-TheWire.in RTI data obtained by The Wire show that for the 2018 kharif season, total premium collected by companies amounted to Rs 20,747 crore while the claims paid totalled Rs 7,696 crore. New Delhi: Insurance companies have missed the deadline to recognise and pay claims worth over Rs 5,000 crore made by farmers under the Centre’s Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) scheme, according to data obtained by The Wire through...
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Centre turns down RTI plea for CIC selection details
-The Hindu DoPT says search committee’s deliberations are exempted under the Act The Centre has refused to reveal details of the ongoing selection process for four new Central Information Commissioners, despite a Supreme Court order directing it to do so. The only information disclosed is that 256 people have applied for the four vacant positions, which were advertised five months ago. In its reply to a Right to Information request, the Department of...
More »Revealed: River of anonymous election cash that flowed to Calcutta -Anita Joshua
-The Telegraph Figures in May take the total amount of money invested in this opaque source of funding since January to Rs 4,794 crore Electoral bonds accounting for the maximum amount of political donations in India in May were sold in Calcutta, according to information accessed by a citizen through the Right to Information route. Of the bonds worth Rs 822 crore that were sold in select outlets of the State Bank of...
More »Bank Frauds Zoom to Rs 71,500 Crore in 2018-19
-PTI A total of 6,800 cases of fraud were reported by scheduled commercial banks and some financial institutions in last fiscal, the RBI said in an RTI query. New Delhi: Over 6,800 cases of bank fraud involving an unprecedented Rs 71,500 crore have been reported in 2018-19, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said. A total of 5,916 such cases were reported by banks in 2017-18 involving Rs 41,167.03 crore, it said. As...
More »CIC tells RBI to give defaulters names to RTI applicant
-Deccan Chronicle The RTI Act provides for a two-stage dispute resolution process. Mumbai: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the RBI to disclose the list of big loan defaulters it had sent to various banks for resolution. The CIC's directive came while deciding on a plea by an RTI activist, who had based the Right to Information application on media reports that RBI Deputy Governor Viral Acharya in a lecture in 2017...
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