Sampur in the Spotlight after Indian RTI Request

The Sampur power plant project has come under further scrutiny, following a project synopsis released by the Public Information Officer of NTPC Ltd, India’s largest energy conglomerate.

Information and Power: The Evolution of RTI

Inside India’s Central Information Commission, Professor M Sridhar Acharyulu is hearing a case on illegal occupation. The applicant wants to know if the Registrar of Co-operative Societies, (RCS) which deals with housing, has complied with an order to evict an employee from one of its flats.

CBDT directs officers, authorities and CPIOs of Income Tax Department to comply with CIC's orders or face adverse action

Image courtesy: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/   While appearing in a 2nd appeal matter before the Central Information Commission (CIC), earlier this year, I came across an instance of gross and continuing non-compliance of its orders by the Income Tax Department.

RTI intervention discloses confidentiality clause in the Sampur Thermal Power Project related agreement signed between NTPC India and Trincomalee Power Corpn. Ltd.

Readers may be aware of a joint venture project between India and Sri Lanka that has been designed to enable the construction, operation and maintenance of a coal-based power project in Sampur in Trincomalee in northern Sri Lanka.

Jail Mail - Riots in Varanasi Jail : A Sequel

Four riots in jails in Uttar Pradesh over the last of couple months speak of a penal system under strain, crying for a human overhaul.

Refusal to share information against spirit of RTI Act

A. G. Perarivalan, a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassinatin case, had in a query sent to the Superintendent of the Yerwada prison, Pune, sought a copy of the entire file relating to Sanjay Dutt’s release and also details of the actor’s conduct in prison.

Number 57 Said To Number 3

April was a cruel month for the Uttar Pradesh penal system. May has not been kind either. Riots broke out in four prisons across the state. Jailed men in Varanasi, Kaushambi, Deoria and Muzaffarnagar went on the rampage and attacked fellow inmates, jail staff and guards.

J&K hydel project return plans obscure: FAA rejects RTI appeal

31 May, 2016 By Venkatesh Nayak Readers will remember my RTI intervention circulated in April 2016 about the NHPC's refusal to disclose information about the return (and not buyback) of hydel projects in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).