The Tribune: Rohtak: Tuesday, July 04, 2017.
The Haryana
State Information Commission has directed the Director, Horticulture to
investigate the matter pertaining to the return of an RTI application and
non-compliance of the commission’s orders and take appropriate action against
the erring officials under the RTI Act, 2005.
State
Information Commissioner Major-Gen JS Kundu(retd) has also asked the Mission
Director of the State Horticulture Development Agency to investigate the
dereliction of duty on the part of information holders and take appropriate
action against the erring official.
The State
Information Commissioner had earlier issued bailable warrants against the State
Public Information Officer (SPIO) of the Horticulture Department for reported
failure to provide information sought under by a Rohtak-based activist and
respond to a show-cause notice .
During the
last hearing in the case on May 24, Ashok Kumar Kaushik, SPIO-cum-budget
officer at the Directorate of Horticulture, Haryana, maintained that the said
RTI application had been forwarded to the SPIO, National Horticulture Mission,
Haryana State Horticulture Development Agency, as the matter pertained to
polyhouses.
He submitted
that the matter again came to his notice on April 12 when a news item appeared
in The Tribune in this regard after which he contacted the SPIO, NHM, and
requested him to furnish the requisite information.
Subhash,
State Coordinator of the Haryana Soochna Adhikar Manch, had sought information
on 10 points regarding the management of polyhouses in the state from the SPIO
at the Directorate ofHorticulture, Haryana.
The RTI
application was returned by the Postal Department as the office of the SPIO,
Horticulture, refused to accept the application. Thereafter, Subhash made a
complaint to the State Information Commission, Haryana .
Dept
refuses to accept application
- Subhash, State Coordinator of the Haryana Soochna Adhikar Manch, had sought information on 10 points regarding the management of polyhouses in the state from the SPIO at the Directorate ofHorticulture, Haryana.
- The RTI application was returned by the Postal Department as the office of the SPIO, Horticulture, refused to accept the application. Thereafter, Subhash made a complaint to the SIC, Haryana
- The State Information Commissioner had earlier issued bailable warrants against the State Public Information Officer (SPIO) of the Horticulture Department for reported failure to provide information sought by the Rohtak-based activist and respond to a show-cause notice.
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