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CIC serves show-cause notice to PMO

By The Assam Tribune

NEW DELHI, Sept 6 � The Central Information Commission has issued a show-cause notice to the Prime Minister�s Office regarding �non-compliance� of its order relating to disclosure of Union ministers� assets.

�The Commission has directed the CPIO in Prime Minister�s Office to dispose complaint within 10 days. ....The appellant has been repeatedly approaching the Commission stating...That the requested information has not been provided,� the Commission said in its notice.

It directed the Central Public Information Officer to �submit an action taken report specifically in regard to the non-compliance of the order� by September 10.

The case relates to S C Agrawal who sought to know from the Cabinet Secretariat the information on assets, wealth and income of all Union ministers. The Commission had on June 7 this year directed the PMO to disclose the assets of Union ministers after getting clearance from the Lok Sabha Speaker and the Rajya Sabha Chairman. � PTI

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