Nagaland Post: Dimapur: Tuesday, May 03, 2016.
One-day
training programme on Right to Information Act 2005 was conducted for First
Appellate Authorities, Public Information Officers and Assistant Public
Information Officers of Nagaland Civil Secretariat on April 29 at Nagaland
Civil Secretariat Conference Hall.
Altogether 64
offices attended the programme.
Chief
secretary, Pankaj Kumar, IAS shared his experiences on RTI- current scenario
and future.
He stressed
on the need for proactive disclosure as per Section 4 of RTI Act, where public
servants were urged to “provide information and not answer questions”.
He also
appealed the participants to learn the proper way of noting the file as people
would read and consider their work.
Though the
misuse of RTI was comparatively less in Nagaland, the chief secretary cautioned
that people may misuse it and therefore appealed public authorities to check
such practices.
Also speaking
at the programme, Chief Information Commissioner, Nagaland Information
Commission, Toshi Aier, IAS (Rtd) said that major chunk of the state’s budget
was spent on salary of government servants.
Aier said
since he took over as CIC a month ago, he had already taken up 10 cases, and
expressed the need for the Appellate Authorities and PIOs to be more dedicated
in disseminating information to the citizens.
Various
topics such as “Overview of the RTI Act 200, Responsibilities of PIOs and
APIOs, Role of Appellate Authority by librarian ATI and Appeals and Penalties”
were taken up at the programme.
Earlier, the
valedictory function was graced by chief information commissioner, Nagaland
Information Commission, Toshi Aier, IAS (Rtd) and the program was coordinated
by Dr.Hovithal Sothu.
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