Economic Times: Lucknow: Sunday, July 16, 2017.
The Prime
Minister's Office (PMO) has denied information on various expenses incurred in
foreign trips by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his predecessor Manmohan
Singh, terming the query "vague", an RTI activist said.
Nutan Thakur
told IANS on Saturday that she had requested the documents from the PMO on June
16.
Thakur had
asked for details of the expenses incurred on various arrangements made for all
the foreign trips made by Modi and Manmohan Singh from January 2010 onwards.
On Thursday,
Central Public Information Officer and Under Secretary in PMO Parveen Kumar,
denying the details, said that the information sought was "too vague and
wide".
In her poser
to the PMO under the Right To Information Act, Thakur had asked for copies of
all files, including notes and various letters and documents exchanged between
the PMO and different offices.
Having denied
the RTI, Kumar, however, informed Thakur that for the purpose of section 19 of
the RTI Act 2005, Syed Ekram Rizvi, Director PMO, South Block, was the
appellate authority.
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