The Hindu: Thiruvananthapuram: Saturday, 28 February 2015.
The government has issued orders stipulating that
all public sector units and autonomous institutions in the State should
formulate a record retention schedule so that when information is sought under
the Right to Information Act (RTI), replies such as file ‘missing’ or ‘not
traceable’ are not given.
Such a reply would defeat the very purpose of the
RTI Act.
Unless proved that the record was destroyed in
accordance with the prescribed destruction/retention policy, it is deemed that
record continues to be held by the public authority.
‘‘Claims of file missing or not traceable have no
legality as it is not recognised as exception by RTI Act,’’ the government
order said.
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