Free Press Journal: Mumbai: Monday,
May 16, 2016.
The
Maharashtra State Information Commission has awarded a compensation of Rs 3,000
to an RTI activist here, to be deducted from monthly salary of two Brihnmumbai
Municipal Corporation officials for failing to furnish information to the
former sought under an RTI query.
Chief
Information Commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad passed the order on May 4, while
hearing the second appeal filed by applicant Anees Khan, that he be paid Rs
3,000 from the salary of Prashant Tawde and Sachin Nehre, who were posted as
Public Information Officers (PIOs) at the BMC, before June 16 under relevant
sections of RTI Act.
Besides
directing the BMC Commissioner on paying the compensation, Gaikwad also ordered
both the officers to reply by June 16 as to why they failed to perform their
duty. Khan had filed an RTI query in November last year with the civic body
seeking information about action taken on his complaint, which he had lodged
with ward officer of H-West ward in September, about “illegal” construction at
a hotel in suburban Bandra.. PTI
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