Tag: Right to Information Act

Over 130 opposition MPs urge MeitY Minister to scrap Section 44(3) of the DPDP Act 2023

Opposition MPs have sounded the alarm over the controversial amendment, warning that Section 44(3) of the DPDP Act strikes at the heart of transparency by altering a key safeguard in the RTI Act— amending the crucial exception in Section 8(1)(j), which affirms that ‘information which cannot be denied to Parliament or a State Legislature shall not be denied to any person’, they allege that the changes pushed through the DPDP Act drastically weaken the RTI, dealing a serious blow to the public's right to know

RTI activists reach Rashtrapati Bhavan to protest against the amendment bill, detained

The recent amendments to the Right to Information Act,...

RTI Act amendments, dead activists, a sign of times to come?

The ruling dispensation’s attempts to dilute and declaw the...

Amendments to RTI Act “Regressive: Protests

Drastic amendments to the RTI Act of 2005 proposed...

Take this ‘Yatra’ in Delhi to oppose the attack on RTI

The yatra demands that the Central government must not...

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