RIGHT TO INFORMATION


While sexual assaults in West Bengal and Maharashtra are making news, the disclosure of the Hema committee report, which was submitted to the Kerala state government way back in 2019 with investigations and recommendations for women working in the Kerala film industry facing sexual harassment...

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Anjali Bhardwaj  and   Amrita Johri (The Wire) 22 August 2024
Citing ‘whistleblower documents’, US-based short seller Hindenburg Research has levelled allegations of conflict of interest against the chairperson of India’s capital markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). SEBI has been investigating charges of stock...

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Did you know that the long-forgotten noble mission of the Bhoodan Movement initiated by Acharya Vinoba Bhave in the 1950s—wherein thousands of acres of land were given away as donation by farmland owners to the landless for social equity—has been mired in irregularities, despite a bhoodan...

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In an order that would make pension funds more transparent to retired employees, the central information commissioner (CIC) has ordered, last week, that the income and expenditure statement as well as the balance sheet of the LIC Employees’ Pension Fund is public information under the Right to...

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Against the backdrop of the scandalous Puja Khedkar case—wherein disability certificates were abused and misused for her entry into the Indian administrative services (IAS) and more such cases tumbled out—Maharashtra’s information commissioner has ordered their transparency by disclosure on the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 August 2024
More than Rs54,657.87 crore is lying as unclaimed money in inoperative accounts of the employees' provident fund (EPF), reveals information received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.     An application filed under the RTI Act by Aakash Goel, an engineer, management graduate and...

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The contentious issue of the amount of Indian land ceded to China, which is guarded like a top secret but strongly taken up by veteran politician Dr Subramanian Swamy, led to the central information commissioner (CIC), last week, ordering the public information officer (CPIO) of the ministry of...

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In an order so rare, of a central information commissioner (CIC), the ‘arrogant, evasive and uncouth behaviour’ of a bunch of officials from State Bank of India (SBI) at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, who represented the second appeal hearing last fortnight, stole the show, as it formed the...

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When privilege becomes the norm, equality can seem oppressive. This, in a nutshell, captures the essence of the controversial Indian Administrative Service (IAS) probationary officer Puja Khedkar, whose maiden posting in the Pune district collectorate has metamorphosed into a controversy, that...

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There are right to information (RTI) applicants who invoke the sunshine law for the sake of getting information but there are those who use the information to fight for a social cause until it reaches the logical end.   In the past two weeks, the Bombay High Court (HC) ordered the divisional...

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The proposed Rs72,000 crore infrastructure upgrade on Great Nicobar island which is being sternly contested by environmentalists as a 'grave threat' to the island's indigenous inhabitants, and the hue and cry over felling of 100,000 trees which would damage its fragile ecosystem, is a huge...

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The Right to Information (RTI) Act is not only invoked for civic and social issues; more and more applications are being filed for information related to marital discord. For example, details of income tax returns and property tax of the estranged spouse are common and are often denied and now,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 June 2024
Despite an order from the Supreme Court, many police stations in Maharashtra still lack closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras with audio recording capabilities, show responses received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by advocate Krishna Gupta. The public information officer (PIO)...

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As volleys went to and fro between Delhi’s Artemis Hospital, the RTI (right to information) applicant and the central public information officer (CPIO) of the director general of health services (DGHS) in Delhi, regarding the issue of Artemis Hospital as a public authority and the reluctance of...

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The central public information officer (CPIO) of the Lok Sabha Sansad Bhawan filed a writ petition against the central information commissioner (CIC) because he directed on what action should be taken by parliamentarians to make the members of Parliament local area development scheme (MPLADS)...

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In a strange case of ignorance of the knowledge of the Right to Information (RTI) Act by the central public information officer (CPIO) about Indians abroad having the right to file e-RTI applications, the central information commissioner (CIC) condoned him, stating that he had no malafide...

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A cluster of applications filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, in the health ministry in 2022, regarding information on COVID-19 vaccine management and continuously denied by its central public information officer (CPIO) and first appellate authority (FAA) using exemption clauses of...

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The multi-crore contract for the procurement of ambulances and related equipment scam is making waves in Maharashtra with allegations of puffing up of the contract amount between two government resolutions (GR) – one dated 8 August 2023 and the other dated 13 March 2024.   On 15 March 2024,...

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From ranking second in the world in 2011 in the Global RTI Rating conducted regularly by the Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD), a Canada-based non-governmental organisation, along with Access Info Europe, India has slipped to the ninth position, as per the recent update.   India, which was...

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Although a recent central information commission (CIC) order has given a clean chit to the central public information officer (CPIO) of the ministry of cooperation, on the grounds that the CRCS-Sahara India refund portal has all the details of the disbursal of the depositors’ refund claim of...

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