DNA: Mumbai: Friday, October 14,
2016.
One common
complaint that you hear as soon as the RTI is uttered is that the user
community is a pests of sorts 'troubling and harassing' officials and even
'blackmailing' them. This, they do by filing increasingly frivolous
applications. RTI activists have challenged by officials stating that these are
excuses to evade replies to the RTI. "Why should an officer even get
blackmailed if he has not done anything wrong?" asked Shailesh Gandhi,
former central information commissioner. dna filed RTI applications with the
General Administration Department (GAD) of Maharashtra government and
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, which looks after the implementation of the
RTI, chief minister's office and commissioner of police, Mumbai.
The
information sought was from the time RTI Act was enacted and was required to
bring to light all the documents on record that say RTI applications and their
applicants are trouble. The GAD of Maharashtra government said that there is no
information on record, in case of BMC, there were only letters from politicians
to ask that RTI activists be 'reigned in.' The chief minister's office and that
of the commissioner of police, also said there was no information provided.
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