Enthused by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's reported missive to the chief ministers of the Congress-ruled states to adopt the `Bihar model' for RTI call centres, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar asserted that Bihar was gradually becoming `role model' for the states because of his government's firm resolve to ensure `good governance'.
"I express my gratitude for the acknowledgement of the system adopted by us to make information accessible to the poor and illiterate," Kumar told reporters on the sidelines of his favourite `janata darbar programme' when his attention was drawn to reported recent missive of Sonia Gandhi to her party's chief ministers.
Striking a non-partisan approach to governance, the UPA chief has called upon Congress chief ministers to adopt the model of an RTI call centre run by Bihar's NDA government to make information more accessible to the poor and illiterate.
The chief minister revealed that several states had approached the Bihar government seeking to know the system adopted by it to reach information under the Rights to Information Act.
`In fact, we have opened up a jankari kendra (information centre) to give information to the officials of other states about the system we adopted here," Kumar said.
Chief Minister said not only in the RTI, but also his initiatives for raising special auxiliary police (SAP) for tackling law and order following dearth of required central forces, was earlier appreciated by the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil.
Source: Press Trust Of India 12/Aug/2008
