150 players to feature in 2nd RTI Men & Women Table Tennis Championship 2019
The second edition of the Right to Information, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Table Tennis Men and Women Championship will be commencing from September 26(today), here at Qayyum Sports Complex, Peshawar.
The second edition of the Right to Information, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Table Tennis Men and Women Championship will be commencing from September 26(today), here at Qayyum Sports Complex, Peshawar.
Commissioner Right to Information Riaz Khan Daudzai said the aim and objective of the championship is to give awareness among the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and rest of Pakistan about Right to Information. He further said that there are millions of people, specially poor, who did not know much about this how they could have an access to various departments through Right to Information cell.
He said last year they held this championship at Peshawar district level but this time they have widen up the pool and more than 150 players including 50 female would be part of the Championship. He said the players would participate in Boys Singles and Double and Girls Singles and Doubles. The first two rounds of the Championship would be organized on knock-out basis while the rest of the Championship would be organized on single league basis.
Riaz said there are 115 countries of the world where Right to Information Department has been functioning to enable common man to have access to any information about any public and private departments.
He said the main objective is to provide first hand information to players to know how they can access to various departments through Right to Information law. He said the primary responsibility of the Commission is to ensure that the request of the citizens are processed in time by the public bodies, adding, “If the citizens file any complaint against a public body, the Commission after hearing the citizen and the public body takes a decision.”
The role of RTI is to give information about the system which is running by the government to have transparency in the system, he said. Riaz further added, Right to Information has given the mandates in 2013 for timely responses to citizen requests for government information. Right to Information also empowers citizens to officially inspect any Government work or to take the sample of material used in any work.
First appeal can also be filed online, he said, adding, “An applicant who desires to obtain any information under the RTI act can make a request through the Web Portal to the Ministries, Departments of Government.” Riaz Daudzai disclosed that they have so far entertained 14000 application who were provided Right to Information about public bodies.
He said actually the World Right to Information Day falling on September 28 around the world, the final of the Championship would also be organized on the same day with Minister for Information Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shoukat Yousafzai will grace the occasion as chief guest.
He said an awareness walk about Right to Information would also be organized with people from different walk of life including women, children and players would participate.
