-TheWire.in The RTI query had been filed by Saket Gokhale in the aftermath of Arnab Goswami's petition being listed immediately before the top court. New Delhi: The response to a Right to Information (RTI) Act query has revealed that there are 931 pending interim, regular or anticipatory bail petitions pending before the Supreme Court. In addition, there are also 141 petitions related to suspension of sentence are also pending. The RTI query was...
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National Population Register: Questionnaire is being finalised, says Registrar General of India -Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu “The Hindu”, in a query filed under the RTI Act, sought information on the expected date of the first phase of Census 2021 and an update of the NPR. The office of the Registrar General of India (RGI) has said the schedule or the questionnaire of the National Population Register (NPR) is “being finalised” and the information about the expected date of first phase of Census 2021 is “not available.” The...
More »Who Created Aarogya Setu? RTI Body Pulls Up Government Over Evasive Reply -Arvind Gunasekar and Sreenivasan Jain
-NDTV.com The Central Information Commission has issued notice to the government for "evasive answers" on who created the Aarogya Setu app. New Delhi: Millions of Indians have installed the Aarogya Setu, a contact tracing app that the government pushed as an essential tool in the fight against the coronavirus. But while Aarogya Setu's website says it was developed by the National Informatics Centre and the IT ministry, both have denied knowledge of...
More »PM CARES Fund gets FCRA exemption without meeting pre-condition of CAG audit -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Need to seek consent from PM CARES before giving info on FCRA exemption: MHA response to RTI The PM CARES Fund has received exemption from all provisions of the law meant to regulate foreign donations, although it does not seem to meet the pre-condition of being a body established and owned by the government whose accounts are audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). Responding to a recent...
More »The RTI regime failed India during Covid-19 -Yashovardhan Azad
-Hindustan Times Responses have been elusive on critical issues, including health care infra, PM Cares fund, schemes, and migrants In the lethal jaws of a pandemic, when lives and livelihoods are at stake, the information law of a democracy is expected to live up to its responsibilities — to empower the citizens and to ensure transparency and accountability. Free flow of information is an essential component of crisis management. And this is...
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