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‘Only 10 per cent of corruption is controlled’
Bangalore, Oct 10, DH News Service:
Continuing his tirade against the State government for not giving power to sue the corrupt officials, Lokayukta Justice N Santosh Hegde said only 10 per cent of corruption has been controlled so far in absence of sufficient powers.
Justice Hegde was addressing a gathering at a discussion ‘RTI- where do we stand?’ on Saturday. The programme was organised by the Common Wealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) at Shikshakara Sadana.
The Lokayukta said RTI was considered an effective tool to counter corruption but there are reports that officials refuse to give the information required.
Justice Hegde said the cases are piling up with the government denying him power to take the cases to the court. He said, 18,250 cases of corruption are yet to reach the court of law. The Lokayukta informed the audience that in the recent months, 350 cases of corruption were exposed by the Lokayukta police but ironically none of these cases go for trial and many corrupt officials got promotion in place of their dismissal from the department. The Lokayukta has just nine judges hearing cases as opposed to the necessary 16.“The message going to the public is that no one can harm corrupt people,” he said.
Chief information commissioner of Karnataka KK Mishra said the central government constituted two committees- RAGA and NCPI, to submit a detailed report on the RTI. The committees recommended that each department should have a nodal officer designated for RTI.
It suggested that the public information officers should give information in time and they be given proper training on the RTI.
I am really very sorry that Your Report on this CHRI Programme is Totally Wrong to the extent of the Surveyes Conducted . This has been mentioned as Two Committees . There was No committee Appointed to by Central Govt For Study the Functioning of RTI .
However The Central govt through their Nodal Agency DoPT gave an tender to Conduct a Survey to an Foreign firm PRICE WATER Coopers Who had no knowledge of RTI or FOI (as in US of A)
As Protest and As well as to prove our Ability Several RTI activists Under the Banner of RAAG meaning RTI Acountability & assement GRoup Conducted another Survey on our own Part in 10 States . Incidentally I was the Karnatka State Co-ordinator for that Survey by RAAG .
It is Not NCPI but NCPRI Meaining National Campaign for peoples Right To information a National Body of Activists Who were Instrumental in Ushering in RTI through UPA Govt Led By Ms Sonia Gandhi . We Have Not Suggested Any Thing As Depicted in your Report , May I request the Ditor To Note this and Inform the Concerned Reporter to Do some Home work . At this Juncture RTI training is needed for Reporters in Media Also
By: B S GANESH. BANGALORE
On: 11 Oct 2009 08:20 am
In fact wvery sensible citizen has to agree and support Justice Santhosh Hegde in his efforts to ensure corruption-free good governance in the country in general and Karnataka in particular. I can not understand why government hesitates to give the necessary powers to Lokayuta, when corruption-free good governance is aldso a fundamental right of every citizen. Perhaps politicians are themselves corrupt and some are criminals also they want their tribe to grow and enjoy. There is mass protest and PIL in the Supreme Court and get support from World Bank Human Rights etc to change the attitude of politicians. Prior to indeopendence officials were hesitating to accept bribe and now accepting and giving bribe has become a routine. In fact BRIBE CULTURE has become a practice during the regime of Indira Gandhi saying " CORRUPTION IS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON " and encouraged bribes during her dictatorial rule. B S GANESH. BANGALORE
RTI. Information requested from the Mahadevpura subregistrar as to how 6.5 acres was registered for 10.5 acres overnight using two fake deeds in June 2006 for a S.No.5 at Whitefield in squatting case by Unitech Ltd on property worth Rs.150 crores has yielded no outcome, and we all know why.
