Scoop News: Srinagar: Thursday, September 14, 2017.
As a part of
digital India Plan, Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly has put RTI
responses online on its official website www.jklegislativeassembly.nic.in.
Now replies
to queries will be put up on the website and will be available for all to view
and not just the person behind the query.
Speaker
Legislative Assembly, Kavinder Gutpa termed the move as a welcome step towards
e-governance.
“It will not
only improve transparency but also reduce the workload of government officials
as it will help eliminate possibility of repeated RTI queries on the same
issue,” he said.
He
congratulated the Secretary Assembly and IT Branch, Assembly for the step.
"Our aim is to bring in more transparency and make available our services
to the citizens of the State at their door steps. Our endeavour is that people
receive their replies without waiting for postal reply.”
Secretary
Legislative Assembly, M. R. Singh said that the facility was started this month
and we have already uploaded replies of nine applications received from March
2017 onwards.
He said that
people who file RTI application shall also receive response through a hard copy
as well.
Pertinently, the
Speaker had issued directions to make RTI Act accessible to citizens of the
State and provide them information at the earliest.
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