10 year old 's RTI posers

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When some simple questions came to the mind of Aishwarya Parashar, a class VI student of the City Montessori School, Lucknow, she did not let them languish unasked. She went seeking answers through the Right to Information Act (RTI).
Aishwarya's inquisitivsness and willingness to pursue the source of information has yielded, till date, the establishment of a public library on the site of a garbage dump and the nation being better enlightened about the Father of Nation, Mahatma Gandhi.
She had, so far, filed three RTIs with the Prime Minister's Office. The first one was about who gave the order for Printing Mahatma Gandhi's image on currency notes. The reply was that it was in 1993 following a meeting of the RBI.
The Second one was about who conferred the title of Father of Nation on Mahatma Gandhi. The reply was that there are no specific documents on the information sought.
After got an unsatisfactory answer to on the abovesaid issue, she raised the third one about who had declared Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary on October 2 as also Republic Day and Independence Day as National Holidays. To her surprise, as well as to the pubic, she got reply dated 17th May that such orders were never issued.

Source: The Hindu dt. 25.05.12 Article by Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

V.Senthilnathan