Financial Express: New Delhi: Monday, November
26, 2018.
Nearly 2,000 public authorities come
under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, Minister of State for Department of
Personnel and Training (DOP&T) said on Sunday. “In the last four-and-a-half
years, the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has brought most of
the public authorities under the purview of the RTI Act, which is in keeping
with the commitment to ensure maximum transparency in the working of these
institutions. When the government came in, there were very few public
authorities under the purview of RTI Act, but a fast-track process was
initiated to make the RTI more effective and more inclusive,” he said.
The DOP&T is the nodal department for
the RTI and Central Information Commission.
Singh made these observations when the Chief Information Commissioner
R.K. Mathur called on him earlier in the day.
In addition, Singh noted that the filing
of RTI applications has been made more convenient with the use of latest
technology. “There is now a portal and an App, as a result of which any citizen
can file an RTI from his mobile phone, at any time of the day or night, and
from anywhere.”
The disposal time of the RTI application
received in the Central Information Commission has been drastically reduced,
the Minister said, and added that pendency too has come down.
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