RTI comes in way of civil servants giving advice to govt: Arun Jailtey

Bureaucrats fear their suggestions could be made public later

Finance minister Arun Jaitley said the Right to Information (RTI) Act can to some extent create hindrance in bureaucrats giving their advice or opinions in the process of decision making out of the fear that these would become public later.

However, he said bureaucrats are free to render their advice, opinion during the process of decision making.

"Even B G Verghese had stated that the opinion, advice given by public servants in the course of decision making should not be made public," he said after releasing a book.