PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: On paper, the soon-to-be-enacted Right to Public Services law is bound to improve the quality of governance in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). But experts and officials of the provincial law department said the present draft needs to incorporate the names…
PRESS RELEASE The Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA) appreciated the KP government’s good governance reforms agenda, and anticipated that Right to Services Law together with Right to Information Law could bring much needed improvement in the social service delivery.…
PRESS RELEASE ISLAMABAD: Although a robust Right to Information (RTI) law has been enforced in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the provincial bureaucracy is still refusing to provide the requested information as only 18 percent requests sent to the government departments were…
PRESS RELEASE Muhammad Zahoor: Nothing can be more supportive to democracy than informed citizenry whose right to access information is legally protected. Citizens who don’t know about functions of governments can’t make informed decisions in electing their representatives. That is why right…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: Though Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) recently introduced the right to information (RTI) legislation in a step towards greater transparency, the neighbouring tribal belt still has a long way to go before any such law is put in place. Civil…
PRESS RELEASE Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA) demanded the abolishment of Article 247 of Constitution of Pakistan, as the Article awards non-representative and undemocratic status to Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), and Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA). The…
PRESS RELEASE Islamabad: It was expected that provincial right to information law, first promulgated as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information Ordinance 2013 on August 17, 2013 and later turned into an Act of provincial assembly on October 31, 2013 will usher…
PRESS RELEASE Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA) shows strong reservations on undue delay in presenting Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information (RTI) Bill for KP Governor’s assent. The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Governor promulgated KP RTI Ordinance on August 13, 2013, and just before lapsing of the…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: Despite popular perception, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) Right to Information (RTI) law is still not in place. As promised by the law, the public still has no facility to access information regarding any subject. On Monday, official sources confirmed to The…
PRESS RELEASE Participants in a seminar on “Analysis of Education and Health Budget” of district Peshawar have stressed the need for participation of local community and relevant stakeholders in the budget-making process, urging the budgetary allocation should be made as per…