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'Pause, review, repeal RTI-destroying amendment'
Millennium Post Kolkata
|Kolkata 14 April 2025
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said that deletion of the proviso in the RTI Act that recognises citizens' right to information as being at par with that of legislators is "completely unwarranted", and urged IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to pause, review, and repeal the amendment made to the original legislation of 2005.
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Ramesh's assertion came days after Vaishnaw responded to the Congress leader's earlier letter in which he had expressed concern over Section 44 (3) of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023 which "prohibits" sharing personal information under the Right to Information Act 2005.
Vaishnaw had responded to Ramesh, saying that personal details that are subject to public disclosure under various laws will continue to be disclosed under the RTI Act after the implementation of the new data protection rule.
This story is from the Kolkata 14 April 2025 edition of Millennium Post Kolkata.
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