RIGHT TO INFORMATION


Moneylife Digital Team 01 April 2013
Quite often Section 8(1)(h) of the RTI Act is used by PIOs to deny information to the RTI applicant. However, in recent judgments information commissioners have directed PIOs to disclose information regardless Section 8(1)(h) of the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) is often abused by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 March 2013
The board, on 15 March 2011, unanimously shortlisted five candidates for the post of DG of DD and AIR. However, within eight days, the board members were ‘asked’ by the I&B ministry to convey their order of 'preferences' While the Union government always keep saying that Prasar Bharati,...

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In 2011, governor of Goa tried to dodge RTI queries by stating that he does not come under RTI. Now, the J&K governor’s secretariat has denied information stating that the office of the governor is a ‘privileged’ one Rewind: In January 2011, Goa-based RTI (Right to Information) activist,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 March 2013
Electronic postal order is a big achievement for Indian citizens abroad who have been pressing the government for the last five years to facilitate them in nation building by exercising their right to know The Postal department (DoP) has launched Indian postal order in electronic format...

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The power of RTI was realised by this citizen who followed Moneylife’s instruction to use RTI, as he was unable to get his passport, despite police verification having been submitted Ever since Moneylife has begun the passport campaign, it has been urging passport applicants to file an...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 March 2013
Former Central Information Commissioner-turned activist Shailesh Gandhi had filed a second appeal for obtaining information about undertrials in Maharashtra prisons Former Central Information Commissioner (CIC) Shailesh Gandhi is back at the role of an activist of the Right to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 March 2013
The State Information Commissioner has issued a show-cause notice to the PIO of home ministry for not providing information under the RTI Act, within the stipulated time Taking a strong objection on the Public Information Officer (PIO) of the home ministry for issuing orders instead of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 March 2013
For the first time, the Directorate of Estate has said the there is no more unauthorised occupation of type-VIII government bungalows in New Delhi. However, there are still some bungalows like 6, Krishna Menon Marg, that remain unallocated for years The Directorate of Estate (DoE) for...

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Bureaucratic tapism in the form official correspondence between the home ministry and the defence ministry led to a delay in sending army troops to quell violence is clear from the RTI query. The information which was denied under “classified information” was later...

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RTI activists Venkatesh Nayak and Vivek Velankar sought information on copies of all mercy petitions submitted to the president of India along with file notings and decisions. They were stonewalled under Article 74 (2) of the Constitution and not Section 8 of the RTI Act When the...

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The initiative by the Pune Passport Grievance Forum has received overwhelming response from aggrieved citizens exposing the malfunctioning at the passport office. Since the story is the same throughout the country, let’s build up pressure by filing RTI applications Our cell phones were...

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A Moneylife supported RTI application is likely to make SEBI put PMS data on its website For the first time, those who want to invest in portfolio management schemes (PMS) run by fund companies and brokerage firms and hard-sold by distributors will be able to get comparable performance...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 February 2013
Finance ministry says appointing a nodal officer at the ministry level would increase work load. However activists feel this would help RTI applicants as many a times, their applications are shuttled between various departments within the same ministry to avoid responsibility of responding...

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The apex court’s order would be a major setback for transparency and democracy in India and would dilute the RTI Act more seriously The Supreme Court has recently given an order imposing costs of Rs1 lakh on the Karnataka Information Commissioner for what it calls a frivolous litigation....

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Does this provision in Section 8 wherein, despite exemptions you have the right to information if it is of larger public interest being correctly interpreted by Courts? A study thinks otherwise Notwithstanding Section 8 of the Right to Information (RTI) Act under which you are denied the...

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For the first time, investors of scores of portfolio management schemes run by banks and brokers will be able to access information on their performance and track-record on the SEBI website. This follows an order by the Chief Information Commissioner under the RTI Act. SEBI has been asked to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 January 2013
The annual appraisal reports of all IAS officers in Maharashtra are lost in the Mantralaya fire, claims the state government in an RTI reply In an RTI (Right to Information) response to former Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi, the Maharashtra government has said that...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 January 2013
Moneylife Foundation completes 150 events with a workshop on RTI for advanced users conducted by former chief information commissioner, Shailesh Gandhi. Mr Gandhi discussed various case studies during the session In just under three years, Moneylife Foundation reached yet another...

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Information commissions are increasingly being lenient in penalising Public Information Officers (PIOs) for not providing information that they should, or being absent at hearings at the information commission. If so, are the information commissioners making PIOs and Appellate Authorities...

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With the Department of Posts all set to launch its electronic postal order for accepting RTI fee online from Indians living abroad by 15th January, the five-year campaign of RTI activists and NRIs will finally bear fruit The final trigger for the launch of e-IPO (electronic Indian...

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