Daily Pioneer: Chandigarh: Wednesday,
May 25, 2016.
Haryana
Government has decided to adopt the prescription of retention period or
retention policy of Government of India for weeding out of records pertaining
to RTI applications and cases related under RTI.
A spokesman
of Administrative Reforms Department on Tuesday said that the retention period
would be three years for record of RTI cases disposed off without attracting
any first appeal. It would also be three years for RTI cases attracting first
appeal, since they attract second appeal so require a fair retention period.
He said that
for record of RTI cases attracting second appeal, without any remarkable
decision, the retention period would be three years or till the compliance of
Commission’s orders, whichever is later.
The retention
period would be five years for RTI cases attracting second appeal involving a
remarkable decision. It would be judgement or Commission Ruling ‘B’. The
retention period would also be three years for record of first appeal cases
file as they may attract second appeal.
For record of
second appeal cases file, the retention period would be three years or till the
compliance of the Commission’s orders. It would also be three years for the
record file relating to the administrative aspects or RTI Act, 2015 that is
implementation, suggestion and guidelines, said the spokesman.
He said that
for record file register of RTI application that is other than file, the
retention period would be ‘B’ keep, which means that the file required for
permanent preservation for administrative purpose.
A written
communication to this effect has been sent to all Administrative Secretaries,
Heads of Departments, Divisional Commissioners, Registrar, Punjab and Haryana
High Court, all Deputy Commissioners, Managing Directors and Chief
Administrators of the Boards and Corporations and Registrars of Universities in
the state and they have been directed to ensure implementation of these
instructions in all the offices under their control, he added.
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