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RTI Reveals No New Night Shelter Added in Delhi Under Kejriwal Government in Last Two Years -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

-TheWire.in The homeless, especially women, have no place to go to during the winters in the capital. Despite a large population of the homeless, including women, unable to access night shelters in Delhi, not a single night shelter has been added by the Arvind Kejriwal government in the past two years. This has been revealed in a reply to a query filed by Delhi BJP spokesperson Harish Khurana under the Right to...

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Government spends Rs 3.09 per Rs 500 currency note: RTI

-IANS RBI buys the currency notes from the Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Pvt Ltd Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) spends Rs 3.09 for each Rs 500 note as cost towards paper, printing and other charges, an RTI query has revealed. The information was given here on Friday to Mumbai Right To Information activist Anil Galgali on his query on the printing costs incurred by the government for printing Rs 500...

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PMO Has No Information on Officials Consulted Before Demonetisation

-PTI New Delhi: There is no information available about officials whose views were taken before the decision to demonetise high-value currency notes was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has said. The PMO also refused to answer a query on whether the chief economic advisor (CEA) and the finance minister were consulted before the sudden announcement was made, saying the query does not come...

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Now RBI Cites 'Threat to Life' Exemption to Deny RTI query on Demonetisation Decision

-PTI More stonewalling from the ‘Reserved’ Bank of India New Delhi: Were the views of the chief economic advisor and the finance minister taken before the sudden announcement of demonetisation of high-value currency notes by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8? The Reserve Bank of India feels this query cannot be answered under the Right to Information Act as it does not come under the definition of information under the transparency...

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Disclosing Reasons for Demonetisation Will Hurt India, Says RBI

-TheWire.in Refusal to disclose reasons for the demonetisation decision does not stand up to legal scrutiny, RTI experts say. New Delhi: It’s time to call it the Reserved Bank of India. Fifty days after the board of India’s central bank voted to discontinue all Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes and the prime minister announced the demonetisation of 86% of India’s cash stock,  the Reserve Bank of India has said the reasons for...

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