Pune: Activists slam Centre´s move on RTI (Amendment) Bill 2019, say will make law another ...
(WorldNews India)

Former information commissioners and RTI activists have come out strongly against the move by the central government to amend the RTI Act, 2005. Advertising The move that allows the government to fix the term of service of the information commissioners, they said, will end up making the law `another toothless tiger`. Enacted in 2005, the RTI Act has defined both the time of service and the status of information commissioners. Once appointed, information commissioners - both state and central - will have a tenure of five years or till they attain the age of 65 years (which ever comes first). Also, salaries of the central information...