-The Times of India PANAJI: Officers not furnishing information on time may land in trouble as the State Information Commission (SIC) has already penalized two panchayat secretaries of Penha da Franca panchayat and Siolim-Marna panchayat. The SIC, hearing the Sachin Kalokhe petition for delay in furnishing information under RTI Act, imposed a penalty of 7,000 on the Penha da Franca panchayat secretary and directed that the amount of penalty should be recovered...
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SC issues Notice in case seeking disclosure of performance appraisal reports-Soibam Rocky Singh
-Law et al News The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the central government on a petition seeking to disclose in public all ACRs (Annual Confidential Reports) or performance appraisal reports of all government officials under RTI. A bench of Justice GS Singhvi and Justice SJ Mukhopadhaya today sought response from the government on the petition which raises a vital public issue as to whether performance appraisal reports of a public...
More »RTI Activists see hope in HC order to appoint 2 more ICs-Kumar Anand
-Express India Acting on a public interest litigation (PIL) on August 14, the Gujarat High Court (HC) directed the state government to appoint two more information commissioners (IC) at the office of the state Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) to clear the piling-up secondary appeals and complaints under the Right to Information Act (RTI). This was not for the first time the HC ordered the state government to fill the vacant posts at...
More »CAG Vinod Rai's service records and dossier missing
-IANS The service records of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai "are not traceable", the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has revealed in response to a Right to Information (RTI) application. Lucknow activist Arvind Shukla had filed the RTI application last month, seeking details about the most powerful accountant of the country, who has gained renown as a vigilant anti-corruption watchdog and who is once again in the spotlight after...
More »Lack of compensation norms for clinical trials results in exploitation of poor patients-Khomba Singh
-The Economic Times Drug companies paid as little as 50,000 as compensation to families of volunteers who died during clinical trials for new medicines last year, leading to sharp criticism about the paltry sums being handed out and growing clamour among health groups for more stringent guidelines on new drug trials. According to government data accessed by a healthcare activist through an RTI query, Germany's Fresenius Kabi paid 50,000 each to the...
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