Rising Kashmir: Jammu: Friday, May 12, 2017.
Concerned
over the difficulties faced by the candidates delay in getting information
under Right to Information Act from Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission
(JKPSC), activists and lawyers on Thursday appealed the government and the
JKPSC to expedite the process of furnishing RTI replies to the applicants.
In a
statement, the activists urged the JKPSC that candidates should copies of their
answer keys, merit list or any other information related to exam and declared
results.
Citing the
example of recently declared result of KAS-2017(Prelim) wherein several
candidates being not satisfied with the result have filed RTI applications to
the JKPSC and asked for certified copies of their exam answer scripts and other
allied information. “Unfortunately, the JKPSC has not been able to respond to
their applications expeditiously but waiting for upper time limit of 30 days to
respond to their applications.”
The joint
appeal was endorsed by RTI activists Deepak Sharma, Raman Sharma and Advocates
of J & K High court Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed, Vilakshan Singh, Hunar Gupta,
Dewaker Sharma and S. Harasis Singh a prominent minorities rights and social
activist.
They demanded
that in such cases where the question of one’s future is attached, the officers
should show some sanity and furnish the information without delaying tactics.
Referring
section 7 (1) of the Jammu and Kashmir Right to information act 2009 , the
activists plea stated that it’s amply clear in the law that the information
should be provided to an information seeker at an earliest and 30 days’ time is
the maximum limit.
“The PIO on
receipt of a request unders section 6 shall expeditiously as possible but in
any case 30 days...” and urged that PIOs should understand the law in
perspective and provide the information expeditiously .
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