If accepted,union minister of state for personnel public grievances and pensions V. Narayanasamy’s definition " Substantial funding means above 51 per cent’ "private sharks will grab
the entire country in no time. All the Build Operate Transfer (BOT), Public
Private Partnership (PPP) projects, Non Government Organisations (NGO) getting
crores of rupees as a fund or aid in kind Co Operative societies, will automatically
come out of the preview of RTI act.
There are 33.50 lakh NGO’s and
around 6.5 lakh cooperative societies working since last decades for welfare of
society in India. That
means there are around 40 lakh organisation working for 120 crore population, i.e.
there is one such organisation per 300 people. If we assume there are only 10
members in such organisations i.e. there is one person per 30 people working
for welfare of society since last many decades. Major Job of these organisations
is to take government policies, schemes to common person. However what we see
the ground reality is, status of the common person is same as was several
decades back. Each year government spends crores and crores rupees for welfare
of common person , then where did all this money go?. Interesting part of
this is , most of all these are directly or indirectly owned or controlled by
political entities.
There are projects like BOT, PPP
where government’s major stake is involved in form of direct or indirect
funding. In addition as the government has already allowed Foreign Direct Investment
(FDI). We have to see the implications of definition of substantial funding
keeping in the mind above mentioned factors .
I wonder how anybody can say that “I
have taken your rupee but as my stakes are high, I don’t owe any responsibility
towards your rupee because it is not substantial funding”.?. Definition of
substantial funding can not be and should not be in terms percentage.
