Shipping Corpn follows RTI, but National Library lags behind

Kolkata Newsline – New Delhi,India Reports WHILE a staff crunch has come in the way of implementing the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005 in the country’s oldest and biggest library, the National Library, Kolkata, the Act is already in place at the regional office of the Shipping Corporation of India.

All government offices and institutes were supposed to have implemented the Act by October 12. ‘‘We just have the bare minimum staff to run the daily affairs of the library. The implementation of the RTI Act requires a lot of effort in preparing the manuals and documenting the data of many years. Where is the staff strenghth for all this work?’’ asked one of them.