CIC drops proceedings against MEITY over Aarogya Setu complaint

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has dropped its show cause notice proceedings against the ministry of electronics and IT (MEITY) on the complaint regarding seeking details of Aarogya Setu, and the complaint too has been disposed of in an order passed last week.

Last month, the CIC had issued a notice questioning the chief public information officers (CPIOs) of the ministry, National Informatics Centre and the National e-Governance Division (NeGD), as to why a penalty under the RTI Act should not be imposed on them for not adequately answering the RTI application which sought several details regarding the making of the government’s contact tracing app Aarogya Setu and the people behind it.