The Tribune: Yamunanagar: Saturday,
05 September 2020.
State
Information Commissioner (SIC) Arun Sangwan issued a show-cause notice to the
State Public Information Officer (SPIO)-cum-District Town Planner, Yamunanagar,
for failing to provide requisite information to an appellant.
Jai
Chand Chauhan, an RTI activist, had sought information on related to the change
of land use (CLU), workforce and facilities being provided to them in two
factories in the Sasauli-Sudhail road area of Yamunanagar.
As per
an order passed by the SIC on August 17, 2020, the appellant through an RTI
application on December 3, 2019, had sought information from the office of the
SPIO.
Finding
no response, the appellant filed the first appeal on January 14, 2020, before
the First Appellate Authority (FAA), which was decided on February 13, 2020.
Failing
to receive the requisite information, the appellant filed the second appeal on
April 27, 2020, before the commission.
After
hearing the case, the SIC directed the SPIO to furnish complete information to
the appellant free of cost.
“In
case, any of the points is not related to his office he will transfer the RTI
application to the SPIO concerned, who will furnish the information to the
appellant, as per the provisions of the RTI Act-2005,” reads the order.
The
order further reads, “A show-cause notice has been issued to the
SPIO-cum-District Town Planner, Yamunanagar, asking him as to why a penalty of
Rs 250 per day, subject to the maximum of Rs 25,000, should not be imposed upon
him for causing an inordinate delay in this case.”
The SPIO
was also directed to submit his reply to the commission’s notice by today and
be present during the hearing on September 17.
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