Chennai: The state information commission has asked applicants not to file pleas in another person’s name without the latter’s consent, under the pretext of maintaining anonymity.“Those expecting the public information officers to remain transparent and furnish the required and correct information under the RTI Act should know the same is expected of them. They too…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat State Information Commission has directed education authorities to protect school principals and head teachers from alleged harassment through the Right to Information (RTI) Act, advising them to approach the police in cases where the law is allegedly misused to pursue personal disputes.The direction came in a July 16 order while deciding two…
Chennai: A Right to Information (RTI) application by a 66-year-old retired professor has brought to light how his private patta land in Kanyakumari district had been mistakenly classified as a temple property in the (HR&CE) department’s online ITMS database. The State Information Commission has now ordered a departmental inquiry and a show-cause notice proposing the…
Panaji: The State Information Commission has disposed of an appeal under the RTI Act after the Candolim panchayat provided an RTI applicant information dating back to three decades ago.In 2025, Nazario Paul Savio D’Souza sought information under the RTI Act with regard to a building in Candolim from the panchayat. When he was not satisfied…
Pulled up for non-compliance of orders Chennai: Tamil Nadu State Information Commission pulled up the revenue officers of Sholinganallur taluk and South Chennai revenue divisional office for non-compliance of the commission’s orders even after a year in connection with different second appeals and complaint petitions.Information commissioner P Thamarai Kannan (since retired), in his orders dated…
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat Information Commission (GIC) has directed that documents such as the FIR, panchnama, FSL report, inquest panchnama, postmortem report, and related records be supplied free of cost to insurance agents and accident victims.The order was given in a case where an agent of an insurance company had requested the Kamrej police station for…
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Chennai: Arappor Iyakkam, a city-based anti-corruption organisation, has demanded Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University (TNTEU) to implement the directions of the state information commission and publish the bio-data of all teaching staffers of all 680 affiliated colleges on its website.Arappor Iyakkam, which had exposed discrepancies in some engineering colleges with fake list of professors to…
Times News NetworkAhmedabad: The Gujarat high court has dismissed a petition seeking original documents from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda under the RTI Act, stating that supplying original documents was not within the purview of the central public information officer (CPIO).The petition was filed by Himanshu Parmar, who sought information and further disclosure under…
