This amounts Amendments to the Act and State Govt Can Do this as it an parlimentary Act Section 27 empowers to make rules by the appropriate Government only to carry out the provisions of the Act , A cursory Glance of the Six Items of information which assam govt has declared are already Covered Under Sec 8.1 From a to j in one or the other Clause .The words Used in the Order " in addition to" itself Denotes Somebody is Acting smart .It Now Left to us to Extract the File notings and other Correspondence Culminating in the issue of the order Both at political dept of assam govt And Governor office and Challenge these additions in Assam high court as well as delhi High court Also we should ensure Sec 27 sub section F is elaborated and Taken as One more shelter
N vikramsimha ,Trustee RTI study Center & KRIA Katte , #12 Sumeru Sir M N Krishna Rao Road , Basvangudi < Bangalore 560004. --- On Wed, 6/1/10, C K Jam <[email protected]> wrote: From: C K Jam <[email protected]> Subject: [rti_india] Can a State Governemnt add more exemptions to Sec 8 ? To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 6 January, 2010, 7:50 PM Can a State Government add more exemptions to Sec 8 ? The Government of Assam has specified some information to be exempted under Sec 8 of the RTI Act - in addition to Sec 8(1)(a) to (j) - which are already there in the Act passed by Parliament. Please see: GOVERNMENT OF ASSAM POLITICAL (A) DEPARTMENT ORDERS BY THE GOVERNOR No. PLA.384/2005/ 55 Dated: 8th March, 2006 The Governor of Assam is pleased to notify the exemption nom disclosure of the following information under Section 8 of Right to Information Act, 2005 of Govemment of India. This is in addition to the items from (a) to (j) under section 8 (1) of the same Act. 1. Information relating to deployment and movement of force. 2. Information relating to security arrangements in respect of individuals/ organisations/ vital installations. 3. Information relating to operations against extremists/terroris ts/insurgents/ outfits and anti-national elements. 4. Information on details of ceasefire and negotiations. 5. Identity of informers giving information on extremists, terrorists, insurgents and anti-national elements, information as regards activities and movement of extremists, terrorists, insurgent and anti-national elements. 6. Identity of officers involved in operations against extremists, terrorists, insurgent and anti-national elements. RAJIV KUMAR BORA, Commissioner & Secy. to the Govt. of Assam, Home and Political Department. Is this legal and allowed ? RTIwanted The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/
