2015 (12) TMI 636

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....nder Singh Grewal, J. 1. This petition has been treated as suo motu petition in public interest after the Single Bench of this Court while hearing S.B.Civil Writ Petition No.8381/2014 was required to refer to the Rajasthan Evaluation Service Rules, 1979 which were not available in the library of the Court. The Single Bench was informed by the counsel for the parties that copy of these Rules is ne....

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....es has been annexed as Annexure-A. He has also drawn our attention to Annexure-B wherein Rules relating to Department of Personnel after 1996 have been uploaded on the website of the Department of Personnel. It is further submitted that amendments made after 1999 in all the Rules have also been uploaded on the concerned website and list of such amendments have been annexed as Annexure-C. Lastly, i....

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.... take steps in accordance with the requirements of clause (b) of sub-section (1) to provide as much information suo-motu to the public at regular intervals through various means of communications, including internet, so that the public have the minimum resort to the use of the Act to obtain information. It is also provided in sub-section (3) of Section 4 that for the purposes of sub-section (1), e....

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....uld defeat the purpose of the enactment of the Right to Information Act which is meant to bring transparency in the functioning of the Government and public authorities. 7. We, therefore, direct the Chief Secretary, Government of Rajasthan to ensure that the Rules framed by the Governor of Rajasthan in exercise of power under proviso to Article 309 of the Constitution of India for various departm....