A school education department official in the RTI reply stated that the West Bengal Board of Primary Education was the competent authority to conduct TET exams in all the districts of Bengal. It also stated that the GTA was not accorded any authority to conduct the TET exam in the GTA area
The response from the Centre for Railway Information Systems under the Right to Information Act further indicates that the financial year of 2022-23 alone earned Rs 560 crore due to the amended norms making it the most profitable year
Indications of the growing maturity of RTI Act users and the increasing willingness of public officials to abide by its provisions are indeed welcome developments.
The new legislation comes after the government last year withdrew a December 11, 2019 bill that had alarmed tech companies like Facebook and Google with its proposals for stringent restrictions on cross-border data flows