India: Private Schools Under Purview of Right To Information Act

Private recognized schools cannot claim exemption from disclosing information to Education Directorate under Right to Information (RTI) Act. A full bench of the Central Information Commission (CIC) ruled this thus virtually bringing them under the ambit of transparency law.

The ruling from the CIC came on a petition filed by a teacher at Pinnacle School in Delhi. She had filed an RTI application with Education Directorate seeking to know her service records.