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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULES -General Studies-02 IASTODAY CAPSULES are available free -date wise => CLICK HERE Government notifies new RTI rules News: The government on Thursday notified new rules under the Right to Information Act that reduced the tenure of information commissioners from five years to three, something which activists on Friday said would affect their independence. Beyond News: The Chief Information Commissioner’s salary has been fixed at ₹2.5 lakh and an information commissioner’s at ₹2.25 lakh. The policy requires all draft rules to be placed in the public domain for comments/suggestions of people. The draft was not available in the public domain and no consultations were held with members of the public.” Among the new rules, the government had been given the “power to relax” the provisions of the rules, raising “serious concerns that…