an ordinary citizen

Draft ordinance of the ‘Right to Information’ as it is placed in the site of Information Ministry

http://www.moi.gov.bd/RTI.doc

Daily Star in ‘by the numbers’ on Right to Information ordinance

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=28952

Real test will be in implementation of the law

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=26271

Commendable moves but do with the impediments

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=28182

Exemption to be specific to stop misuse

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=28593

Shorten exemption list

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=28134

Few words at the last moment (Prothom Alo)

http://www.prothom-alo.com/mcat.news.details.php?nid=OTE2ODA=&mid=NA==

A short note on the ordinance:

The Government has floated draft ordinance of the “Right to Information’ in the website of the mininstry of information.

To be informed about the government and non-governmental activities is a right of the citizens of a country. In Bangladesh also people are also eager to have an act/ordinance which will provide them with the power to get the information.

None of the past government took any initiative in this regard though they never ciontradict with the need of such an act.

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Dr. Akbar Ali Khan, ex Adviser of the last caretaker government cries over the fate of the freedom fighters and their children in a meet with the Reporters’ Union. He cited a report in a newspaper that the wife of a freedom fighter was collecting left over food for her children at the invitation at Bangabhavan(president house) on the last 26th March on the occassion of Independence day. He declared that he who himself was a freedom fighter will not take any food in the Bangabhaban if a single child of a freedom fighter remain unfed. (more…)