Times of India: Agra: Saturday,
April 22, 2017.
The state
information commission has imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 each on seven
information officers of various departments, for not providing information
sought by applicants under the RTI Act.
The officers
include Basic Shiksha Adhikari of Agra and Mathur.
The state
information commission had recently hold a four-day 'Jansunvai' (public
hearing) in Agra division, in which, it disposed 32 cases in Agra, 26 cases in
Mathura, 24 cases in Firozabad and 26 cases in Mainpuri.
State information commissioner Gajendra Yadav
told reporters that on the first day of 'Jansunvai', a total of 121 cases were
brought before the panel in Agra on April 18, of these, 32 were disposed. On
the second day, 79 cases were brought before the panel in Mathura, of which, 26
were disposed.
Similarly, on
its third and fourth days, 90 cases in Firozabad and 97 in Mainpuri were
brought, of which 24 and 26 were disposed respectively.
In another
development, the central information commission, in a bid to address wrongful
denial of information to people and to check piling up of complaints before it,
plans to directly approach individual public information officers and
ministries that have a not-so-good record in RTI compliance.
"We are
developing a system under which our database would sort out cases by the name
of central public information officer," chief information commissioner RK
Mathur said.
For this, CIC
would constitute a special unit in its registry, which is the first point of
contact for an applicant to register a complaint or appeal under RTI Act. This
unit would sort out cases ministry-wise and central public information officer
(CPIO)-wise with the help of software, and track them based on the name of
CPIO.
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