RTI portal: HC orders notice to TN govt
TNN | Updated: Aug 13, 2017, 12:11 AM IST
Chennai: Asserting the need for an online RTI portal for every state government, an MBBS student has approached the Madras high court seeking direction to the Tamil Nadu government to launch an online portal for online RTI queries.
"Creation of online RTI portal would develop transparency, would reduce the burden of public information officers, reduce paper work and save public money along with transit delay by applying and receiving information," said Mohamed Khader Meeran, who is pursuing MBBS at Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Maharashtra.
"Creation of online RTI portal would develop transparency, would reduce the burden of public information officers, reduce paper work and save public money along with transit delay by applying and receiving information," said Mohamed Khader Meeran, who is pursuing MBBS at Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Maharashtra.
Admitting the PIL, a division bench of Justices M Sathyanarayanan and N Seshasayee ordered notice to the state government returnable by September 4.
According to the petitioner, though there is a provision for online portal under the Right to Information Act, all the states including Tamil Nadu have not developed such portals. The only exemption is Maharashtra, which has made their own RTI portal without any assistance from the central government. TNN
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