The Delhi High Court Friday stayed the Central Information Commission (CIC) order directing the Indian Air Force (IAF) to provide information regarding Special Flight Returns (SRF)-II, which contains details of the Prime Minister's entourage on his foreign trips.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the National Informatics Centre have said they do not have any information about the "creation" of the Aarogya Setu application promoted by the government to contain the spread of COVID 19.
MCA had formed the new CIC recently, which has Kulkarni and Sameer Dighe as members. The committee is headed by former India player-cum-coach Lalchand Rajput.
The MCA Apex Council will be discussing on the formation of Cricket Improvement Committee (CIC).
Bimal Julka took oath as new Chief Information Commissioner of the Central Information Commission on March 06.
Noting that "Caesar's wife should be above suspicion", the Central Information Commission has directed the government to disclose the names of IAS officers who faced disciplinary proceedings in the last 10 years. Information Commissioner Divya Prakash Sinha said the disclosure of information was in the larger public interest as these officers occupy high government positions.
Besides the top post in the CIC, the government has also decided to fill the four vacant posts of Information Commissioners. Currently, the Commission has six Information Commissioners against a sanctioned strength of 10.
A large number of applications and appeals filed under the Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act, 2009, would have been pending on the date of bifurcation.
In August 2019, there were 63 CICs registered with RBI. As on March 31, 2019, the total asset size of the CICs was 2.63 trillion and they had 87,048 crore (approx.) of borrowings.
A bench headed by justices S A Bobde gave the directions after RTI activists Anjali Bhardwaj and others submitted that the earlier apex court orders have not been complied with.
The Modi government has reduced the tenure of Chief Information Commissioners and all information commissioners in transparency panels across the country to three years. The new RTI rules were notified Thursday night, a move activists call an assault on their independence and autonomy.
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