News and Views on RTI and Governance

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Reservation War Formula For Victory Without Victim: The Sentinel Dated 13 december, 2007: By R.S.
Mooshahary, Assam CIC
The demand for ST status by the Adivasis, Tai Ahoms, Chutias, Muttocks, Morans, and Koch-Rasbongshis has opened up a can of
worms. One can fathom the complexity of the issue from the fact that despite the support of successive ….

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Education and Employment Products without Prospects: The Sentinel Dated 29 November, 2007: By R.S.
Mooshahary, Assam CIC
The Assam labour minister informed the State Assembly in its last session that there were
10,58,247 educated unemployed registered with the employment exchanges in the State….

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Poverty and Hunger The Grameen Ways of Alleviation: The Sentinel Dated 15 November , 2007: By R.S.
Mooshahary, Assam CIC
No one is poor by choice or design. Poverty is an inherited curse. Of course, some people become poor through profligacy, stupidity or greed….

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Destiny or Free Will: The Journey is Thrilling: The Sentinel Dated 1 November , 2007: By R.S.
Mooshahary, Assam CIC
We come to this world without our asking for it; we neither know how long we will be around here.From here when
the time comes to go, we do not know where we are going…

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Ban the Bandh and Save the State: The Sentinel Dated 18 October , 2007: By R.S.
Mooshahary, Assam CIC
The other day the Deputy Commissioner of a lower Assam district tells me that in his district the bandh call
is not always for a public issue but equally for internecine fights…

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History and Violence: Challenges and Solutions: The Sentinel Dated 4 October , 2007: By R.S.
Mooshahary, Assam CIC
A few days back, a young army officer next to my seat aboard a flight got talking to me as he was
slyly glancing at the article I was preparing on the internal security issues on my laptop (which he ought not to have)…

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Religion and Reason: The Conflict in Convergence: The Sentinel Dated 20 September, 2007: By R.S.
Mooshahary, Assam CIC
THREE recent news concerning three main religions were characteristic instances of religious irrationality.
The first was the attack on Taslima Nasreen at Hyderabad by a group of self-proclaimed upholder of Islamic principles…

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Is Guwahati a Sinking City ?: The Sentinel Dated 6 September, 2007: By R.S.
Mooshahary, Assam CIC
WITH THE MIGHTY Brahmaputra flowing alongside and the blue hills dotting the outline, the
rivulets and hillocks interspersing within, Guwahati is a naturally beautiful and elegant city…

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Assam Police Act: Concept, Content and Intent: The Sentinel Dated 23 August, 2007: By R.S.
Mooshahary, Assam CIC
THE SUPREME COURT in its judgment in Prakash Singh & Others vs Union of India, on September 26,
2006, mandated the governments at the Centre and the States to carry out police reforms through legislation by
incorporating certain specific provisions therein…

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Of Trust Deficit in Governance: The Sentinel Dated 9 August, 2007: By R.S.
Mooshahary, Assam CIC
I N THE COURSE OF my frequent meetings
with people, I usually try to ascertain their reaction to issues,
which have a bearing on their day-to-day lives…

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Ram Revisited: Whither Accountability?: The Sentinel Dated 26 July, 2007: By R.S.
Mooshahary, Assam CIC
A few days before police killed PC Ram on July 11, a prominent city-based journalist told me that if Ram were alive they would kill him…

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Superstition and Change: The Conflict Within: The Sentinel Dated 12 July, 2007: By R.S.
Mooshahary, Assam CIC
Superstition is an unchanging evil in a time of change. Throughout history, human beings have suffered much because of it and …

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The Assamese People:
Beauty in Heterogeneity: The Sentinel Dated 28 June, 2007: By R.S.
Mooshahary, Assam CIC
Clause 6 of the Assam Accord reads, �Constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards, as may be appropriate …

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Bangladeshi Migrants: The Problem beyond Frontiers: The Sentinel Dated 17 June, 2007: By R.S.
Mooshahary, Assam CIC
The Bangladeshi migrants in India have long been a contentious and
controversial issue not only because they are here in droves but also
because we have failed so far to identify, …

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Students for Social Resurgence: The Sentinel, Dated 17th May, 2007: By R.S. Mooshahary, Assam CIC
Students can play the primordial role in social transformation
through spread of literacy and awareness across the State by virtue …

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Hot Spots of an Unquiet Border: The Sentinel, Dated 31st May, 2007: By R.S. Mooshahary, Assam CIC
Bangladesh is a greater threat to India – not in military strength
but in view of its demographic predilection for religious …

› The Way to Durable Peace: The Sentinel Dated 15 March, 2007: By R.S. Mooshahary, Assam CIC
Assam has been in the intermittent throes of terrorist violence since long with fear psychosis gripping the populace across the length and breath …

› Corruption and Right to Information: The Sentinel Dated 25 January, 2007: By R.S. Mooshahary, Assam CIC
Sometime back, a Union minister, while addressing a meeting in Shillong, said that
the northeastern States received Rs 15,000 crore …

› Transparency Review: Dated 26 October, 2006: By R.S. Mooshahary, Assam CIC
The file noting issue – whether its discloser under the RTI Act 2005 is within the
legal mischief of the Act –

› Access to Information: By Dr. B.K. Gohain, Assam IC
Do you want to know how much money was spent on a road constructed in your
neighbourhood, what were –

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Right To Information Act, 2005-What the Public Needs to Know: The Sentinel
Dated 01 October, 2006: By R.S. Mooshahary, Assam CIC
The Right to Information Act is an empowering legislation aimed at creating
a regime of good governance –

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Right To Information Act and Public Responsibility: Asomiya Pratidin
Dated 19 October, 2006: By R.S. Mooshahary, Assam CIC
The Right to Information Act came to effect
from 12 October, 2005. This Act will empower the general public …. making the administration transperent, …