RTI activists have proposed the following eminent persons who are willing to serve as information commissioners without taking salary, allowances or even government bungalow. Their credentials to sit in judgment on RTI appeals are formidable.
Jagdeep Chokkar and Trilochan Sastry are IIM professors who fought for the electoral reform that makes candidates declare their assets and criminal antecedents. Shailesh Gandhi, an engineer from IIT Bombay, is the convener of "national campaign for people's right to information" spearheading the RTI movement. H Sudarshan, a doctor who was awarded Padma Shree for his work in rural areas, has been vigilance director with Karnataka's Lokayukta (ombudsman).
Since it is important to have non-biased and competent people to enforce the RTI Act bureaucrats should never be appointed as information commissioners. And when there are such eminent people such as have been suggested by the activists- to take up the job with NO cost to the exchequer it can be only ulterior motives of the people in government that can prevent them from being appointed.
Maj (Retd) P M Ravindran
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