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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Uttar Pradesh cabinet keeps Lokayukta outside RTI Act ambit

Uttar Pradesh cabinet keeps Lokayukta outside RTI Act ambit

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published Published on Aug 1, 2012   modified Modified on Aug 1, 2012
-The Times of India

LUCKNOW: The Akhilesh Yadav cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal to put the office of Lokayukta outside the RTI Act purview. The cabinet said there was a need to maintain secrecy while investigating corruption charges against officials. Since the office of the Lokayukta functions as an investigating agency, any queries about ongoing investigations can hamper probes, the government said. 

In its election manifesto, the Samajwadi Party had promised to take steps to strengthen the office of the Lokayukta if it was voted to power. But after coming to power the SP government has made several changes in the functioning of the office of the Lokayukta. First, the government increased the tenure of the Lokayukta to eight years, then it authorised the Lokayukta to penalise people found pressing "frivolous'' charges against any government official. Now with the cabinet approving a proposal to keep the Lokayukta outside the ambit of the RTI Act, concerns have been raised about the politicisation of the Lokayukta office. 

Earlier, the SP government had suggested it would make the Lokayukta office a multi-member body, apart from bringing the economic offences wing of police under the purview of the Lokayukta Act. But nothing has been done yet. 

The government on Tuesday drew flak for its decision to rechristen the Manyavar Shri Kanshiram Ji Urdu, Arabic-Persian University, Lucknow as Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Urdu, Arabic-Persian University. The decision drew protests from the BSP with party chief Mayawati terming the act as "politically vindictive". In a statement, Mayawati called the move "undignified and disgusting'', adding that the SP government should have opened a new university and given it a name of its choice, instead of renaming 

The Times of India, 1 August, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Uttar-Pradesh-cabinet-keeps-Lokayukta-outside-RTI-Act-ambit/articleshow/15299891.cms


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