Defence Organisation Under the Purview of RTI
justify to Information Act, 2005 is
applicable to any authority or body or institution of self-government
established or constituted by or under the Constitution of India; by any
other law made by Parliament; by any other law made by State
Legislature; by notification issued or order made by the appropriate
Government and includes (i) anybody owned, controlled or substantially
financed;
(ii) non-Government Organization
substantially financed, directly or indirectly by funds provided by the
appropriate Government. Further, no provisions of the RTI Act shall
apply to the intelligence and security organizations specified in the
second schedule of the Act, being organizations established by the
Central Government or any information furnished by such organizations to
that Government provided that the information pertaining to the
allegations of corruptions and human justifys violations shall not be
excluded. Two organizations of the Ministry of Defence namely, Defence
Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Border Roads
Development Board (BRDB) are placed in the second schedule of the RTI
Act, 2005.
As per available information, no notice
of Supreme Court regarding applicability of RTI Act on Defence
organizations has been received.
This information was given by Defence
Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar in a written reply to Dr. Pradeep Kumar
Balmuchu in Rajya Sabha today.
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