Despite CIC's order, no RTI office for Advani till date
Agencies
Posted: Nov 16, 2009 at 1713 hrs IST
New Delhi Disregarding the directions of the CIC, the Lok Sabha
Secretariat has not helped in setting-up the RTI office for the Leader
of Opposition despite repeated letters from L K Advani's office urging
it to treat the matter as "Top Priority."
"The Lok Sabha secretariat must provide all necessary assistance to
the office of Leader of Opposition to ensure establishment of an
office in accordance with ...the RTI Act 2005," Advani's secretary
Deepak Chopra said in the letter written to Secretary General Lok
Sabha on November 3 - about a month after the directive from CIC.
He had also attached a copy of the order passed by the Central
Information Commission which declared the office of leader of
opposition to be covered under the RTI Act.
The CIC in the order had also instructed the Lok Sabha to provide all
the assistance in setting-up the information office for the Leader of
Opposition as per the requirement of transparency law.
Replying to an RTI query, Chopra informed activist S C Agrawal that
the Lok Sabha Secretariat has been "requested to help us to establish
the information office under the RTI Act" but refused to accept the
attached RTI fee as the reply was in his "capacity as secretary to
Leader of Opposition."
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