Correction by Supreme Court

September 13, 2012:

S.C's  Direction:

 " the chief information commissioner at the Center or state level shall only be a person who is or has been a Chief Justice of the high court or a judge of the Supreme Court"

People like me were little agitated after reading such a direction but luckily the court's bench comprising Justice A.K Patnaik and Justice A.K Sikri erased the afore-said direction on September 3, 2013. The court can hardly legislate on a subject in which its fraternity has a prima facie vested interest. As a person interested in transparency and impartial judgment in the working of RTI Act, I was advocating the posting of a Chief Information Commissioner from a different state as in the case of the Chief Justice of a high court - a good convention practiced by  the country so far but unfortunately the suggestion fell on the deaf ears of Dr Manmohan Singh for the last 6-7 years. 

Let the new government at the centre take note of this suggestion after a year at least!