Is Government getting a cold response on RTI best practicing write-ups?

THE government has yet again extended the last date of receiving write-ups on RTI best practices from citizens, now till July 31. The last date of submitting such a write-up, each of the 20 selected essays to fetch Rs 25,000 each, was originally fixed at June 28 and then extended till July 15, creating doubts whether...
it has received enough good copies on the subject. As BoI reported earlier, the department of personnel and training (DoPT) proposed to publish a compendium of best practices on RTI Act, being practised by public authorities. Any Indian citizen is eligible to write those pieces, and the best 20 write-ups would be selected for inclusion in the compendium. The article should capture details of the said RTI practice, including its scope, financial implications, and deployment of resources such as manpower, infrastructure, etc.
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Action and Appointments
a) Sanjiv Shankar, a 1993 batch IRS-IT officer, has been reappointed as DoPT director after he came back from US on completion of an MA programme on international development policy at University of Duke, USA.
B) Ms Sanyukta Samaddar, a 1999 batch UP cadre IAS, has been appointed as director in the department of heavy industries and public enterprises.