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Citizen uses RTI to get elusive pension |
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Source: Times of India, 14 Jauary, 2007
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Citizen_uses_RTI_to_get_elusive_pension_/articleshow/1173663.cms The beaming face of Laxmi Devi says it all. The 80-year-old has finally got her pension after she'd almost given up hope, thanks to the Right To Information Act. Laxmi Devi lives with her daughter, who works as a domestic help, in Khirki village. In May 2005, she applied for an old-age pension to MCD. But despite numerous visits to the office, there was no sign of a pension. |
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After sixty years of neglect, RTI changes UP village |
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Indian Express, December 24 2007
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/19348.html In the six decades after Independence, nothing actually worked in the Naraini block of Banda in UP’s Bundelkhand region. The villagers periodically protested against lack of civic amenities, bad roads and sub-human living conditions but no one listened. Until they discovered the Right to Information Act. Things changed in just three months. |
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Finally, schools asked to show reason for poor result |
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Source: Indian Express, January 27 2007
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=219473 How alert is the District Education Department about performance of government-aided schools running under its nose? Not much, going by the ground reality: it takes an application under the Right To Information (RTI) Act to make the department realise that there are some aided schools in the city where less than 20 per cent of students who appeared for the Class X Boards last year passed the examination. |
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Fee scam unearthed in Maharashtra medical colleges |
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Source: NDTV, February 3, 2007
http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?fromtimeline=true&id=100363&callid=1&template=Education Medical Colleges in Maharashtra owned by senior politicians are in the middle of a scam. At least three colleges in Nagpur, Pune and Nasik have overcharged students by increasing fees to cover their bizarre expenses. The scam was unearthed after the Parents' Association of Medical Students got a reply to an RTI application asking colleges to justify the steep hike. |
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Examinee shown answer scripts |
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Source: The Telegraph February 4, 2007
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070205/asp/jamshedpur/story_7350648.asp The Board of Secondary Education (BSE) has for the first time provided photocopies of answerscripts of the high school certificate examination to an examinee. |
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