Economic Times: New Delhi: Wednesday,
April 05, 2017.
The
government has hit back at the Congress for raking up an unnecessary
controversy over the new draft rules for Right to Information (RTI) Act.
Minister of
state for personnel and training Jitendra Singh said: "The key provisions
of the 2012 Rules framed when UPA was in power have been incorporated verbatim.
No change has been made in the RTI fee structure. The parts of rules commented
upon by Manish Tewari are the ones which have remained unaltered. Therefore any
controversy in this regard is without any basis and motivated."
The minister
emphasised the Modi government was committed to ensuring full and easy implementation
of RTI. Singh explained the need for notifying new rules.
"Legality
of the CIC (Management) regulations of 2007 was challenged before the Delhi
High Court and t h e s e w e r e quashed. The matter has been pendingbefore the
Supreme Court. The government decided, in consultation with CIC, that a
comprehensive set of rules be notified by consolidating the key provisions of
CIC ( Management) Regulations and also the Rules of 2012. Same has been put up in
public domain for comments."
He clarified
that contrary to a newspaper report, RTI fee and word limit remained the same.
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