CIC appointment: SC rejects pleas to make shortlist public; govt to finalise names in 3 weeks | India News

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court brushed aside on Monday pleas for making public names of candidates shortlisted by the selection panel for the posts of chief information commissioner and information commissioners after the Centre said the process would be completed in three weeks. “The selection panel comprising the PM, leader of the opposition and a Union […]

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RTI report card highlights overwhelming presence of retired govt officials as information commissioners

NEW DELHI: A ‘report card’ on the working of information commissions under the Right To Information Act shows that 57% of the approximately 510 commissioners for whom background information was available were retired govt officials.Nearly 15% information commissioners were lawyers or former judges (11% were advocates or from the judicial service and 4% were retired […]

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