NEW DELHI: People from over 10 states led by National Campaign for Protection of Right to Information (NCPRI) marched in protest against the amendments to the RTI Act here on Wednesday.The amendent bill is slated to be discussed in Parliament during the winter session. The amendments empower the central government to decide on the tenure and salary of the information commissioners in the Central Information Commission (CIC). The protestors also demanded speedy appointment of information commissioners.Speaking against the amendments, senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan said that the move was planned to make information commissioners subservient to the government and was in keeping with the BJP-led government’s interference with every institution including the CBI and the CVC.Congress’s Rajeev Gowda , CPI’s D Raja, RJD’s Manoj Jha were among those who said that they would oppose the amendments to the RTI act.Former information commissioner in the CIC Sridhar Acharyulu said that the government was undermining the independence of information commissioners to prevent them from functioning properly.Activists have expressed concern that 8 out of 11 posts in the CIC are currently lying vacant, including that of the chief. NCPRI member Anjali Bharadwaj said, ‘’There are nearly 26,500 cases now pending before the CIC and the backlog is rising at an alarming rate due to the paucity of commissioners.’’People from states including Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal , Jammu & Kashmir, Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar participated in the protest and 'jan manch'.