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Posted on 24 February 2012
Dear Gupta,
Yes, I accept, there are some mistakes and court procedings w.r.t. to ICWAI, they are there with CA too (beacuse CAs scope and public activities are more compared to CMA, there may be more procedings against CAs or ICAI).
But the one that you are reffering is not specific to ICWAI. I can post the correct info
New Delhi: Bodies which conduct competitive examinations should change their "old mindset" and get tuned to the RTI Act to disclose information to candidates, the Supreme Court has said.
A Bench of justices R V Raveendran and A K Patnaik turned down the plea of Institute of Chartered Accountants which pleaded that an authority should be appointed under the transparency law to screen application of information seekers in view of increasing number of people approaching under the RTI Act.
"Examining bodies like ICAI should change their old mindset and tune them to the new regime of disclosure of maximum information. Public authorities should realise that in an era of transparency, previous practices of unwarranted secrecy have no longer a place," the bench said.
"Accountability and prevention of corruption are possible only through transparency. Attaining transparency no doubt would involve additional work with reference to maintaining records and furnishing information," it said.
The court said that additional workload is not a defence for not maintaining information and the institute can approach the government in this regard. "Additional workload is not a defence. If there are practical insurmountable difficulties, it is open to examining bodies to bring them to the notice of the government for consideration so that any changes to the Act can be deliberated upon," the court said.
"As the examining bodies have not been exempted, and as the examination processes of examining bodies have not been exempted, the examining bodies will have to gear themselves to comply with the provisions of the RTI Act," the courtsaid.
The court passed the order on an appeal filed by ICAI challenging the Bombay High Court oder which had directed it to provide information under the RTI Act.
POSTED BY M A G P AT MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 05, 2011
https://www.indianexpress.com/news/examining-bodies-should-get-tuned-to-rti-act/841394/
https://www.financialexpress.com/news/examining-bodies-should-get-tuned-to-rti-act-sc/841394/
https://importanceofrtiact.blogspot.com/2011/09/examining-bodies-should-get-tuned-to.html
Full details can be seen here
https://www.isidelhi.org.in/hrnews/isidownload/Nhrc/Rti/RTI-2011.pdf