Most ministries, government departments fail to obey transparency directive: CHRI finds

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Most ministries, government departments fail to obey transparency directive: CHRI finds

Oct 13, 2016

Only four central ministries and eight departments have complied with a cabinet secretariat transparency directive to proactively publish monthly summary of their work, a CHRI study has found.

Even as the Right to Information law turned 11, more than 92 percent of central government ministries and 82 percent of government departments have failed to comply with the central secretariat’s directive issued in June. Report