RIGHT TO INFORMATION


Just to recall, the election commission of India (ECI) ordered the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar in June to weed out voters who were allegedly ineligible to vote, as per the election laws and rules.   As per the rules, no person can go to an electoral...

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The key essence of the National Sports Governance Bill, 2025, which has been recently passed in Parliament, is to monitor and standardise governance across all national sports federations for complete transparency in the welfare of sportspersons and dispute resolution.    To achieve this, the...

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As a sequel to the 9 July 2025 Delhi High Court (HC) order, in which the court granted the five petitioners – all journalists – the liberty to approach the central information commission (CIC) directly to amplify their demands for public hearing for second appeals and complaints under the Right...

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As per instructions issued by the department of personnel and training (DoPT), every ministry/ department and the organisations under it is required to designate an officer of the rank of deputy secretary, as liaison officer; to ensure that the appointing authorities comply with orders...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 July 2025
Terming recent amendments to the Right to Information (RTI) Act as a grave threat to democratic accountability, citizen empowerment, and constitutional rights, justice Ajit Prakash (AP) Shah, former chief justice of Delhi High Court (HC) and ex-chairman of the law commission of India, has...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 July 2025
Indian citizens residing abroad, including non-resident Indians (NRIs), remain deprived of the opportunity to participate in virtual hearings of right to information (RTI) appeals and complaints, a critical gap that threatens the core of India’s transparency regime. Commodore (Cmde) Lokesh K...

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In a stern second appeal order issued by the central information commission (CIC) last week, the office of the chief commissioner for persons with disabilities (CCPD), has been pulled up for its failure to respond to an RTI (Right to Information) application concerning reservation in promotion...

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Isn’t it natural that when you get your mark-sheet, you get to see your marks? Well, the internationally acclaimed Savitribai Phule University Pune (SBUP) provides only credits and grades and it is the marks ledger in which the marks are provided.   So what’s the controversy? In a bizarre...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 July 2025
Holding that regulatory opacity cannot be shielded by procedural shortcuts, the Bombay High Court (HC) directed market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to re-examine its denial of key queries filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by activist Subhash Chandra...

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Presently, the central information commission (CIC) holds its hearings in a hybrid form, wherein RTI applicants and representatives of the public authorities (PA) attend either in person or virtually, but the access is restricted to journalists, civil society members and the general public...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 July 2025
A significant water leakage at the Acharya Atre Chowk metro station during a heavy downpour on 26 May 2025 led to major disruptions in Mumbai Metro services, prompting an internal investigation and the imposition of a Rs10 lakh penalty on DOGUS-SOMA JV, the contractor responsible for the...

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Bhavini Srivastava  and   Ratna Singh (Bar  and   Bench) 09 July 2025
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a petition which sought directions to widen public access to the hearings of the Central Information Commission (CIC) under the Right to Information (RTI) Act (Saurav Das & Ors v CIC).   The Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar...

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The central information commission (CIC), in a decision last week, has ordered that all recruited official posts in Kendriya Vidyalaya organisations must come under the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act and be made public by the Kendriya Vidyalaya authorities; with this case...

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Bhavini Srivastava (Bar  and   Bench) 02 July 2025
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday gave the Central government three months' time to frame rules for providing information under the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) in electronic form (Aditya Chauhan & Anr vs Union of India & Anr).    A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 July 2025
The SBI Foundation, the corporate social responsibility (CSR) arm of State Bank of India (SBI) has refused to provide key information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, claiming that it is not a 'public authority' as defined under Section 2(h) of the Act. RTI activist Anil Galgali...

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Amidst rising concerns over data accuracy in innumerable Aadhaar cards, that has caught even school and college children in a Catch-22 crisis if their cards used for identification do not match during admission in their educational institutes, the Right to Information (RTI) route taken by a...

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It is, indeed, laudable that 80-year-old Kumar Ambwani invoked the Right to Information (RTI) Act at the department of pension and pensioners’ welfare, New Delhi, to overcome his confusion over which exact date his 20% additional pension would begin—whether on attaining the age of 80 or only...

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The central information commission has ruled that information regarding the licensing and suspension status of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes used for potable water must be disclosed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, as it is a matter of grave public health concern.   HDPE...

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The central information commission has issued strict warnings to two central public information officers (CPIOs) of the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) for violating provisions of the RTI Act by denying two students photocopies of their answer sheets.   In both cases, the CPIOs...

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Recently, the newly-appointed state chief information commissioner (SCIC) of Maharashtra, Rahul Pande, at a public event, expressed grave concern about a handful of individuals filing multiple RTI applications on the same issue, thus spiking the number of second appeal pendency.   If you go...

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