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UNESCO launches 2021 survey on public access to information
Using Sustainable development indicator 16.10.2, the new survey will track progress on how states are adopting and implementing legally binding guarantees for public access to information.
The 2021 survey on Access to Information will be launched during the World Bank online consultation for the next “World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives”.
Previous surveys by UNESCO have raised awareness that states as the duty-bearers responsible for ensuring access to information and data are often themselves in a position of having very limited data about performance of the very institutions charged with this duty.
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Three posts of information commissioners vacant in CIC: Govt
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Last Updated: Mar 17, 2021, 03:21 PM IST
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Explaining the process of appointment of information commissioners in the transparency watchdog, the government said applications are invited through open advertisement and then particulars of applicants are tabulated and sent to the search committee (constituted by the prime minister) chaired by the cabinet secretary for shortlisting.
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The number of vacant posts in the secretariat of the Central Information Commission is seven, the minister said, adding that the filling up of posts is a continuous process .
Three posts of information commissioners were lying vacant in the Central Information Commission (CIC), the government said on Wednesday.
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Court, in Jan. 2020, asked Centre to file reply to plea, which contended that RTI Amendment Act of 2019 and its Rules cripple CIC’s objectivity, independence.
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Court, in Jan. 2020, asked Centre to file reply to plea, which contended that RTI Amendment Act of 2019 and its Rules cripple CIC’s objectivity, independence.
The Supreme Court on Monday criticised the Union government for having not filed a reply for over a year to a petition by parliamentarian Jairam Ramesh challenging the amendments made to the Right to Information Act.
The court, in January 2020, asked the Centre to file its reply to Mr. Ramesh’s plea that the amendments gave the government unparalleled powers to dictate the tenure, salaries and service conditions of the Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners according to its “whims and fancies”.