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…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR – Despite the fact that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and especially provincial metropolis Peshawar is worse affected due to the prevailing law and order situations over the last one decade but even then the steps taken by the government for…
PRESS RELEASE Representatives of NGOs strongly opposed the proposed amendments to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Right to Information Ordinance 2013 through which the provincial assembly has been exempted from accessing to basic information. Addressing a news conference at Peshawar Press Club, the…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The much trumpeted Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Right to Information (RTI) law, 2013 still has a bumpy way to go before it makes it into the statutory book. After the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf drafted the law, it was promulgated as…
PRESS RELEASE A study conducted by the Center for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA), Peshawar on the current education budget for Peshawar district has suggested changes in the overall mechanism of allocation of funds. Financial years 2009-2010 to 2012-2013 were…
PRESS RELEASE Participants at a training workshop on “Budget Advocacy and Accountability” have stressed the need for disclosure of budget document and other financial information to general public through various means, which is now essential after promulgation of Right to…
PRESS RELEASE Wednesday, September 04, 2013 – Peshawar—Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Secretary Information and Public Relations Azmat Hanif Orakzai has said that access to information was the due right of every human being and the KP Right to Information Ordinance (RTIO) will…