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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Opposition irked over move to amend RTI act, may raise it on day 1 of monsoon session -Nidhi Sharma

Opposition irked over move to amend RTI act, may raise it on day 1 of monsoon session -Nidhi Sharma

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published Published on Jul 17, 2018   modified Modified on Jul 17, 2018
-The Economic Times

NEW DELHI: The government’s move to introduce a new bill to amend the Right to Information (RTI) Act in the monsoon session of Parliament has riled the Opposition parties and social rights activists.

Opposition MPs are planning to raise the issue on the first day of the session. The government has not put the draft amendment bill in the public domain yet. In Parliament bulletin on “government business expected to be taken up during the 15th session of the 16th Lok Sabha”, Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2018, is listed under “new bills” on number 14. Unlike other bills, the bill has only one line description: “To amend the Right to Information Act, 2005.”

Congress’ Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh said: “No pre-legislative consultative process has been followed. The amendment bill was not put in the public domain.”

Social rights activists, including RTI Act architects Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Anjali Bhardwaj, would lead a march to Parliament on the first day of the session on Wednesday. India’s first chief information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah has also lent his support to the move against amending the Act. Bhardwaj of National Campaign for Peoples’ Right to Information said: “The government has not followed its own pre-legislative consultation policy of 2014.”

Despite repeated attempts, minister of state for personnel Jitendra Singh could not be contacted.

Trinamool MP Dinesh Trivedi, who had worked extensively for putting in place RTI Act, told ET: “We do not know the contents of the bill. I would be joining the protest in my individual capacity as I feel for the cause.”

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The Economic Times, 16 July, 2018, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/opposition-irked-over-move-to-amend-rti-act-may-raise-it-on-day-1-of-monsoon-session/articleshow/650037


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