Leaders from all political parties gathered at Rishra Wellington Ground today to exchange Eid greetings after the namaz.
President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office to Heeralal Samariya as CIC in the Central Information Commission at a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Monday.
The Maharashtra SIC is without a Chief Information Commissioner and functioning with only four Commissioners even though more than 1,15,000 appeals/complaints are pending, the petitioner said.
He was speaking at the 15th Annual Convention of Central Information Commission titled, “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav: Citizen – centric Governance through RTI” at Vigyan Bhawan.
The provisions under Right to Information Act, 2005 came in force in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh since October 31, 2019.
It lobbed the matter before the CIC again to consider private contentions in the light of the exemption clauses of Section 8(1) of the act.
The commission underlined that since the expenditure is from the public exchequer it cannot be withheld under the “cloak” of commercial confidence and fiduciary capacity.
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