Info IT

Kathmandu, Jan 18: Vice-President Nanda Bahadur Pun has said the State is obliged to provide information to the public. And informed citizenry is civilized citizenry, he added.
Addressing a programme organized by the National Information Commission to release its significant orders
and verdicts on information disclosure, he said corruption-free society can be imagined when the citizens get the information of their and public importance from the public agencies.
According to him, information is the enlightenment and peoples access to information help curb untoward activities.
Similarly, Chairman of the Legislature-Parliament Development Committee, Rabindra Adhikari, said right to information was imperative to empower citizen. It is the responsibility of the State to disclose information from time to time.
Right to information is the human rights, so information of public importance must not be hidden, said Chief Information Commissioner Krishna Hari Baskota.
Similarly, Information Commissioners Kiran Pokhrel and Yeshoda Timilsina said information was essential to hold any agency and leadership transparent and accountable.
The current leadership of the Commission has so far issued 2,229 orders asking various public agencies to provide information to those seeking it. RSS
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