Recent amendments to the Right to Information Act will have a profound impact on the autonomy and independence of the Information Commission. Discuss.
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Tamil Nadu withdraws order that kept its law and order department out of RTI · 28 September 2026 · Covers one part · use it in the body
Use it to state the 2019 amendment's change and show another, parallel route of RTI dilution: removing whole departments from the Act through exemptions.
- The RTI (Amendment) Act, 2019 allowed the Central Government to prescribe the tenure and salaries of Central and State Information Commissioners.
- On 21 September 2026 Tamil Nadu used Section 24(4) to exempt its Public (Law and Order) Department as an intelligence and security organisation, withdrawing the order on 27 September after criticism.
- Suggest empowering State Information Commissions to review Section 24(4) notifications, and preferring record-by-record Section 8 exemptions to blanket exclusions.