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Cabinet Decisions Should be made Public: Chief Information Commissioner

In Kerala, News, Trivandrum
June 22, 2016

 

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Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Information Commissioner Vinson M. Paul has ruled that all state cabinet decisions would come under the purview of the Right to Information Act.

The Chief Information Commissioner said that the government should also consider posting cabinet decisions on the state government website within 48 hours.

The ruling comes in the wake of the present government turning down RTI applications seeking information about the decisions taken at the first cabinet meeting.

Vinson, who was appointed by the former UDF Government just before the elections, had retired from the police service as an officer of DGP rank.