Times
of India: Mumbai: Thursday, 03 September 2015.
Two assistant
commissioners and an information officer of the Mira Bhayander Municipal
Corporation (MBMC) have been fined by the State Information Commissioner (SIC)
for failing to reply to a Right To Information (RTI) query of an applicant.
Santosh
Tiwari had filed an RTI application in 2012 regarding information on the bars
and lodges and illegal constructions in the region. After failing to get
information from the MBMC he had filed a first and second appeal, but failed to
get a reply.
He then filed
a final appeal before the SIC (Konkan Division) that fined assistant
commissioners Hemant Patil and Kalpita Pimple Rs 45,000 each. Dashrath Handore,
information officer with the MBMC general administration department has been
fined Rs 21,000. The amount will be deducted in three installments from their
salaries.
The SIC has
also sought a reply from Municipal Commissioner Achyut Hange for not initiating
departmental inquiry into the non-compliance of the RTI Act by his officers.
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