The Lok Sabha Secretariat has refused to provide expenditure details incurred by MPs on their tours and journeys saying it would “disproportionately divert the resources” of the House. In response to an RTI application, the Secretariat said culling out such details is not feasible under provisions of the RTI Act. However, it allowed inspection of travelling allowance and dearness allowance registers by the RTI applicants. The Secretariat has also decided not to proactively disclose assets and liabilities of its MPs on its website as it is not “feasible”, but will provide the information to RTI applicants, it said in a reply under the transparency law. “The information sought by the application with regard to all expenditure incurred on perks and travelling allowances of each MP is not readily available...”
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‘ISI AGENT’ HELD NEAR KANPUR RAIL STATION
age Correspondent
lucknow, Sept. 18
Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Sunday evening arrested a suspected ISI agent near Kanpur central railway station. The arrested, Faizul Rehman, is a resident of Ranchi and the ATS has found several incriminating documents form his possession.
According to a spokesman in the DGP office, a diary containing phone numbers of several ISI officials has been recovered form his possession along with innumerable tickets for journeys to be undertaken by train in the coming weeks.