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Cabinet withdraws draft amendments to RTI

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Press Trust of India New Delhi

After this, all file notings can be made public except those explicitly exempted, such as the ones related to national security, privacy and protection of commercial interest.

"The Cabinet has decided to withdraw the amendments," said a source privy to the deliberations at the Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

In 2006, the Cabinet had approved the amendments but they did not make it to the Parliament because of the stiff opposition.

  

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First Published: Nov 01 2012 | 12:25 PM IST

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