More than 1,500 have signed this FOI petition launched by media groups and allied organisations in business and labor and academe and activist circles. We need a law that will give life to the right of citizens to request and be given access to government information beyond what government chooses to disclose proactively. An FOI law responds to this by clarifying the scope of and exceptions to available information, by providing the definite procedure for requesting and being given access to information, and by imposing administrative or criminal liability for the violation of a citizens right to information.
Posted on: Fri, 16 May 2014 00:48:06 +0000