RTI office issues show cause notice over NIC claims that they dont know who created the Arogya Setu App
The National Informatics Center, which plans government sites, has said that it has no data about who has made the Aarogya Setu application and how it has been made. The Chief Information Commission has pulled up the NIC, which goes under the service of gadgets, and gave a showcause notice to different boss public data officials requesting that they give an answer to a RTI application which interrogated regarding the Covid-19 contact following up. The answer can’t be sly, the CIC has said.
The grumbling was documented by one Saurav Das who professed to have moved toward the NIC, National E-Governance Division (NeGD) and the service of hardware and data innovation looking to think about the production of the application, which has been downloaded by a great many Indians during lockdown. Downloading the versatile application is additionally an absolute necessity prior to entering eateries, film lobbies, metro stations, as specified by the service of home issues. Yet, Das said that neither NIC nor the service had information with respect to the manifestations of the application.
The CIC has additionally asked the National Informatics Center to clarify for what good reason its name is there on the site yet it doesn’t have any data with respect to it.
“The Commission coordinates the CPIO, NIC to clarify this issue recorded as a hard copy regarding how the site https://aarogyasetu.gov.in/was made with the space name gov.in, in the event that they don’t have any data about it,” Information Commissioner Vanaja N Sarna has requested.
The CIC noticed that not just the about the formation of the application, nobody”seems to have” any information about the records made, the data sources got, review estimates taken to check if individual information are being abused.
Worries over the application and its security angles have been raised previously. Congress pioneer Rahul Gandhi had before blamed the legislature for breaking information security. “The Arogya Setu application, is an advanced reconnaissance framework, moved operations to a pvt administrator, with no institutional oversight – raising genuine information security and protection concerns. Innovation can help guard us; yet dread must not be utilized to follow residents without their assent,” he had tweeted.
Association serve Ravi Shankar Prasad had then invalidated the claims and attested that Aarogya Setu has not been moved operations to any private administrator.
