Ahmedabad
Newsline: Ahmedabad: Friday, October 12, 2012.
The State
Information Commission had a backlog of over 11,000 appeals and complaints till
June even as the page on its website, which is supposed to show such data,
remained missing on Thursday, a day before the Right to Information (RTI) Act
completes seven years.
When contacted, state Chief Information
Commissioner D Rajagopalan refused to comment on the previous backlogs or what
the current status of these backlogs is. “We have submitted all details to the
Gujarat High Court as part of an affidavit in a PIL, and I have nothing else to
say on this,” he said.
Meanwhile,
RTI activists claimed that 85% of the 26 state government departments did not
fully disclose on their websites information covered by RTI’s proactive
disclosure clause.
“In fact,
most of the websites disclosed perhaps just 10% of the 17 manuals that are
listed under the Act,” Pankti Jog, who operates the RTI helpline for Mahiti
Adhikar Gujarat Pahel (MAGP) told reporters on Thursday.
MAGP had
conducted a survey of the departments’ proactive disclosures status with a
consortium of like-minded organisations.
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