Hindustan
Times: New Delhi: Friday, September 28, 2018.
The
central information commission (CIC) has directed the cabinet secretariat and
national security council secretariat (NSCS) to furnish reply to an RTI
applicant seeking to know qualifications of national security advisors
appointed since 1998.
The
Commission has also directed them to respond to the queries of the applicant
seeking copies of procedure, rules, norms, acts or orders based on which
National Security Advisors are selected.
The
application was filed before the Prime Minister’s office (PMO) but it was
transferred to the cabinet secretariat and NSCS for furnishing the response.
The applicant approached the central information commission stating that his
RTI application has been transferred repeatedly from one public authority to
another and no information has been provided to him, chief information
commissioner R K Mathur noted.
The
appellant stated that he has not received any reply from the cabinet
secretariat or NSCS, he said.
“The
CPIO, cabinet secretariat and CPIO, NSCS are directed to give information to
the appellant on the points of the RTI application which were transferred to
them by the CPIO, Prime Minister’s office,” Mathur directed.
The
NSCS was set up during the time of BJP-led NDA Government in 1998 to advise the
PMO on matters of national security and strategic interest.
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