RIGHT TO INFORMATION


The government has issued a circular on 31 March 2017 giving draft rules, which it is proposing for the Right to Information (RTI) Act.  Most citizens and media have shown considerable concern at these and there has been a feeling that the government is trying to emasculate the RTI Act. From...

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The Centre on Wednesday dubbed as "misleading" media reports on the Right to Information (RTI) Act rules, saying no change has been effected in either the fee structure or the word limit for the RTI queries.   The government said it is committed to ensure full and easy implementation...

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The Maharashtra State Chief Information Commissioner (SCIC) has directed all public authorities in Maharashtra to upload complete information of all welfare schemes on their respective websites before 30 April 2017. Those public authorities which do not have any public welfare schemes should...

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The Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), the nodal agency for implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, has chosen to be secretive regarding information on the selection process of information commissioners (IC), even though activists had successfully fought to make the...

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Notwithstanding the myriad opinions and interpretations of several court judgments on whether cooperative societies come under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, a recent landmark judgment of the Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court reiterates that urban cooperative banks, cooperative...

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In the last week of January, Justice Sanjeev Sablok of the Delhi High Court handled two cases of two Public Information Officers (PIOs) who petitioned against penalty levied on them by the Central Information Commissioners. He gave different judgments on the two cases, one of which reflects...

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IANS 16 January 2017
The RBI has admitted that it has no details of any irregularities or scams in the exchange of the demonetised currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 by the cooperative banks, a reply under RTI revealed on Monday.   Prominent RTI activist Anil Galgali had sought information under the...

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So, KL Bishnoi, former Director General of Police, Sambhaji Sarkunde, former IAS officer and Dilip Dharurkar, journalist from Aurangabad, have been appointed State Information Commissioners of Maharashtra last week.    While the state government is taking credit of filling up these...

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Amiya Kumar Kushwaha (IANS) 09 January 2017
The Central Information Commission (CIC) has slapped a fine of Rs 25,000 on Delhi University's Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) for rejecting an RTI application seeking Prime Minister Narendra Modi's graduation degree.   The Chief Information Commission, M. Sridhar Acharyulu,...

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It is well known that India is the diabetes capital of the world but we have not seen any government at the centre clamp down on aerated drinks, which worldwide are known to have a high amount of sugar and are detrimental to health and a cause of lifestyle diseases. However, a reply received...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 January 2017
The project of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Memorial in the Arabian Sea is without any feasibility report, not there any technical estimation done, reveals a reply received under the Right to Information Act. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 24 December 2016 laid the foundation for the Memorial...

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Millions of Indians from every corner of the country have stood in queues at banks and automatic teller machines (ATMs), and suffered enormous inconvenience since 8 November 2016 to withdraw their own money. There has probably never been a decision before (except during wars) which has...

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Consider this depressing scenario of threats/ killings of RTI activists reported in 2016: 13th January: N A Shah Ansari, Puri, Odisha 16th January: 12 MKSS RTI activists assaulted in Jhalawar, Rajasthan 2nd February: Romel Sutharia, assaulted in Tapi, Gujarat 16th March:...

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“The Central Information Commission had given a ruling in nine different cases that RBI must disclose information,” says Shailesh Gandhi, former Central Information Commissioner and Right to Information (RTI). He was reacting on the shocking revelation published by Moneylife about the Reserve...

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Looks like the reasons for the disastrous implementation of demonetisation by the present government that affects each and every citizen of this country, will remain a dirty secret. The Reserve Bank of India, violating the basic norms of the Right to Information (RTI) Act is against supply of...

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While the Indian government has declared that secrecy was very essential before demonetisation was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the fact is, the decision affected every citizen, as crores of citizens have been standing in queues since 9th November, battling hardships and cash...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed all ministers from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to declare their bank account transactions between 8th November and 31 December 2016 to Party President Amit Shah. However, the fact is, all the ministers are bound by Code of Conduct and Representation...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 November 2016
In what turns out to be a sinister attempt to scrub all news about the murder of Right to Information (RTI) activist, Satish Shetty, Moneylife received an email, purportedly from his wife, in the name of a Mukta Shetty asking for reports about his murder to be removed from our website,...

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The Central Information Commission (CIC), which had given the task of compiling success stories of Right to Information (RTI) from across the States, to Pune’s Yashwantrao Chavan Academy for Development and Administration (YASHDA), has come out with a glossy, 120-page coffee table book. This...

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Senior activists, including former central information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi, who attended the 11th National RTI convention held in Delhi last week are disturbed at the growing trend of questioning the motives of Right to Information (RTI) activists and accusing them of having ulterior...

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