Business
Standard: Gurgaon: Wednesday, 10 February 2016.
The Haryana
state information commission has imposed a Rs.5,000 fine on Gurgaon's District
Development and Panchayat Officer (DDPO) Narender Singh for not replying to an
RTI request.
Sudhir Yadav
had sought information, through a request made on January 31, 2015, about how
much money was drawn and spent by members of the Zila Parishad and the Block
Samiti in the last financial year.
He was called
on first appeal but DDPO Singh missed the meeting without any justified reason
and kept him waiting for over two hours.
Yadav then
filed a complaint with the state information commission about the behaviour of
officials in the DDPO office.
Acting on the
complaint, the commission issued show cause notice to Singh who failed to
respond.
The
commission called the DDPO for a final hearing on February 1, 2016, and imposed
the fine after the officer failed to present himself personally.
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