was expecting amendment and new rules to help overcome the bottlenecks and denial of information on flimsy grounds by the bureaucracy but what has been announced is a rude shock for the hapless public of India. We have come to know that the cabinet wants to deprive people of the right to obtain copies of noting from the files.
This move by your government will literally kill the Act. After the proposed amendments, the RTI Act will become just another piece of paper. We understand that the intent of the Act was to exposure of the inefficiency and corruption and to highlight that system is process-centric and not people-centric. The Act was also supposed to bring a greater level of transparency. After the amendment all these objectives would be lost.
We find that the gossips and evil intentions of some selfish bureaucrats are misguiding the political leadership about the RTI objectives and the political leadership seems to have given in. Once again, a few bureaucrats seem to weigh more than the voice of a billion people. The public is getting an impression that the selfish interests are once again proving to be heavier than democratic values. Please don’t breach the trust of Indian public at such an important juncture. Please don’t allow the amendment to the “Right to Information Act” take place. Please don’t let the public feel that they have been cheated.
The nation looks towards you to protect their unfettered right to get information. Please keep the nations faith.
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