Dear Manoj, There is some background to this decision involving a protege of IC(T) at DoPT who decided that IGL (Indraprastha Gas Ltd) was NOT a public authority. Later IC(Ansari) went on to hold it was, and the matter is in High Court - as usual. The interesting thing is that CIC's PIO has given a RTI reply very recently to somebody that CIC has no information available to it as to whether the CIC is empowered by law to declare bodies to be public authority. He has further stated that in the cases when CIC has done so these have been stayed by the Courts.
In any case, our group member Mr. Kamra has quite a bit to learn about RTI (or was he denied a proper hearing as is so often the case?). Dear Mr.Kamra please participate in my great Sackhim RTI challenge. Sarbajit --- In [email protected], Manoj Pai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At last we have a decision clearly spelling out who is > the Public Authority distinguishing itself from the > Appropriate Government. The golden lrule as clearly > elaborated by none other than IC Tiwari, who by is now > on verge of re-defining the various provisions of the > RTI Act, is as below :- > > In other words, public authorities which are not > themselves "appropriate governments" cannot create > public authorities. In order to be able to create > another public authority, it was necessary that that > public authority also answered the definition of > "appropriate government" > > Check decision for full details > > http://cic.gov.in/CIC-Orders/Decision_15022008_10.pdf > > Manoj Pai > Ahmedabad > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping >
