Times of India: Chandigarh: Wednesday, December 06, 2017.
To spare
residents the ordeal of running from pillar to post to get information under
Right to Information (RTI), the UT administration has launched a website,
https://rtionline.gov.in, allowing residents to submit application from home.
RTI Online
portal, developed keeping in view various provisions of RTI Act 2005, was
inaugurated by UT administrator V P Singh Badnore on Tuesday.
With the
launch, Chandigarh has become the first state/Union Territory in the country to
have been registered on the central government's RTI-Online portal which allows
RTI to be filed for seeking information from central ministries and other
important offices like Prime Minister's office and cabinet secretariat also.
Residents can also file RTI with any department of the Chandigarh
administration.
Under the
online system, more than 70 departments and offices under the administration
including municipal corporation, Chandigarh, and Chandigarh Housing Board will
be accessible. Citizens would have the option of making payment through debit
and credit card and SBI netbanking. The RTI fees will be waived off for those
belonging to BPL categories.
Badnore said,
"Access to timely information empowers even the weakest sections of the
society and enables them to get information about public policies and actions,
thereby leading to their welfare."
UT adviser
Parimal Rai said that RTI is a unique way to promote good governance by
bringing in transparency, accountability, predictability and participation.
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