Live Law: New Delhi: Tuesday, July 18, 2017.
The Central
Information Commission, on Friday, treated the Chief Vigilance Officer of the
Employees State Insurance Company (ESIC) as its deemed PIO, and issued him a show
cause notice, as the Commission deliberated upon imposition of penalty on ESIC.
Information
Commissioner, Prof. M. Sridhar Acharyulu was hearing an Appeal filed by the
examination witnessed a “Munna Bhai movement (sic)”, as the people who had appeared
to take the test were allegedly not the actual candidates.
During the
hearing, the Information Commissioner expressed disappointment with the contradictions
in the reasons provided by the PIOs of various departments of ESIC, observing,
“The Commission is surprised to know that nothing was initiated to probe this
Munnabhai ×lmy type of impersonation scandal in spite of detailed RTI requests along,
and that none is taking impersonation scandal seriously. The ESIC appears not even
ready to give responses on most of the queries of the appellant. The representatives
of several PIOs were talking about their own small wings/sections of ESIC
without having comprehensive response and each one of them was pleading
ignorance.”
It, thereafter,
issued show cause notices to three PIOs, and also to the Deputy Director (Recruitment),
directing them to send their responses before 11 August.
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