Firstpost: New Delhi: Sunday, July 30, 2017.
The Indian
Right to Information (RTI) Act can sometimes inhibit bureaucrats from giving
their honest opinion during the process of decision making, finance and defence
minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday.
"Bureaucrats
are free to render their advice and opinion during the process of decision
making," Jaitley said at an event to release a book written by retired
bureaucrat Omesh Saigal bout his experiences in the Indian Administrative
Service (IAS).
"However,
the Right to Information Act can to some extent create hindrance in this
regard, and civil servants may not feel free to do so, fearing that later his
or her opinion may become public," he added.
In this
regard, the finance minister cited former editor BG Verghese as saying that
advice given by public servants in the course of decision making should not be
made public.
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