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Guv calls for rethink on RTI Act
Guv calls for rethink on RTI Act. Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Governor E S L Narasimhan on Monday said that there was a need to relook into the Right to Information (RTI) Act to make it more effective and to improve efficiency of bureaucracy.
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Governor E S L Narasimhan on Monday said that there was a need to relook into the Right to Information (RTI) Act to make it more effective and to improve efficiency of bureaucracy.
Addressing a function organised on the occasion of the inauguration of 90th special foundation course for civil service officers and central service officers at Dr Marri Channa Reddy Human Resource Development Institute here, Narasimhan said RTI Act was intended for societal good. “You have human rights activists.
You are raising questions over what society is being deprived of as in what it was entitled to. But today sometimes unfortunately the same RTI is used for settling individual scores. Can you afford it? The RTI is extremely useful if it is used in the fashion in which it is intended to be used which makes you become answerable, accountable and work is audited.
I think, we need to have a re-look of the RTI itself and see how it can be refashioned to make it more effective and improve the efficiency of bureaucracy or the governance system itself,” the Governor said.
In the wake of huge media, civil society and social media presence, Narasimhan told the trainee officers that everything was under the scrutiny and there was nothing called the private life. He urged the trainee officers to stand by their conviction and core values.
Narasimhan said the younger officers should be field officers but not desk officers. ”Do not get into habit of computers. The problems that happening is today is we have substituted our field experience with the computer experience.
If you do not go to the field you don’t really know what is really happening. Do not go by the statistics. You must have courage to confirm that the statistics is correct on the ground, he added” On the education, the governor said there was mismatch of skills that was being imparted by the universities and what was required by the industries.
He further said college had become business and education had become commerce.“Sooner or later there will be revolution on this,” added. Dr MCRHRD Director General Vinod K Agarwal said a total of 141 trainees officers including 40 women from various services would be given foundation course for 14 weeks starting from Monday.
