Wednesday, September 15, 2010

'RTI activist Amit Jethva is martyr': Law Minister of India

New Delhi: Calling Right To Information (RTI) activists who have been killed mar tyrs,law minister Veerapp a Moily on Monday said an act meant to protect whistleblowers will be tabled in the winter session of Parliament beginning mid-November.

The RTI activists like Amit Jethava and Satish Shetty are martyrs.I salute them, Moily said while inaugurating a two-day conference on RTI organized by the Central Information Commission.

Social activist Satish Shetty,who had blown the whistle on a series of land scams in and around Talegaon,Lonavala and Pimpri-Chinchwad near Pune,was murdered near his residence in January.Amit Jethava was killed near the Gujarat HC in Ahmedabad in July after he raised his voice against illegal mining in the Gir forests area.These RTI activists have contributed a lot to the country, Moily said.

2 comments:

  1. Dear All,

    I hope the sacrifice made by dear Amit Jethava will not go in vain and the fight to protect Gir will not die. Let us all Indians get together and show the corrupt politicians, police men and the hooligans that this sacrifice and fight to protect nature will not end here. These people for the sake of money are ruining our mother nature. Let us all fight to let them all know that India is moving ahead on the path of progress and there is no place for corruption anymore.

    I would request that our dear PM intervene in such serious cases and pass laws to protect people who fight against corruption. And now that Mr. Jethava is no longer with us, this fight to prevent illegal mining should top in the 'Important Issues' in PM's list of things to do.

    Jai Hind.

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  2. A private company is setting up power plant in Chhara village and planning to lift Narmada Water for it from narmada pipeline project for kodinar and veraval. you must do somt thing

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