-The Hindu AISHE confirms rising Vacancies in higher education New Delhi: The total number of teachers in higher educational institutions in India has come down by about 2.34-lakh in the last three years, as per the All India Survey on Higher Education report 2017-18. Coming at a time when there has been widespread concern over the continuing Vacancies in universities, the report is likely to be an eye-opener on the dearth of teachers...
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SC scan on info panel Vacancies -R Balaji
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre and nine states, including Bengal, to file affidavits within four weeks stating by when they would fill their vacant posts of information commissioners and, in some cases, even chief information commissioners. The bench of Justices A.K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan were hearing a petition from RTI activist Anjali Bharadwaj, who cited four Vacancies in the Central Information Commission and many...
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre, Bengal and seven other states on a petition seeking immediate filling up of the posts in the Central Information Commission and the state information commissions. A bench of Justices A.K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan sought responses within four weeks on the PIL filed jointly by three RTI activists - Anjali Bharadwaj, Amrita Jorhi and Lokesh K. Batra -...
More »Can't use RTI to know the reason you were rejected, UP Police tells constable aspirants -Sanya Dhingra
-ThePrint.in Over 15 lakh candidates had applied for the 28,915 Vacancies announced by the UP Police Recruitment and Promotion Board in 2015. New Delhi: A recent notification by the Uttar Pradesh government announcing recruitment results for the police force came with a curious caveat: No information pertaining to the results will be provided under the RTI. This is a blatant violation of the RTI Act, which mandates every public body to be transparent...
More »In replies to RTI queries, snapshots of information panels' health
-The Indian Express Several commissions were either not functioning or functioning at reduced capacity as posts of Commissioners, including those of Chief Information Commissioners, were vacant during the period under review. A recent study to assess the performance of Information Commissions (ICs) by non-government organisations Satark Nagrik Sangathan (SNS) and Centre for Equity Studies (CES) has found several shortcomings in their functioning, which impact the effectiveness of the Right to Information...
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