Haryana school board to put answer key on website in future
10 Jun, 2012The State Information Commission (SIC) of Haryana has directed the Haryana Board of School Education to make the "answer key" to questions available on its website in respect of the exams held by it.
Hearing an appeal filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act from Anil Kumar who sought the answer key to questions of the Haryana Teacher Eligibility Test, the SIC held that providing the answer key would avoid unnecessary applications for information under the RTI Act.
Earlier, the Haryana Board had denied information on the plea that documents such as OMR sheet of answer book, answer key and question paper are intellectual property/trade secret of Board and are exempt under Section 8(1)(d) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, there shall be no obligation to give any citizen, information including commercial confidence, trade secrets or intellectual property, the disclosure of which would harm the competitive position of a third party, unless the competent authority is satisfied that larger public interest warrants the disclosure of such information; of the RTI Act, 2005.