In the latest tug-of-war on the applicability of the Right to Information (RTI) Act on government decisions, the law ministry is set to challenge a Central Information Commission (CIC) ruling, directing it to accept the ownership of its legal opinions. The ministry is unhappy with the July 27 ruling of the CIC, in which the transparency watchdog had held that the legal advice tendered by it to various government departments cannot...
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Officials fined Rs 44 lakh for denying information under RTI
-IANS A sum of Rs.44.23 lakh was recovered as penalty from central public information officers in the last four years for failing to provide information under the Right to Information (RTI), the Rajya Sabha was informed Thursday. "A sum of Rs.2,21,56,363 was collected as fees from RTI applicants by central public authorities over the period from 2007-08 to 2010-11 while over Rs.44 lakh was recovered as penalty," Minister of State for...
More »Manipur RTI activist ostracised by Sobhapati Samom
An RTI activist in Manipur’s Imphal East district has been ostracised inhis own village for raising question over the construction of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan school building. Th Biren Singh (55) of Wakhong village fearing the eviction of the village school buildingin future if constructed in the unauthorised land, filed an RTI application enquiring whether the school building was constructed within the school’s authorised (patta) land or not. “Now, the villagers who were...
More »Court: allow students to inspect evaluated scripts under RTI by J Venkatesan
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the disclosure, under the Right to Information Act, of answer sheets of students of any examination conducted by any agency in India. A Bench of Justices R.V. Raveendran and A.K. Patnaik gave this ruling, upholding a Calcutta High Court order permitting students to inspect and photocopy their answer sheets in any educational or professional examination. The Bench held that evaluated scripts would come under the...
More »Gujarat RTI activists mull association
-DNA At the Right to Information (RTI) activists’ meet on Sunday, discussions were held for forming taluka-level committees to be governed by a state-level association. Also, in the meeting, inclusion of government officials to support and strengthen the committees was considered. Around 50 RTI activists participated in the meet and discussed various problems faced by them. RTI activist, Vinod Pandya said that all the activists worked independently without any association’s support till...
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