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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RAW postings likely to come under RTI-Deeptimaan Tiwary

RAW postings likely to come under RTI-Deeptimaan Tiwary

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published Published on Apr 15, 2012   modified Modified on Apr 15, 2012

Appointments to India's secretive external intelligence arm, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), could come under public scrutiny, with the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) upholding an order that the administrative process of an appointment is not exempted from the RTI. 

Although the agency is likely to further challenge the order, the CIC ruling does throw open RAW's functioning and officials to RTI applications. 

Passing an order on an RTI query seeking information on appointment of RAW chief Sanjeev Tripathi, the CIC upheld an appellate authority directive that the external agency is not exempted from the Act as the administrative work in the case was carried out by the Cabinet secretariat. 

Although an appointment does not in itself impinge on its more secret functions, information about postings and designations being made public can be worrying for the RAW, whose organizational structure is a secret. 

"The order, which doesn't seem to be thought through, opens up a lot of sensitive activities to public scrutiny," a former RAW chief said. 

Filed last August by Subhash Chandra Aggarwal, the RTI application had sought replies to a number of questions related to the appointment of current chief Sanjeev Tripathi. The application was rejected by the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) last December on the ground that RAW was exempted from the ambit of the Act under Section 24(1) of the RTI Act. 

Subsequently, Aggarwal appealed with the first appellate authority at the Cabinet secretariat. When the authority failed to pass an order in stipulated time, Aggarwal approached CIC that heard the matter on February 29, 2012. The appellate authority saw merit in the plea and held: "The desired information did not relate to the exempted organization but to the manner in which the appointment was made by the competent authority and, therefore, it could not be said that the information was about the exempted organization." 

Aggarwal is now alleging deliberate delay on part of Cabinet secretariat. 

"I have still not received the information as the Cabinet secretariat has forwarded the query to a different division now," he says.

The Times of India, 15 April, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/RAW-postings-likely-to-come-under-RTI/articleshow/12668467.cms


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