MGSIPA holds seminar on importance of RTI Act

Bathinda, February 18

The Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration (MGSIPA), Punjab, Regional Centre Bathinda, on Tuesday organised a one-day seminar on the RTI Act here.

About 80 Public Information Officers and Assistant Public Information Officers, students and faculty of law, Punjabi University Regional Centre, Bathinda, and other local law colleges joined the programme.

The RTI experts Dr Nimmi Jindal, assistant professor and in-charge law faculity, Punjabi University Regional Centre, Bathinda, and Kashmir Lal, advocate, highlighted salient features and various provisions of the RTI Act and described it as an important tool for making the administration responsive and result oriented besides ending corruption in public life.

Jarnail Singh, Regional Project Director, MGSIPA, Bathinda, said, “The RTI Act is a most revolutionary pro-people and popular enactment in the Indian democracy which has contributed in a big way to bring about transparency, accountability and responsiveness in the government departments”. — TNS