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A municipal body rejects a builder's application for a building permission without giving any explanation, saying the RTI Act does not require it. Which provision of the Act most directly contradicts this stand?

Section 4(1)(d) contradicts the municipal body's stand. It requires every public authority to provide reasons for its administrative or quasi-judicial decisions to affected persons, so the builder is entitled to the reasons for the rejection without needing to rely on any other provision.

  1. AThe duty in Section 4(1)(d) to provide reasons for administrative or quasi-judicial decisions to affected personsCorrect
  2. BThe duty in Section 4(1)(c) to publish a directory of officers
  3. CThe twenty-year rule in Section 8(3)
  4. DThe duty in Section 4(4) to disseminate in local language

Explanation

Section 4(1)(d) obliges every public authority to provide reasons for its administrative or quasi-judicial decisions to affected persons. The builder is an affected person. The directory of officers is in Section 4(1)(b)(ix), Section 8(3) concerns old events, and Section 4(4) concerns the manner of dissemination.

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