Saturday, January 24, 2009

Parliamentary committee seeks to withdraw writ petition it had filed

Parliamentary Standing committee has urged Indian Supreme court registry not to press the writ petition it had filed in Delhi High Court in the case related to declaration of assets by judges.Pressing the petition would harm the intent of Right to Information Act.

The committee has also made following observations and recommendations:
- it is recommending parliament to do away with application fee for RTI application
- it has asked Public Sector Undertakings to clear backlog in recruitment and promotion in resevations for SC/STs, OBCs and physically challanged.
- It has observed that corrcuption control and vigilance mechanism in banks is doing well upto the level of genral manager. It is now requesting government of indian to take it further up
- The committee held discussions on amendments to Representation of People Act and constitutional amendments on women's reservation

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