Bihar becoming 8216;role model8217; for states: Nitish

Striking a nonpartisan approach to governance, the UPA chief has called upon Congress chief ministers to adopt the model of an RTI call centre run by Bihar8217;s NDA government to make information more accessible to the poor and illiterate people.

The chief minister revealed that several states had approached the Bihar government seeking to know the system adopted by it to reach information under the Rights To Information Act.

8220;In fact, we have opened up a 8216;jankari kendra8217; information centre to give informations to the officials of other states about the system we adopted here,8221; Kumar said.

Chief Minister said not only in the RTI, but also his initiatives for raising special auxiliary police SAP for tackling law and order following dearth of required central forces, was earlier appreciated by the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil.

Several other states had also adopted the new reservation policy implemented by the NDA government, Kumar said adding other states were implementing the reservation of 50 per cent seats for women in urban and local bodies on the line of Bihar.