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.
Bihar government’s e-Governance ‘Jankari’ project has bagged the National award for e-governance. This Jankari project envisages Call Centre facility under Right to Information Act (RTI).
The RTI Act envisages the role of a watchdog to the State Information Commission in ensuring the implementation of the Act both in letter and spirit. Says Madhavan G., Chief Information Commissioner, State Information Commission, Chandigarh, Haryana.
[This article was published in the August 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
