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Copy of NOC issued to an Airman (IAF) was denied claiming that it is 'Personal Information' the disclosure of which would cause unwarranted invasion to the privacy of the individual - CIC: Denial u/s 8(1)(j) upheld; No larger public interest disclosed

PIO informed the Appellant that the information sought is not available in their office and transferred the application to Bangalore Development Authority u/s 6(3) - Appellant did not approach the transferee Public Authority - CIC: No intervention needed

Transfer of pension to wrong account - Neither the RTI application nor the first appeal was responded by the respondent, on account of non-receipt - Respondent furnished a reply which the appellant claimed to have not received - CIC: Provide revised reply

Information regarding home loan in which appellant’s mother, i.e., late Smt. V Jain was a guarantor - CIC: Information was related to third party property loan (Mr. Pradeep Jain and Smt. V Jain), and both are alive; No public activity or interest involved

Total number of accounts opened by PNB under different welfare schemes - Delay of almost two years - CIC: PIO is cautioned and advised to strengthen its RTI portal to enable effective and timely disposal of RTI applications and first appeals in future

CIC: The issue raised by the Appellant remains unanswered due to non-availability of any material information in the records; Advisory u/s 25(5) issued to the Office of Insurance Ombudsman to look into such cases in larger public interest

Vijai Sharma and K V Chowdary appointed as CIC and CVC respectively

Is the Mysore Police Commissioner’s office coming up without plan approval?

No action taken against the illegal massage parlours or spas in Goa

Are there norms about the fee a school should charge and the facilities it offers?

There is only 1 primary health centre per 28 villages of UP

Services of all OSDs / Consultants terminated by Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai

Are the state-funded ‘public trust institutions’ obligated to provide ‘information’ under the RTI Act?

Takeaways from the Supreme Court verdict on the Electoral Bond Scheme

We will know, we will live - RTI

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DOPT CIRCULAR 2017

O.M. No. and Date	Subject
No. 14/6/2017-IR 27/12/2017	Annual Programme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration.
No. 14/6/2017-IR 27/12/2017	Annual Programme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Administrative Training Institute, West Bengal.
No. 14/6/2017-IR 27/12/2017	Annual Programme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration.
No. 14/6/2017-IR 27/12/2017	Annual Programme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Administrative Training Institute, West Bengal.
No. 14/6/2017-IR 27/12/2017	Annual Programme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Administrative Training Institute, West Bengal.
No. 14/6/2017-IR 27/12/2017	Annual Programme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration.
No. 14/3/2017-IR 09/10/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Telangana Information Commission.
No. 14/3/2017-IR 06/10/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Nagaland Information Commission.
No. 14/3/2017-IR 06/10/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Tamil Nadu Information Commission.
No. 14/3/2017-IR 06/10/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Sikkim Information Commission.
No. 14/3/2017-IR 06/10/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Uttarakhand Information Commission.
No. 14/3/2017-IR 06/10/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Mizoram Information Commission.
No. 11/01/2017-IR 29/09/2017	Chief Information Officers (CIOs) e-Governance Champions Training Program (eGCP), scheduled from November 6th - 18th,2017.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 25/09/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to HP Institute of Public Administration, Shimla.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 25/09/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to HP Institute of Public Administration, Shimla.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 25/09/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to HP Institute of Public Administration, Shimla.
14/4/2017-IR 19/09/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration, Pune.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 19/09/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration, Pune.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 19/09/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration, Pune.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 19/09/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Dr. MCR Human Resource Development Institute, Telangana.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 19/09/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Dr. MCR Human Resource Development Institute, Telangana.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 19/09/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Dr. MCR Human Resource Development Institute, Telangana.
No. 1/1/2013-IR 13/09/2017	Hiring of Personnel for Project Monitoring Unit.
NA 11/09/2017	Amendment of Recruitment Rules, 2011 for Staff Car Drivers in Central Information Commission
No. 14/3/2017-IR 25/08/2017	RTI Week Celebration for the year 2017.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 07/07/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Acountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Chhattisgarh Academy of Administration, Raipur.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 22/06/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Institute of Management in Government, Kerala.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 22/06/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Chhattisgarh Academy of Administration, Raipur.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 22/06/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Chhattisgarh Academy of Administration, Raipur.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 22/06/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Haryana Institute of Public Administration.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 22/06/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Haryana Institute of Public Administration.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 22/06/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Haryana Institute of Public Administration.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 22/06/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Institute of Management in Government, Kerala.
No. 14/4/2017-IR 22/06/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to Manipur Information Commission, Imphal.
No. 1/1/2013-IR (pt.) 14/06/2017	Securing the Personal information including Aadhar No. in RTI Applications/ Appeals in compliance to Aadhar Act, 2016 and Information Technical Act, 2000.
No.14/4/2016-IR 30/05/2017	Summer Internship Programme on RTI for Law Students for the year 2017-reg
No. 14/4/2016-IR 02/05/2017	Inviting applications for Summer Internship Programme on RTI for Law Students for the year 2017- Extension of last date till 11.05.2017
F. No14/3/2017 -IR 26/04/2017	Inviting proposals for grants to ATIs and AICs under the various components of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in government through effective implementation of Right to Information Act for the year 2017-18
No. 14/4/2016-IR 18/04/2017	Inviting applications for Summer Internship Programme on RTI for Law Students for the year 2017.
No. 1/5/2016-IR 13/04/2017	Framing RTI Rules, 2017 in supersession of RTI Rules, 2012 - extension of last date for receiving comments regardings.
NA 13/04/2017	Study report of RTI Fellowship Programme, 2015 - Report by Dharanesha S T
NA 13/04/2017	Study report of RTI Fellowship Programme, 2015 - Report by Susanta Kumar Mallick
NA 13/04/2017	Study report of RTI Fellowship Programme, 2015 - Report by Sanjeev
No. 1/5/2016 05/04/2017	Framing of RTI Rules, 2017 in Supersession of RTI Rules, 2012
No. 1/5/2016-IR 31/03/2017	Framing RTI Rules, 2017 in supersession of RTI Rules, 2012 - comments regarding.
No. 14/13/2016-IR 17/03/2017	Centrally sponsored scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to UP, ATI.
No. 1/Misc.Matters/2016-IR(Pt2) 03/03/2017	Training of Nodal Officers of the Public Authorities for alignment with RTI Online Portal scheduled to be held on 8th March, 2017 at CSOI, Vinay Marg, New Delhi from 11.00 AM to 2.00 PM.
No. 14/13/2016-IR 06/02/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to YASHADA. Pune.
No. 1/Misc. Matters/2016/IR (Pt-II) 01/02/2017	Training/workshop on RTIonline portal for the Nodal Officers of 137 Public Authorities (who did not attend training in January, 2017) to be held on 16th and 17th February, 2017 at CSOI, Vinay Marg, New Delhi as per Annexure I and II.
No. 14/13/2016-IR 16/01/2017	Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through Effective Implementation of RTI Act - Release of funds to HCM RIPA, Jaipur.
No. 1/23/2012-IR 13/01/2017	Training on modules of PFMS for Centrally Sponsored RTI Plan Scheme on RTI - Submission of details as required by PrAO and O/o PFMS.
No. 1/Misc. Matters/2016/IR(pt-II) 06/01/2017	Training/Workshop for Nodal Officers of the defulting/absentees of 43 Public Authorities on RTI online Portal at CSOI, Vinay Marg, New Delhi on 20th January, 2017 from 11.00 AM to 2.00PM.
No. 1/MISC.Matters/2016/IR(pt.-II) 04/01/2017	Training/Workshop on RTI Online Portal for the nodal officers of the defaulting / absentees Public Authorities for alignment with the RTI online portal on 20th January, 2017 at CSoI, Vinay Marg.