BOMDILA, Mar 17: Terming Right to Information as a paradigm shift, a game changer and a sunshine act, Chief Information Commissioner Dr. Joram Begi called for informed citizenry and empowerment of people.

In the daylong awareness campaign held today at DC’s conference hall, Dr. Begi called for transparency and accountability.

Dwelling at length on the RTI Act 2005, the Chief Information Commissioner acknowledged that the Public Information Officers (PIO) do face certain hurdles and hiccups, but that should not be a deterrent. ‘The PIOs should be and need to be pro-active’ he said.

He also informed of the State Food Commission which is being looked after by the SIC where the issues of National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013, Mid Day Meal (MDM) and Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP) are being dealt with.

Information Commissioners AK Techi and Matheim Linggi dealt on guide to information seekers and Role of Public Information Officers respectively while Information Commissioner Nanom Jamoh elaborated on the National Food Security Act 2013.

The DF&CSO, DDSE and DD ICDS also made power point presentations on NFSA, MDM and SNP respectively.

In the interactive session that followed, social workers, representatives of the various NGOs, public and PRI leaders and HoDs actively deliberated on the various aspects of RTI and the issues related with NFSA 2013 which led the Chief Information Commissioner to commit that a high level meeting of the Food & Civil Supplies officers would be convened soon after completion of the awareness campaigns in the state.

Summing up the day’s proceedings, Deputy Commissioner Sonal Swaroop complementing the efforts of the Information Commission opined that such endeavours would go a long way in bringing about the desired change and that, transparency and accountability would be the game changers. The DC also assured the State Food Commission members to expedite the Aadhar card seeding in the district.

Among others, the awareness programme was attended by Superintendent of Police PN Khrimey, Ex-Minister Tabor Jamoh, Ex-MLA Rinchin Kharu, public leaders, PRI members, social workers, NGOs, administrative officers and HoDs of the district. DIPRO

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Kenter Joya Riba

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