Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, May 4: MLA Ramnagar, Ranbir Singh Pathania, while addressing an interactive session with literature-lovers, intellectuals and educationists at Ramnagar, underscored the need for revamping and revisiting J&K RTI Act so as to make it sensitive to the exigencies of the hour and make it more workable and practical.
He informed the gathering that during the last Monsoon session of Legislative Assembly, his Private Members’ Amendment Bill regarding RTI Act, had received accolades and support from legislators and leaders cutting across party lines, and ultimately, State Government had also admitted the Bill for discussion.
“The amendment pivoted around enabling the information seekers to seek online information from PIOs/APIOs while paying fees through net banking, credit/debit cards etc and for better monitoring and streamlining of the RTI law”, he said.
Pathania said that the amendment markedly sought to put brakes on the frivolous information seekers who file repeated, unwanted RTI applications just with a view to harassing and blackmailing officers and thereby putting clogs in the wheels of development and good governance. It sought to give teeth to Information Commission to ‘blacklist’ unscrupulous information-seekers and deter them from misusing the ‘landmark law’.
Later, the MLA conducted a comprehensive tour of the area of Ramnagar in order to take a first-hand review of the pace and quality of various developmental works being carried out in the area. Pathania called upon the line departments as well as agencies to ensure time bound and qualitative completion of work on various developmental works in the area of Ramnagar.
In another impressive function organized at PWD Rest House, Ramnagar, Pathania distributed gas cylinders under Ujjawala Yojana to as many as 200 beneficiaries.
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