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B'lore gets India's 1st 'RTI bank'
Published on Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 20:57, Updated at Wed, Jun 06, 2007 in Nation section
Tags: Rti, Right To Information , Bangalore
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Bangalore: H D Ramakrishna Gowda wants to know when the flyover being constructed in the vicinity of his house will get ready.
Powered by the Right to Information, Gowda, however, does not go to the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike for the information.
”The problem if you go to the BMP is that you can't even enter the campus. There’s a lot of security. People we need will not be there and officials make us run from pillar to post,” says Gowda.
Instead, Gowda approaches Veeresh Belur. Belur is putting together a library of documents collected by various NGOs under RTI to make life easier for the Bangaloreans. He calls it the RTI Bank.
“When information is collected and shared, it's optimally used. People need not approach the public authorities for the same information again. It amounts to duplication,” says Belur.
While documents from the BMP are the first to be put together in this RTI bank, Belur has also started web-based discussion groups to network NGOs for this initiative.
In case of irregularities, a complaint is filed with the Lokayukta.
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