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Decision dated 17/03/22 of NITI Aayog Sr Advisor (G&H) & FAA said UIDAI is no longer an attached office of the NITI Aayog, NITI Aayog Is not custodian of records of the CC-UIDAI and information relating to it is not available in NITI Aayog. I ascertained that UIDAI is now attached to MEITY and made requested to it. MEITY transfer to UIDAI. Decision dated 11/05/22 of UIDAI DDG (Finance, Accounts and Legal) & FAA said that UIDAI is not the custodian of any Cabinet Committee documents. I applied again to MEITY Decision dated 27/05/22 of CPIO DD (Egov) said that no records related to CC-UIDAI are available with MeitY.
Background note:
"My request dated 17/01/22 to Cabinet Secretariat to know how information related to 2 Cabinet Committees discontinued in 2014 was made public u/s 8(1)(i) proviso was transferred to NITI Aayog for Cabinet Committee on UIDAI related issues [CC-UIDAI]. Cabinet Secretariat FAA's order said this was because CC-UIDAI Notes were forwarded by Planning Commission (now NITI Aayog). NITI Aayog CPIO provided NIL response for G&R Vertical. FAA allowed my appeal request for process u/s 5(4) and order dated 17/03/22 said, after assistance from other Verticals, that NITI Aayog is not the custodian of CC-UIDAI records and also that UIDAI is no longer under it. I then applied to MEITY (now parent Ministry of UIDAI). MEITY transferred to UIDAI. UIDAI FAA's order dated 11/05/22 said UIDAI has no CC-UIDAI documents. I applied again to MEITY. MEITY CPIO's response dated 27/05/22 said no records related to CC-UIDAI are available in MEITY.
ii. To make further-transfer dated 18/07/22 No. DITEC/R/X/22/00035 to MEITY of Cabinet's Secretariat joint transfer to MEITY and NITI Aayog; iii. To, out of the 4 transfers u/s 6(3) made in same letter, find only no.1 & 2 made by 'Technical error' and no.3 & 4 not erroneous / requiring withdrawal. II) I also request the Commission to, u/s 19(8)(b), require NITI Aayog to compensate me for the loss of Rs. 20/- (Rupees twenty only) that I had to pay toward RTI fee for making the 2 applications to access the information from MEITY and UIDAI that was enclosed with my present request - because its RTI Cell had failed to make in January the necessary further-transfers that it needlessly made in July.

The contents of the aforementioned letter dated 10.07.2023 of the Appellant addressed to the three Respondents reads as under:

"The 8 cases are among 21 arising from Cabinet Secretariat's transfers to NITI Aayog & MEITY and NITI Aayog's to MEITY & UIDAI and multiple disposals. (List is at the end.) My request dated 11.06.2022 to Cabinet Secretariat was follow-up to my IF-ELSE request dated 17.01.2022 to it about information made public u/s 8(1)(i) of RTI Act in case of discontinued Cabinet Committee on UIDAI: URL if made public via internet, else description u/s 4(1)(b)(vi) of records. The initial transfer was only to NITI Aayog. NITI Aayog pointed to MEITY. I made to MEITY the request not transferred to it. MEITY transferred to UIDAI. I applied to MEITY for information of reasons. Enclosing the prior (nil) decisions, I applied to Cabinet Secretariat w.r.t to its press releases about 6 meetings for dates and file numbers of Planning Commission's communications for those and, again, description of records. This is firstly to bring to your attention that CIC has already rejected in your favour my following cases concerning your prior decisions that were part of my request dated 11.06.2022: