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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTI bill on hold, changes sneak in

RTI bill on hold, changes sneak in

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published Published on Jul 30, 2018   modified Modified on Jul 30, 2018
-The Telegraph

New Delhi: Forced to defer introduction of the Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2018, in the face of stiff opposition in Parliament and outside, the Narendra Modi government appears to have brought it into effect without parliamentary approval through an advertisement.

On July 26, the department of personnel, public grievances & pensions issued an advertisement for appointment of information commissioners in the Central Information Commission (CIC) that said the "salary, allowances and other terms and conditions of service of the ICs shall be as may be specified at the time of appointment of the selected candidate/s''.

Under the existing law, the salary, allowances and other terms and conditions of service for the chief information commissioner and information commissioners are all clearly specified. Sub-section (5) of Section 13 of the RTI Act, 2005, provides that these shall be the same as that for the chief election commissioner and election commissioners respectively.

The amendment bill, listed for introduction in the Rajya Sabha on July 19, ran into opposition precisely because it sought to change this and empower the Centre to decide the tenure, salary and allowances of information commissioners at the CIC and in the state information commissions through rules.

The bill was deferred indefinitely after the Opposition threw its weight behind transparency advocates opposing the changes on the ground that these are intended to weaken the edifice on which RTI stands.

Venkatesh Nayak, coordinator of the Access to Information Programme at the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, told The Telegraph "the government seems to have taken it for granted that Parliament will approve the amendments when the reality is that the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha has demanded that it be referred to a select committee".

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The Telegraph, 30 July, 2018, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/rti-bill-on-hold-changes-sneak-in-248628?ref=india-ft-stry


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