Financial
Express: Ahmedabad: Saturday, October 13, 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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