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RTI Activists Exposed Violation of Guidelines in “Indian Rupee Symbol” Design Competition

RTI Activist exposed : Mismanagement and violation of guidelines in “Indian Rupee Symbol” design competition.

According to RTI Documents :

  1. Non-eligible candidate was shortlisted in top five finalists. As candidate had submitted four designs.
  2. One finalist was in contact with Finance Ministry and RBI prior to competition.
  3. Design concept or brief was not put in front of jury along with Indian Rupee symbol design.
  4. No marks or grades were allotted to selected (2644) candidates design entries, in the process of shortlisting top five finalist design entries.
  5. Jury had spends less than 20 seconds on each design entries to analyze it .
  6. Three jury member were absent in two days long meeting dated 29th Sept. and 30th Sept. 2009.
  7. One jury member from Ministry of Culture was absent on the day of final presentation.
  8. All seven jury member had never meet in this whole selection process in any given time.
  9. No records are available with Finance Ministry which could indicated, how many total design entries Finance Ministry had received ?
  10. Advertisement was only published in English language.

Hindustan Times Hindi- Lucknow 18 March, 2010

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Hindustan Times Hindi- Lucknow 19 March, 2010

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