The Centre has used its powers given under sub-section (2) of Section 24 of the RTI Act to exempt CERT-In from the purview of the transparency law. Using those powers, the Centre has included CERT-In at serial number 27 in the Second Schedule of the RTI Act.
A source in the DoPT said this means that the Centre may not have to wait for a reference from the state government to act against a pensioner found guilty of grave misconduct or convicted of a serious crime by a Court.
The tenure of Vivek Singh, Officer on Special Duty to Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, has been curtailed with effect from July 17 on personal grounds, an office memorandum by Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) said. The DoPT order dated July 5 mentioned that the Department of Expenditure had issued an […]