New RTI Rules Notified
- The Union government has notified new rules under the Right to Information Act.
- It reduced the tenure of information commissioners from five years to three.
- Gave the government the discretion to decide on “conditions of service” for which no express provisions are made in the rules.
- The Chief Information Commissioner’s salary has been fixed at Rs 2.5 lakh and an information commissioner’s at Rs2.25 lakh.
- The government had been given the “power to relax” the provisions of the rules.
Source : Civil Services Chronicle Online, November, 2019