BCCI not a public authority, doesn't fall under RTI: CICThe Central Information Commission has ruled the Board of Control for Cricket in India is not a public authority. This reverses a previous ...
'BCCI not a public authority under RTI Act': CIC overturns its 2018 orderThe Central Information Commission has ruled that Board of Control for Cricket in India does not qualify as a “public authority” under the ...
CIC asks Lok Sabha Secretariat to revisit denial of disclosure of Rs 1.7 crore electronic procurement bills for 2021-22The Central Information Commission has ordered the Lok Sabha Secretariat to reconsider its refusal to share bills for electronic items boug...
Can show PM Modi's degree to court, not strangers: Delhi University tells High CourtDelhi University agreed to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi's degree records to the Delhi High Court, but refused disclosure under RTI. So...
Delhi HC sets aside CIC order asking CBDT to give information on Ram Mandir TrustThe Delhi High Court has set aside a Central Information Commission (CIC) order directing the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to discl...
Rural masses most vulnerable to graft, spread awareness about RTI Act in rural areas: Parliamentary panelThe panel expressed concern over a large number of vacancies in the posts of Information Commissioners in state Information Commissions and...
CIC to hear 474 pleas of J&KOver seven months after Jammu and Kashmir reorganisation in October 2019, the Union Territory (UT) has finally transferred 474 RTI cases to...
CIC to begin hearing Jammu & Kashmir RTI cases from May 15Though the union territories of J&K and Ladakh have still not put their RTI machinery in place or transferred pending RTI applications to C...
CIC to hear RTI appeals of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh residents from NovemberLike rest of India, J&K and Ladakh residents can’t access information shared by foreign govts.
Over 63 per cent cut in budget for RTI, CICA total of Rs 8.66 crore allocated under the head "CIC and RTI", indicating a massive cut of Rs 14.95 crore from the revised estimates for ...
Finally, after a decade of RTI roll out 94% ministries declared statistics in last fiscalfter refusing to divulge statistics on RTI applications for years, a record 94 per cent of central ministries and departments have followed...
Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha secretariats, Delhi High Court not filing RTI compliance reports: StudyEvery public authority under RTI Act is mandated to submit the statistics related to processing of the information seeking applications eve...
Delay in CIC appointment may lead to scrutiny of panel’s ordersGovernment’s decision to put the CIC appointment on hold could mean that all orders passed by the Commission can be quashed by courts.
Delhi High Court accuses Sonia Gandhi of not abiding by CIC directiveThe High Court on Wednesday issued directions on a petition accusing her of failure to abide by a Central Information Commission directive.
Pending arbitration no ground for withholding info: CICPendency of an arbitration proceeding or a litigation cannot be a reason to deny information to an RTI applicant by any government departme...
Important to keep practical control of RTI objectives: Salman KhurshidUnion Minister Salman Khurshid today said it is important to keep a practical control of RTI objectives as they cannot be allowed to "run r...
- Government denies information to Central Information Commission
The attempt of Central Information Commission (CIC) to bring transparency in the functioning of ministries and autonomous bodies has come a...