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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | No frivolous, personal-in-nature RTI queries: Central information commission

No frivolous, personal-in-nature RTI queries: Central information commission

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published Published on Dec 17, 2012   modified Modified on Dec 17, 2012
-The Times of India

LUCKNOW: In response to a query under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the the Central Information Commission (CIC), New Delhi, denied it had any 'frivolous or personal-in-nature' applications available in the records. This is against statement of chief information commissioner (CIC) Satyanand Mishra at a seminar on RTI, organized in the city recently, in which he said, people had not understood the basics of the RTI Act, and that many applications received by the central information commission (CIC) were personal in nature, adding that information should be sought in public interest. In response, RTI activist Urvashi Sharma moved the commission which denied receiving queries frivolous or personal in nature.

The applicant had sought information about all applications available in CIC, at any other office affiliated to it by way of complaints, appeals, RTI applications or by any other source, that were personal in nature. The information was also sought about the "frivolous RTIs that were filed to hog the limelight".

In response to the query, the CIC denied that it ever got any such application. The chief public information officer (CPIO) of CIC Pankaj KP Shreyaskar said "no such information in this regard is available with the commission." It contradicts the claims made time and again that 70% of the information filed under RTI seek personal information. The RTI activists expressed concern over such projections as they discourage RTI-users.

The Times of India, 17 December, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/No-frivolous-personal-in-nature-RTI-queries-Central-information-commission/articleshow/17644044.cms


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