‘Make public expenditure incurred on Atal’s treatment’

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NEW DELHI: The Central Information Commission has directed the Health ministry to make public expenses incurred on the treatment of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee within 15 days.

While hearing a petition of an RTI applicant who sought details of funds spent on treatment of the 88-year-old ailing BJP leader, chief information commissioner Satyananda Mishra said the cost incurred on the medical treatment of the former prime minister should be available with the health ministry.

Slamming the Ministry for repeatedly transferring the RTI application, the commissioner said, “we find it surprising that the Ministry did not take pains to locate the information and provide to the appellant and, instead, shuttled around the RTI application from division to another.”

Mishra directed the ministry to “find out information wherever available”. (PTI)

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