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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | PMO Restricts MeitY From Revealing How PM CARES Got 'gov.in' Domain Name -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

PMO Restricts MeitY From Revealing How PM CARES Got 'gov.in' Domain Name -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

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published Published on Jul 8, 2021   modified Modified on Jul 9, 2021

-TheWire.in

With the Prime Minister's Office insisting that the Fund is not a public authority, an application had sought information about how it received a domain name that was exclusively restricted to government websites.

New Delhi: The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) recently restrained the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) from disclosing in response to an application filed under the Right to Information Act (RTI) as to how the PM CARES Fund, set up at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, was granted the gov.in domain despite not being a public authority.

Recently, central information commissioner Vanaja J. Sarna recorded in her order that in response to a second appeal filed before the Commission by an appellant, Kavya Pahwa, the CPIO of MeitY’s RTI division, Swarup Dutta, submitted during the hearing that the subject matter of the RTI query or appeal was regarding allocation of the gov.in domain name to the PM CARES Fund.

Dutta further submitted that as per the information received from the deemed PIO and custodian of the information i.e NIC Web Technology Division, the information requested for in the RTI query of the appellant falls under the category of third party information and accordingly a notice was sent to the PMO.

PMO told MeitY to not disclose any information

However, the CPIO said, the PMO, through a letter dated August 5, 2020, restrained the ministry from revealing any information on the subject. It wrote: “PM Cares Fund is not a public authority under the ambit of Sec 2(h) of the RTI Act and therefore M/o Electronics and Information Technology may not disclose any information in respect of PM Cares Fund.” Following this letter, which was also conveyed to the appellant by the National Informatics Centre, the RTI application was disposed of online on August 14, 2020.

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TheWire.in, 8 July, 2021, https://thewire.in/government/pmo-meity-pm-cares-domain-name-public-authority-rti


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