DNA: Odisha: Tuesday, March 21, 2017.
An RTI
activist has claimed that the Public Information Officer of ICDS, Rajnagar has
asked him to deposit Rs 50,000 to get all documents on supply of nutritional
food to children, which he had asked for under RTI act.
RTI activist
Anirudha Sethy, a native of Rajnagar tehsil in Kendrapara district had sough
information about of details of food supplied in the angwandi centres run under
the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) in Odisha's Kendrapara district
under the RTI Act.
The Public
Information Officer (PIO), ICDS, Rajnagar Block has asked me to deposit Rs
50,000 after which they will supply all the required documents requested by me,
Sethy claimed.
"We have
sought the sum in accordance with the provisions of RTI Act and rules. If the
applicant will not deposit the amount within a week then he will be denied the
right of getting information," said Public Information Officer, ICDS,
Rajnagar, Rajani Roul.