Indian Rupee Symbol Scam Exposed By RTI Activists
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Indian Rupee Symbol Scam Exposed By RTI Activists
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RTI Activist exposed Indian Rupee Symbol Scam : Mismanagement and violation of guidelines at every step in “Indian Rupee Symbol” design competition.
According to RTI Documents :
- Non-eligible [Proof] candidate [son of DMK party leader] declared as winner.
- One of the finalist Nondita Correa father Charles Correa sent recommendation letter to Prime Minister Office prior to competition.
- Design concept or brief was not put in front of jury along with Indian Rupee symbol design. RTI - Q. 7
- No marks or grades were allotted to selected (2644) candidates design entries, in the process of shortlisting top five finalist design entries.RTI - Q. 16 D
- Jury had spends less than 20 seconds on each design entries to analyze it . Hindustan Times
- Three jury member were absent in two days long meeting dated 29th Sept. and 30th Sept. 2009.RTI Q. 3
- One jury member from Ministry of Culture was absent on the day of final presentation. RTI Q. 4
- All seven jury member had never meet in this whole selection process in any given time.
- No records are available with Finance Ministry which could indicated, how many total design entries Finance Ministry had received ?RTI Q. 5
- Advertisement was only published in English language. RTI Q. 7
Hindustan Times Hindi- Lucknow 18 March, 2010
© Hindustan Daily - Lucknow
Hindustan Times Hindi- Lucknow 19 March, 2010
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