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The central information commissioner has ordered the secretary of the ministry of defence to organise basic training for its central public information officers (CPIOs) due to their deliberate dereliction of duty in disseminating information ....
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5 We have rarely heard of any recoveries of penalties slammed on public information officers (PIOs), but this one surely takes the cake!
Neeraj Kumar Gupta, the central information commissioner, in an order dated 19 February 2021, states, “If the Central Information Commission (CIC) starts imposing penalty on the PIOs in every other case, without any justification, it would instil a sense of constant apprehension in those functioning as PIOs in the public authorities, and would put undue pressure on them.
They would not be able to fulfil their statutory duties under the Right to Information (RTI) Act with an independent mind and with objectivity.” ....
9 Social media, several organisations and media continue to raise questions about the structure, accountability and transparency of the Prime Minister s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) which is being labelled as a private trust by every government authority. Amidst all this, a query filed under Right to Information (RTI) shows that this private trust was given the .gov.in domain that is reserved for government authorities.
Responding to an appeal filed by Commodore Lokesh Batra (retd) under the RTI Act, the National Informatics Centre (NIC), which manages the .gov.in domains, says, .the domain pmcares.gov.in was allotted to PMO (apex body) complying with the guidelines for allocation of registration at the third level under .gov.in domain zone dated 23 October 2019 , issued by the internet governance division, ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY). ....