Kashmir Dispatch: Kashmir: Friday, May 22, 2015.
The Financial
Commissioner Revenue has ‘denied’ information under Right to Information (RTI)
about the details of employees presently working in his office, citing reason
that the applicant has an “ambiguous” address.
The RTI
applicant Umar Javid had filed an application under the Jammu and Kashmir RTI
Act, before the public information officer (PIO) Financial Commissioner
Revenue.
The RTI application
which is in the possession of KNS reads: “I request a list of total number of
employees with names, address and parentage presently working in financial
commissioner’s office, Srinagar Kashmir along with the details about the posts
they hold.”
The applicant
had further sought the details about the time period from which the aforesaid
employees are posted in the office. “Details about employees i.e, names and
post of the employees who have been posted in the financial commissioner’s
office Srinagar, Kashmir for more than 2 years continuously from the aforesaid
list and reasons for not transferring the employees who have been posted for
more than 2yrs in Financial Commissioner’s office, Srinagar Kashmir,” it reads.
However, the
official reply has rejected the information sought by the applicant Umar.
In its reply
the public information officer said: “Examination reveals that you have shown
ambiguous address in the application which is not acceptable. Before arranging
the needful information and giving that to you, you may furnish your bio-data
along with profession and residential address, so that the information
delivered may not go in wrong hands or get waste when it is dispatched on the
address shown in the application.
Interestingly
Financial Commissioner Revenue office sent the letter on the same address Post
Box No 111 GPO Srinagar, which earlier the department had cited as “ambiguous.”
The applicant
Umar while talking to KNS alleged that to hide their ‘misdeeds’ the information
has been denied to him.
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