The Central Information Commission last week directed Reserve Bank of India to provide the minutes of the board meetings for the last two years on a CD to Kishanlal Mittal, who sought the information under the Right to Information Act. If any of the details are exempt under the RTI Act they may be severed. The commission also directed RBI to disclose minutes of its meetings on its website. It shall be done by April 1, 2012 of all board meetings held thereafter. When Mittal asked for these details, initially, RBI resisted it stating that the papers were “voluminous, spread over several files and concern various departments of RBI. The task of screening and compiling them would be extremely laborious and time consuming. As this would disproportionately divert our resources, we are not under obligation to provide them.”
BS
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Very well done, Sir.
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