Ranchi gets first Right to Information (RTI) cell
In what could help people and lawyers to access legal information, Judicial Commissioner of Ranchi Civil Court Navneet Kumar inaugurated […]
Centre nudges states to accept e-IPOs for RTI
The Centre has mooted a proposal to state governments to start the facility of electronic postal order, or e-IPOs, for […]
Improving Public Service Delivery
[This article was published in the September 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
By Naimur Rahman,
Director, One World South Asia & MD, One World Foundation India
Back to back-end basics!
[This article was published in the January 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Govt should pull its focus off the
24X7 call centre on RTI in Jammu Kashmir
Omar Abdullah’s new government in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has promised within the arena of e-Governance to provide for a legislation to strengthen the Right to Information (RTI) Act in the state. A call centre towards the same is being planned.
INR 1 Cr Demanded to Provide Information Under RTI
Gupteshwar Singh of Bankat village, a farmer from Bihar, with an average annual income of merely INR 60,000, was ordered to pay a sum of INR 1 crore to know how Public Distribution System dealers distributed kerosene oil and food articles over the past few years.
Helpline for RTI, NREGA in Haryana
The Haryana Government is planning to have helpline services for those seeking information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) Act…
Consumers can file e-Complaints for medicine over-pricing in India
The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has enabled online filing of complaints for making the redressal mechanism convinient for the consumers. This will help to keep a check on fake, faulty or overpriced drugs that consumers purchase.
