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61 Bar councils under RTI Act
purview: CIC
The bar councils are open to public scrutiny under the Right
To Information (RTI) Act and should set-up a mechanism to facilitate processing
of applications directed to them under the transparency law, the Central
Information Commission has held.
The Bar Council of India and Bar Council of Punjab and
Haryana had rejected several RTI applications saying though they were set-up
under the Advocates Act, 1961 they did not get direct or indirect funding from
the government, hence are out of the purview of the RTI Act.
However, the commission in a recent order held that the
councils might not have been financed by the central or state governments but
they were setup under an Act passed by Parliament and hence they are covered by
the RTI act.
(Source:
www.dnaindia.com, dated 19.01.2010)
