Hi Manoj, > 'Grahak Raja Jaha Ho' is ready to take your issue > seriously.. I am very glad to see your support in this movement. We can come together on this issue and I am sure we will find many open minded people who want to actively involve in this mission.
> 1) To get all information about funds spend for > purchasing MS Office > Licenses during the financial year 2006-2007. > We can get this information by using Right to > Information Act 2005. To > start with we can collect the information from Pune > District. I was also thinking in the same direction. But I am not aware about how receive required information from Govt under Information Act. If you help us then we can certainly seek the details of govt expenditure on proprietory softwares. > 4) We can file a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) > asking Why Government is > spending Crores of rupees on MS Office Licenses when > Open Office is > available for free. YES.. You are right. We must knock the door of the court of law. But its a long process and will involve some level of expenditure. So somehow we will require to build the funds for this social cause. I think its more advisible to discuss this issue in the PLUG monthly meeting. Why don't you come for the PLUG meeting on 07th April 07 at 4 PM? We can have views of many PLUG members there and the I am sure our discussions will be fruitful. Thanks. regards, Anand Kulkarni 9422515760(M) --- Pramukh Pracharak - Grahak Raja Jaga Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Mr. Anand Kulkarni > > I read your post regarding Open Office in Government > Organisations. > And I fully agree with you that government should > not spend public money for > purchasing MS Office Licenses when Open Office is > available for free. > > We are running a Non Government Organisation 'Grahak > Raja Jaga Ho' working > in the field of consumer awareness & awareness about > Right to Information > Act. > > 'Grahak Raja Jaha Ho' is ready to take your issue > seriously & I find > following plan to force government organisations to > use Open Office. > 1) To get all information about funds spend for > purchasing MS Office > Licenses during the financial year 2006-2007. > We can get this information by using Right to > Information Act 2005. To > start with we can collect the information from Pune > District. > 2) We can compile a report about funds spend on MS > Office Licenses by > different Government Organisation from Pune > District. And I am sure the > figure will touch at least 1 Crore. > 3) We will get the report published in all News > Papers / News Channels. This > will help us to gather MASS support. > 4) We can file a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) > asking Why Government is > spending Crores of rupees on MS Office Licenses when > Open Office is > available for free. > > Thanks with Regards > > Manoj Ovhal > Pramukh Pracharak > "Grahak Raja Jaga Ho" > URL : http://www.grahakraja.org > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
