Which of the following about Right to Information Amendment Bill 2018 is are incorrect ........

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Which of the following about Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2018 is/are incorrect?

The Bill proposed to give the Centre the power to set the tenure and salaries of the State and Central Information Commissioners.

The Bill fixes five-year tenure for the State and Central Information Commissioners unless a notification is issued by the Government altering the tenure.

At present the Information commissioners enjoy same tenure as that of election commissioners.

The government cited the reason that the Information Commissions are statutory bodies whereas the Election Commission is a Constitutional Body.

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Explanation:

Second option is correct incontext of question.

The Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2018, which proposes to give the Centre the power to set the tenure and salaries of State and Central Information Commissioners, will be introduced in the Lok Sabha in the monsoon session beginning on Wednesday. The current law gives Information Commissioners a tenure of five years and salaries which match those of Election Commissioners. The Bill -— which was only circulated to lawmakers on Tuesday morning — seeks to amend that.