Grounds For Rejection to Access Information In Certain Cases under RTI Act – Without prejudice to the provisions of Section 8, a Central Public Information Officer or a State Public Information Officer, as the case may be, may reject a request for information where such a request for providing access would involve an infringement of…
Relation between RTI and Corruption, RTI (Right to Information) and corruption are inextricably linked. RTI gives citizens the legal right to access information from public authorities, which promotes transparency and accountability in government operations. Corruption, on the other hand, thrives in an atmosphere of secrecy and opacity. Corrupt officials may refuse or withhold information in…
Severability Under the RTI Act of 2005, severability refers to the process of separating exempted information from non-exempted information in a requested record. This means that if a record contains both exempted and non-exempted information, the public authority must offer access to the non-exempted information and sever the exempted information before granting access to the…
Meaning of RTI – it means right of every citizen to access information of public interest which is under control of public authority. in order to ensure transparency accountability in administration and participation of common man in governance. So the act was enacted. Definition Of RTI Right to Information (RTI) is defined under Section 2(j)…
Third Party Information Under RTI Act, 2005 – Under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, there may be cases where the information requested by an applicant contains third-party information. Third-party information refers to information that belongs to a person or organization other than the applicant and the public authority. The RTI Act provides a…
Powers and functions of the Central Information Commission and State Information Commission – The provisions in relation to the functions of the Central Information Commission and the State Information Commission are given in section 18 of the Right to Information Act. Section 18 has a total of four sub-sections relating to the powers and functions…