Sunday, August 17, 2014

Training on RTI for PIOs, APIOs

Nagaland Post: Dimapur: Sunday, 17 August 2014.
Training on Right to Information Act 2005(RIT) for public information officers (PIOs), assistant public information officers (APIOs) and responsible officers from different departments was held August 11-13 at the administrative training institute (ATI), Kohima.
Resource persons included ATI joint director L.Youdang Jamir, Nagaland Information Commission undersecretary Er.Worhonthung Ezung and ATI state coordinator Dr. Hovithal Sothu.
In this three-day programme, the participants were enlightened with different topics on Right to Information (RTI) Act.
The topics included concept, proactive disclosure responsibilities of appellate authority, information commissions of both Centre and State, fees and time periods, penalties, records management for effective implementation of RTI Act and various case studies of the country as well as the state.
Experience sharing and solving Right to Information (RTI) Act  problems of some departments together by the participants and the Resource persons were part of the training. The course was coordinated by DMC, ATI, state coordinator Dr.Hovithal Sothu. Altogether, 24 officers from various departments attended the training.