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Wife has right to know hubby’s salary: CIC New Delhi: Wives of government servants have a “right” to know salary particulars of their husbands and these details should also be made public by their offices as mandated under suo-moto disclosure clause of the RTI Act, the Central information Commission has held. Information Commissioner M Sridhar Acharyulu said every spouse has a right to information about the salary particulars of the other especially for the purpose of maintenance. “More so, wife has a right to know the salary particulars of the husband, who is an employee of the public authority,” he said. The commissioner further said that the details about a government employee’s salary is no third party information and these have to be voluntarily disclosed under Section 4(1)(b)(x) of the RTI Act. He said the salary paid to the public authority is sourced from the tax paid by the people in general and it has to be disclosed mandatorily under the RTI section. ...

Proposal for an amendment to the Right to Information Act, 2005 in the light of the decision of Central Information Commission dated 03.06.2013 in the case of political parties. No. 1/13/2013 - IR Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Department of Personnel and Training North Block, New Delhi- 110001. Dated the 23rd  July, 2013 NOTE FOR THE CABINET Subject: Proposal for an amendment to the Right to Information Act, 2005 in the light of the decision of Central Information Commission dated 03.06.2013 in the case of political parties. 1. INTRODUCTION:  1.1  The Right to_Information Act, 2005-  (the RTI Act) provides right to information to all the citizens of India and casts obligation on the public authorities to provide information which is held by or under the control of such public authorities. A public authority is defined in the RTI Act itself. Expanding the scope of definition of the Public authority, the Central In...

No.1/1/2013-1R Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Department of Personnel & Training North Block, New Delhi Dated: 17/05/2013 OFFICE MEMORANDUM Subject:    Extension of RTI web portal for online filing of RTI application. In continuation of this Department’s O.M. of even number dated 22/04/2013, it is intimated that training to RTI Nodal Officers, RTI Cell officials and NIC/IT personnel attached with Ministries/Departments of Government of India have been completed by DoPT with the help of NIC 2.    It is again requested that training to all the CPIOs and First Appellate Authorities (FAAs) may be provided by the concerned Ministry/Department, through the officials trained by DoPT/NIC. User name/password to all the CPIOs and FAAs are to be provided by RTI Nodal Officers of the concerned Ministry/Department. It is imperative that the RTI Nodal Officers start updating the details of CPIOs/FAAs in the system an...

Department of Personnel and Training published clarification orders on its website regularly for the convenience of  implementing rules as per the provisions. This is the clarifications regarding Right to Information Act, provided like question and answers to easy to understand. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs) ON RTI  (AS ON JANURARY 2012)  Q.1. What is Information?   Information is any material in any form. It includes records,  documents, memos, e-mails, opinions,  advices, press releases, circulars,  orders, logbooks, contracts, reports, papers, samples, models, data  material held in any electronic form. It also includes information relating to  any private body which can be accessed by the public authority under any  law for the time being in force.    Q.2 What is a Public Authority?  A "public authority" is  any authority or body or institution of self  government established or constituted by or under th...