Sharing RTI experiences

• Closure of NDDB State Office (even though there was some dispute for transfer of dairies/Milk Unions of Jharkhand by Comfed, Patna for which NDDB has interfered for Dairy Federation in Jharkhand some years back)
• Renaming of National Information Network (NIN) to Rural Economics & Livelihood, threat for legal actions even though were received from NDDB, Anand
• Rechristening of “Executive” position to “Manager” in NDDB, Anand along with rechristening of Assistant Executive to Manager in MPCDF, Bhopal (IAS-managed)

Given under the threat of legal actions, I, ultimately sought and received information under RTI Act, 2005 from NDDB, Anand in due manner during 2008-09 after some spate of correspondences. But as per information received I also applied for Senior Manager (SAS) position in NDDB, Anand in 2010 as per an advertisement for vacancy in the Times of India newspaper, the reply to which there was closure of NDDB State offices at Lucknow and Patna and thereafter, no interest was shown for re-instated position in NDDB, Anand.

After creation of states of Chattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttrakhand, NDDB has sought applications for NDDB State Offices during 1999-2000. These state offices had been opened in the locations of the states with dairy cooperative federations with misnomer “state” term. During 2008-09,  Lucknow state office was opened after closing of Bhopal and Kanpur state offices, the same was also closed during 2010-11 along with Patna State Office. NIN was renamed to SAS after IDR and REL. The above two facts also qualify for information under RTI Act, 2005.