Allahabad: The UPA is fully committed to
ensuring transparency in governance and the proposed
amendments in the Right to Information Act are in no way aimed
at diluting it, Union Minister Prithviraj Chavan said here
on Sunday.
"The proposed amendments in the RTI are aimed at removing
certain legal shortcomings and would in no way render it
ineffective. We are working on certain recommendations from
the Administrative Reforms Commission with additional inputs
from private organisations and NGOs.
"People must not fear that their right to information
would be curtailed," the Minister of State for Public
Grievances told reporters on the sidelines of a function.
Chavan said the government is, "in fact, of the view that
all matters of governance other than those relating to
national security and hence deserving confidentiality should
be made available on respective websites so that people can
get the information required by them without even undergoing
the cumbersome process of filing an RTI application".
Moreover, the UPA will never forget that RTI has been one
of its main achievements and has done a lot to enhance its
credibility among the common people of the country," he said.
Chavan was in Jhalwa, on the outskirts of the city, to
address the concluding session of a function organised by the
Indian Institute for Information Technology-Allahabad.
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