{"id":8744,"date":"2024-06-09T22:28:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T18:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=8744"},"modified":"2024-06-09T22:28:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T18:58:01","slug":"cic-for-continuity-of-providing-information-spontaneously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=8744","title":{"rendered":"CIC for continuity of providing information spontaneously"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"headline_content_block post_template-0\">\n<div class=\"headline_section mb-2\">\n<h4 class=\"font-weight-bold\">Staff correspondent:<br \/>\nChief Information Commissioner (CIC) Dr Abdul Malek today emphasized on the continuity of spontaneous release of information to build \u2018Smart Bangladesh\u2019.\u201cThere is no alternative to ensuring free flow of information at this juncture for the country\u2019s transition from \u2018Digital Bangladesh\u2019 to \u2018Smart Bangladesh\u2019. All offices should continue releasing information from their own initiative through notice boards, billboards and annual reports,\u201d he said.The CIC said this at the inaugural ceremony of a workshop on &#8220;Right to Information Act, 2009&#8243; at the Information Commission office in the city, according to a press release.A total of 60 senior journalists of print and electronic media from Dhaka district attended the workshop.Noting that no authority will be exempted from the obligation of disclosing information in future, Malek said, \u201c&#8221;Let us not forget the slogan, &#8216;If the people want information, the administration is obliged to give it&#8217;.&#8221; A total of 140 countries in the world have RTI laws, he said, adding that Bangladesh ranks 27th among them in terms of availability of information, disposing of complaints, spontaneous release of information, updating information on websites and other matters. Information commissioners Shahidul Alam and Masuda Bhatti also spoke on the occasion. Dhaka Journal Editor-in-Chief Syed Ishtiaq Reza and MRDI Executive Director Hasibur Rahman conducted sessions at the workshop as resource persons.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff correspondent: Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) Dr Abdul Malek today emphasized on the continuity of spontaneous release of information to build \u2018Smart Bangladesh\u2019.\u201cThere is no alternative to ensuring free flow of information at this juncture for the country\u2019s transition from \u2018Digital Bangladesh\u2019 to \u2018Smart Bangladesh\u2019. All offices should continue releasing information from their own initiative through notice boards, billboards and annual reports,\u201d he said.The CIC said this at the inaugural ceremony of a workshop on &#8220;Right to Information Act, 2009&#8243; at the Information Commission office in the city, according to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_5980380192037842_108390337697511":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8746,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions\/8746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}