Whereas the post of Central Information Commissioner [CIC] is left vacant for Shri Wajahat Habibullah is proposed to be transferred to at Chief Information Commissioner at Jammu & Kashmir; And whereas the PM is among the appointing authority of [CIC] it is expected that they will conform to Constitutional and Statutory mandate; And whereas it hardly requires any emphasize that the present practice of Appointments of Information Commissioners or Chief Information Commissioners doesn’t conform to Constitutional mandate of Article 14 & Article 16 and decisions are taken in closed chambers; In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens has minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. Fortunately, with the UPA Govt introducing the landmark RTI Act in 2005 people of India have become the active partners of the govt. ...