BNLive:
New Delhi: Thursday, November 01, 2012.
Congress
President Sonia Gandhi has forced the Centre to drop its plan to dilute the
Right To Information Act and the announcement is likely to be made in
Thursday's Cabinet meeting. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet his new
cabinet on Thursday for the first time since Sunday's reshuffle.
The
government plans to drop a series of amendments that were aimed at diluting and
weakening the RTI Act. The proposed amendments would have exempted file notings
from being disclosed except in cases of development and social issues. The
amendment also suggested that the exam selection process be exempted from the
RTI ambit.
The dilutions
had also planned to curb providing information about public examination and
evaluation of an individual for appointment in the government. These were
mooted in 2009 but never introduced in Parliament. Sources said that this was
because of opposition from RTI activists and the Sonia Gandhi-headed National
Advisory Council (NAC).
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