Press Trust of India: Amaravati: Saturday, August 12, 2017.
Over three
years after the bifurcation of the state, the Andhra Pradesh government today
constituted the information commission as mandated under the RTI Act.
The Andhra
Pradesh Information Commission has been set up under the Right to Information
Act, 2005. The quasi- judicial body deals with the complaints and second
appeals filed against public information officers and appellate authorities
respectively.
With the High
Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana directing AP
to appoint information commissioners within six weeks, the government, as a
precursor, constituted the commission, official sources said today.
"In
exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of Section 15 of Right to
Information Act, the Government of Andhra Pradesh, hereby, constitutes the
Andhra Pradesh Information Commission to exercise the powers conferred on and
to perform the functions assigned to it under the Act," said General
Administration Department Special Chief Secretary Lingaraj Panigrahi in an
order.
The
commission would function from a rented premises at Mangalagiri in the
Amaravati capital region, the order said.
Though the
state bifurcation took place on June 2, 2014, the AP Information Commission of
the erstwhile united state was not divided.
The term of
office of the information commissioners appointed under the RTI Act also ended
last year.
The HC, in a
ruling on a writ petition last week, directed the state government to complete
the appointment process within six weeks.
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