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*New Delhi **June 30: *The Centre's decision of not disclosing file notings under the Right to Information Act has drawn criticism from the Central Information Commission, which held that this amounted to violation of the transparency law. Starting the debate all over again, the department of personnel and training (DoPT) rejected that file notings were exempted under the RTI Act. The commission said it meant "substituting the law". "The circular of DoPT is curious in that it seeks to substitute the law passed by Parliament with its own interpolation inserted in its website," chief information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah said. The circular was brought to the notice of the transparency panel during a hearing on a complaint of retired IAS officer Des Raj Dhingra, alleging that the DoPT had refused to provide him information relating to file noting on his RTI plea. "What the DoPT would appear to wish to do by means of this presumptuous circular is to substitute an opinion of an undersecretary for the (earlier) decision of the commission," Mr Habibullah said. The commission also pointed out that the government's decision of not disclosing file notings under the RTI Act has been taken not on the basis of any expert advice, but on the recommendation of an undersecretary. ----------------------------- I blog at: http://legalterror.wordpress.com/ http://society.indianskeptic.com/ Keep Fighting 498A Keep Fighting Legal Terrorism Keep Fighting Inequality in Justice http://www.pollsb.com/webdigr If "con" is the opposite of "pro", then what is the opposite of progress? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
