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What has happened?

• The Central Information Commission on Tuesday issued show-cause notices to the Central Public Information Officers(CPIOs) of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, National Informatics Centre and National E-Governance Division(NeGD),
• To show reasons as to why penalty u/s 20 of the Right To Information Act should not be imposed on them
• For prima facie obstruction of information and providing an evasive reply on an RTI application related to Arogya Setu App.

• The CIC also asked NIC to explain that when in the Aarogya Setu website,
• It is mentioned that the platform was designed, developed and hosted by it,
• Then how is it that they do not have any information about creation of the App.

Why CIC issued the notice?

• The development comes in a complaint filed by one Saurav Das, stating that
• The relevant authorities, e. NIC, National E-Governance Division (NeGD) and Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY),
• Had failed to furnish information about the process of creation of Aarogya Setu App and other information relating to its creation.
• He submitted that the RTI was filed with the NIC, which stated that, It “does not hold the information” relating to the App’s creation, Which is very surprising since it is the App’s developer.

• Abhishek Singh, CEO of MyGov and Digital India Corporation has claimed that there is no confusion amongst government ministries as to who created the Arogya Setu app.
• The application was created by the NIC and the Information Technology Ministry in partnership with a private entity.
• The NIC is chiefly responsible for designing government websites,
• Even though the Arogya Setu website claims that it was developed by the NIC in association with the information technology

About arogya setu

• Arogya Setu is a contact tracing app, that was branded by the central government as a key tool to fight Covid-19 in India.
• The app seems to have replaced the Corona Kavach app that MeiTY had brought out earlier.

Q) Which of the following statements regarding Central Information Commission is correct?

1. It is headed by the Chief Information Commissioner along with 20 Information Commissioners.
2. The Chief Information Commissioner holds the office for 6 years.
3. The commissioners are appointed by the President of India.

1. 1 only
2. 1 & 2 only
3. 3 only
4. 2 & 3 only

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