DVAC comes under RTI Act:: info panel

Jeeva, 13 November 2009

CHENNAI: In a landmark ruling, the Tamil Nadu State
Information Commission has held that the
 Right To Information (RTI) Act would apply to the
Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC),
 nullifying the effect of a State government order of
August 26 last year exempting the DVAC and the State
Vigilance Commission from the purview of the Act.

The decision of the Commission has come as a shot
in the arm for RTI activists, who have been campaigning
 for greater transparency among several government
departments in furnishing information.

The State Information Commission directed DVAC to
furnish within two weeks the number of investigations
completed, the number of those convicted
from 2003-04 to 2007-08, and their names and
designations to RTI applicant V Madhav, a resident of Porur.