Business
Standard: Mumbai: Friday, 03 July 2015.
Maharashtra
information commissioner has directed the state government that it should not
call the RTI applicants to inspect the documents unnecessarily.
The order was
passed following a request filed by RTI activist and former Central Information
Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi.
In a request
to the Chief Information Commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad, Gandhi had urged
Commission to apply the rule issued by Mumbai civic corporation on June 19
which says if a person has not applied for the inspection of the documents and
the information he/she has requested is not voluminous, he/she should not be
asked to come for inspection of the documents.