NDTV: New Delhi: Wednesday, September 21, 2016.
Around 2,000
Central government organisations will soon be accepting applications under the
Right to Information (RTI) Act through online medium.
The move is
based on the suggestion given by a group of secretaries before Prime Minister
Narendra Modi.
The
Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has started a massive exercise to
train nodal officers of all such public authorities who have not yet started
accepting the RTI pleas online.
In a stern
directive, it has asked all the government departments to attend a workshop
being organised by the DoPT in this regard "without fail". In case,
the officers concerned fail to attend the workshop, a username will be created
suo-motu and all these public authorities will be made live on the RTI portal.
As many as
690 public authorities have been aligned so far on the especially designed
website www.rtionline.gov.in to enable online filing of the RTI
applications.
The DoPT had
during June and July this year conducted a workshop for 330 public authorities.
Of these, 51 nodal officers did not attend the workshop.
Since all the
public authorities (around 2,000) will
have to be aligned in a time bound manner (a target/timeline fixed and
monitored at the highest level), DoPT is organising yet another training
workshop as a special drive for those defaulted public authorities and nodal
officers who did not attend the workshop.
It requested
that all nodal officers under 51 public authorities attend the workshop without
fail on Tuesday, the DoPT said in the order.
It may be
noted by all concerned that no further opportunity would be given to the nodal
officers after this workshop, the order said.
In case the
concerned nodal officer is unable to attend this training, the username will be
created suo-motu and the concerned public authority will be made live on the
RTI online portal with effect from September 30, by DoPT, it said.
The RTI Act,
2005, enables a citizen to seek tome-bound reply on governance related
matters. People can also make payment of
RTI fee online.
On the
occasion of completion of more than 10 years of implementation of the RTI Act,
the Central Information Commission is going to hold annual convention in
October, the DoPT said.
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