Despite the Right to Information Act (RTI) having completed 17 years in India, sometimes, one comes across complete ignorance with which an RTI application is filed. One, which is filled with absurd rhetoric but has reached the desk of the second appeal hearing, compelled the information commissioner to dismiss it last week.
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While there was great hope with the historic August 2011 Supreme Court (SC) judgment, which ordered that copies of answer sheets should be given to students under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, a later SC judgment of 2018 has somewhat diluted the hopes of students who seek them for the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) exams.
President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office to Heeralal Samariya today, who will assume the office of chief information commissioner (CIC) at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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