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This is History (894) Senior Congress leaders to contest for Lok Sabha ? Crowd with Shivraj Singh stuns BJP High Command ? Politics free Campuses Process to select next Central Command Army Commander starts 38 Bihar cadre IAS officers on Central deputation D. Bala Venkatesh Varma appointed next Ambassador to Russian Federation Saket Kumar relieved to join as Private Secretary to Manoj Sinha NHRC to have one more Member JCIT K Ravi resigns Will Assam’ CS get extension ? Lt Gen I S Ghuman appointed DCOAS (IS & T) Rahul Chhabra appointed next High Commissioner to Kenya Read All Whispers....	Partha Satpathy appointed Ambassador to Ukraine 27 SC Collegium’ recommendations pending with Law Ministry IMF wants Govt to reduce its stake in banking system Ashim Kumar Ghosh joins as Director (Prod), BVFCL Vinay Ranjan takes over as Director (Pers), ECL Official orders of Madhavan yet to be issued Jagdish Prasad Gupta selected as Director (CP&P), Hindustan Shipyard Ltd Anshu Prakash empanelled as Secretary in GoI N K Bose appointed Asst. Manager(S & T), KMRCL Ramchandran appointed Asst. DG, UIDAI, Bengaluru Raj Kumar Maharaj appointed as PMG, Lucknow region Ramchandani appointed Hon. Consul of Consulate of India, Ouagadougou N V Joseph posted to Western Railway R M Patil transferred to Northern Railway Read All Whispers....	Corporate Headlines A E Stanley appointed President & MD of Airbus India Saravanan is CMD of Madras Fertilizers Pandit is Chairman of IEC Education Jayapal is Independent Director of DRA Consultants Ms Chawla is Independent Director of Mahaan Foods Ms Lohia appointed CS of Orient Press Bharadwaj quits as Whole-time Director of Gratex Industries Sharma is Addl Independent Dir of G S Auto International Read All News... DEBATE – What will be the political scenario in the country after 2 What people say about us! In lunches and dinners in Delhi, whispers is discussed every day. An IAS officer FORUM DEBATE When were the bureaucrats free from the clutches of the politicians ? P N Nair RTI Contradiction in the reply of PIO and FAA Information regarding entry and departure timings of a particular vehicle as per the record book of a toll plaza was sought by the appellant. The respondent was absent at the hearing despite valid and timely notice of the CIC for which warning was issued to the concerned respondent PIO and Project Director, National Highways Authority of India. The CIC observed that the concerned PIO should desist from committing such lapse in future. The PIO claimed that relevant records are not available whereas the First Appellate Authority claimed that the sought for information is a third party information, hence, the same cannot be provided u/s 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act. The PIO and Project Director, NHAI was directed to state on affidavit to the CIC that the information provided on these points is factually correct, based on records and nothing is hidden therein. Comments The PIO should either take a prior permission of the CIC before abstaining himself from the hearing or he should send a proper representative to attend the hearing before the CIC after obtaining due permission from the CIC for doing so and after ensuring that the authorised representative is briefed appropriately. Citation: Dilip Joshi v. National Highways Authority of India in File No.: CIC/ NHAIN /A/2017/102258, Date of hearing: 20.03.2018, 13.07.2018 Dr. Anuradha Verma (dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in) is the co-author of the books: RIGHT TO INFORMATION – LAW AND PRACTICE and PIO’s guide to RTI. Her other articles can be read at the website of RTI Foundation of India at http://www.rtifoundationofindia.com/ INTERVEW Maharashtra attracts maximum number of foreign tourists in India- says P J Nainduttia MD MTDC

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