Eastern Mirror: Lucknow: Sunday, July 30, 2017.
In a surprise
response to an RTI filed by a Lucknow activist, the Ministry of Home Affairs
(MHA) has denied having any information about the manpower of various central
para-military forces it controls.
Activist
Nutan Thakur had sought information about the total sanctioned strength,
current strength and vacancies of officers and men in the different
paramilitary forces under the ministry.
MHA Deputy
Secretary (Personnel) R.B.S. Negi, through a letter dated July 18, replied that
the ministry did not have the required information.
“I find this
both surprising and shocking that the MHA does not even have this basic
information about its paramilitary forces,” Thakur told IANS.
Negi has
transferred the RTI application to the six paramilitary forces Border Security
Force, Central Reserve Police Force, Central Industrial Security Force,
Sashastra Seema Bal, Indo-Tibetan Border Police and Assam Rifles, directing
them to provide the information.