RTI News

The Union Ministry of Personnel and Training has sent an order to all state governments and Central government offices, asking them to submit annual property returns of all the IAS/IPS and Group ‘A’ officers which will then be put in the public ...

The RTI Activists Federation of Punjab have highlighted "100 strange and shocking Orders of State Information Commission Punjab" through a booklet, launched here.

The stated objective for bringing out the booklet was to underline the problems faced by the RTI activists of the state in effective implementation of the Act.
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WHAT ARE THE ACTUAL CREAMY LAYER CRITERIA?
Actually there are 6 rules in creamy layer criteria (Central) Dated 08.09.1993, like rule of ‘post’ for service category & rule of ‘land’ for farmers instead of having a single annual income rule. As per these 6 rules mainly the sons & daughters of followings are creamy layer-

(I) V.V.I.Ps.- President, Vice-President, Judges of the Supreme ...

MUMBAI: Each year, the joint entrance exam result buries the Indian Institutes of Technology under the Right To Information applications and legal cases. Lakhs of those who don't make it to the IITs demand copies of their answer scripts, forcing the engineering colleges to usher in transparency.

For years, every RTI application was rejected, every court case favoured the IITs. For the first time now, the 2011 edition of the JEE will put out scanned copies of every student's answer sheet. The exam will be held on Sunday and it will be taken by 4.85 lakh candidates , up from last year's 4.72 lakh.
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The government will now have to disclose the specific reasons for appointing senior bureaucrats in different ministries and departments and the basis of reaching such a conclusion. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has been disclosing minutes of the meeting where the decision to post bureaucrats in senior positions were taken but had refused to divulge the file notings and other documents related to the appointment.
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