What steps are required for the constitutionalization of a Commission? Do you think granting constitutional status to the Central Information Commission (CIC) would strengthen the RTI regime in independent reasons.

Constitutionalization of CIC has been the hole of the country as it is celebrating 20years of Right to Information Act 2005. Steps for constitutionalization of Commission: (1) Legislative allowance for passage of a Constitutional Amendment (2) Preserving the Bill for Amendment in Supreme House of of Rajya Sabha passing of Bill with special majority (3) Passing of Bill with Special majority as it uses done in the case of National Commission of Backward Classes (Art 338D) But it will not serve as the panacea to all the questions like: i Vacancy even in Constitutional bodies like National Commission of Scheduled Caste NCSC ii Public Awareness about RTI Act will remain minimal & 19L (Sakshi Vyapith) iii Institutional ability of non-disclosure of information will persist (9) iv The lack of complied information at disposal of No will not be solved Way forward to strengthen RTI regime: (1) Strengthen procedure disclosure by public office order Sec 4 of RTI (will reduce FOIA processing time) - Anjeli Bhatnagar Cen (2) Fill the Vacancies at CIC & ICs level (Anjeli Bhatnagar Case) (3) Public Awareness & designing in RTI filing (Sakshi Vyapith Sujatha) (4) Deferring of public official to avoid disclosure by heavy penalty (25,000) - Anjeli Bhatnagar Con RTI unleashed tithes the second time as per APC by empowering Common man to limit arbitrage state police) - thus it should be strengthened tally with Constitutional status to CIC-