CIC slams NIC, MeitY for evasive reply on Aarogya Setu app, issues notice

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has pulled up the National e-Governance Division (NeGD), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and National Informatics Centre (NIC) for providing an evasive reply on Aarogya Setu app and issued them show cause notices.

Information Commissioner Vanaja N Sarna, in an interim order on Tuesday, asked the NIC to explain how they do not have any information about the creation of the app “when in the Aarogya Setu website it is mentioned that the platform was designed, developed and hosted by it”.

She has asked the NIC why it has no information about who created the app when its name is on the app’s website.