Right for Information awareness programm Varanasi
From the 1st to the 15th July 2006 a awareness program for the latest law in India takes place India wide. VARUN, Asha for education and others do organise the Varanasi and Chandauli event.
India is a democracy and this new law allows all Indian citizens to obtain transparent information on any subjects related to them. Because many poor people do not know about this law which was introduced India wide on March 1st, this awareness program has been initiated. For 15 days, interested people are informed on the scale and potentials of this law. Further support is given to these people for applying requests on any subject.
Exemplarily, we could witness the following situation on our visit on the spot on July 7th 2006:
One man’s father died in 2002, and in 2006 somebody emptied this dead mans banc account with the aid of falsified identity documents. The son, as a beneficiary, now wants to claim the banc and wants access records. Many illiterate people neither know about their rights, nor do they know how to claim. The above mentioned program helps here.
- Picture from the workshop held in Varanasi
On this occasion, it was an honour to meet one of the three founder of the world wide organsation Asha for education (www.ashanet.org) Mr. Sandeep Pandey. Vallabh, the Asha north india coordinator was also there and Anjani Kumar Singh from Varun.
- Picture while talking to Sandeep
Varanasi, 7. Juli 2006, Andi und Pasci Fischer