New RTI Rules Notified

• The Union government has notified new rules under the Right to Information Act.
• It reduced the tenure of information commissioners from five years to three.
• Gave the government the discretion to decide on “conditions of service” for which no express provisions are made in the rules.
• The Chief Information Commissioner’s salary has been fixed at Rs 2.5 lakh and an information commissioner’s at Rs2.25 lakh.
• The government had been given the “power to relax” the provisions of the rules.

Source : Civil Services Chronicle Online, November, 2019