RIGHT TO INFORMATION


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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As against former bureaucrats holding posts of state chief information commissioners (SCIC) in Maharashtra, the newly-appointed Rahul Pande, who was a mainstream journalist for over two decades, was appointed in this coveted position last fortnight.   Prior to his current role, Mr Pande...

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In what can be termed as the height of bureaucratic apathy, veteran journalist and RTI activist Dr Shahid Raza Burney has slammed Maharashtra’s Maha IT department and the general administration department (GAD) for a massive failure in the processing of his 49 Right to Information (RTI)...

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Right to information (RTI) applicant Shiv Kumar Kanoi, who filed over 100 RTI applications including 65 from January to December 2024 to the Central Bank of India’s Kolkata and Mumbai branches, with the same number of first appeals and second appeals, was reprimanded with all his appeals being...

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Just like the toll plaza that we pay irrespective of the bad condition of roads and other services on expressways, property tax has to be promptly paid by citizens irrespective of pathetic civic amenities, Pune being a sterling example.   Questioning the reason why she must pay property tax...

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In a significant step toward reforming healthcare delivery in Maharashtra, last week, several citizens, activists and healthcare experts formed the Medical Services Transparency Forum against the backdrop of Pune’s Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital issue wherein the delay in attending to an...

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A major fire insurance claim dispute involving Oriental Insurance Company Ltd led to a series of right to information (RTI) applications, in which the applicant requested information pertaining to his factory that was gutted and subsequently filed a complaint with the central information...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 April 2025
Leaders of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), including Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), DMK, CPI(M), and Samajwadi Party, have collectively demanded the immediate repeal of a controversial clause in the recently enacted Digital Personal Data Protection Act, warning it...

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There are 121 private and charitable hospitals in Pune which are on the panel of the contributory medical assistance scheme under the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)’s health department and Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital is one of them. Hence, the health department of the PMC is bound by the...

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