‘J and K creating hurdles’
Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday accused the Jammu and Kashmir government of institutional incompetence. They attacked government for slowly making the Right to Information Act a "toothless tiger" in the state.
"The manner in which hurdles are deliberately being created to avoid effective RTI implementation apparently points out that the government and its administration are hell bent on avoiding answers as it fears that 'genie' may come out of the bottle," PDP general secretary Mohammad Dilawar Mir said in a statement here.
He alleged the National Conference-led coalition government was circumventing the Act, by either making absurd excuses or making its process tedious by commercialising it. He said despite Chief Information Commissioner's recommendation and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's hollow assurance vis-a-vis slashing of RTI application fee and photostat charges, nothing has been done so far.
