{"id":227163,"date":"2023-10-28T00:52:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T19:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=227163"},"modified":"2023-10-28T00:52:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T19:22:06","slug":"awareness-prog-on-rti-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/10\/28\/awareness-prog-on-rti-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness prog on RTI Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 27 Oct:<\/strong> The Arunachal Pradesh University (APU) here, in collaboration with the East Siang District Students&#8217; Union, organised an awareness programme on the Right to Information (RTI) Act on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the participants as the resource person, State Information Commissioner Gumjum Haider said that &#8220;the RTI Act is implemented not by the government, or by the court, but by the common people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It has been brought to light that many people are filing RTI complaints, but most of them are activists. The participation of common people in filing an RTI is very low,&#8221; he said, and added that &#8220;if the information is not given in the specified period, it shall be deemed to have refused the request.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Urging the students to be &#8220;vigilant and smart,&#8221; Haider said that &#8220;it is the youths and students of this city who can make the city smart in the real sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">APU Vice Chancellor Prof Tomo Riba also spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, 27 Oct: The Arunachal Pradesh University (APU) here, in collaboration with the East Siang District Students&#8217; Union, organised an awareness programme on the Right to Information (RTI) Act on Friday. Addressing the participants as the resource person, State Information Commissioner Gumjum Haider said that &#8220;the RTI Act is implemented not by the government, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-227163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}