Mayank Aggarwal / DNATuesday, June 15, 2010 0:10 IST
New Delhi: The central information commission (CIC) has directed the Lok Sabha secretariat to post all information regarding portraits/statues of national leaders, parliamentarians and martyrs installed in the House on its website within six months.
The direction came in response to an RTI query.
In a decision dated June 11, chief information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah held that it “stands established that the record of minutes of committee meetings from the period 1947 to 2000 is bulky and inspecting each to cull out information regarding decisions on requests to install statues and portraits will, in the present system of record-keeping, be next to impossible”.
However, “installation of statues/portraits, the reasons for approval of the same and other details, as sought by the appellant in the present case, are matters not only of public interest but matters on which the public has a right to be informed,” he said.
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