'RTI query should be placed before Speaker'

17 Jun, 2007 l 1753 hrs ISTlPTI The Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has recommended that an RTI application, questioning among other things, the reasons for permitting MPs to draw remuneration even when the House was adjourned, should be brought to the notice of the Lok Sabha Speaker. "We wish to commend C P Rai's (applicant) conscientiousness as a citizen of the world's most vibrant democracy, reflected in his concern on the functioning of India's supreme representative body, the Lok Sabha of India," said Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah. "We, therefore, recommend that his application with its expression of apprehensions and recommendations be placed before Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha for his information," Habibullah said in a recent decision. The CIC's decision came on an RTI appeal, moved against the Lok Sabha (LS) Secretariat, inquiring among other issues, the reasons for which its members were permitted to draw remuneration even when the House stood adjourned. The Commission, however, dismissed the appeal on grounds that the queries raised by Rai, in his application, were more in the form of suggestions and recommendations. In his RTI application filed, on September 13 last year, with the LS Secretariat, the applicant had also inquired on the setting up of the Parliamentary Committee which passed a resolution on the issue of its members holding various offices of profit. The Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) of the LS Secretariat had, thereafter, forwarded Rai's query pertaining to its resolutions passed on the office of profit issue to the Ministry of Law and Justice.

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