Sunday, December 26, 2010

Penalty should be imposed on First Appellate Authority for negligence in RTI matters

F ollowing two amendments are immediately required:
1. Presently, there is no provision of panelty on FAA. It is well known that most of decisions regarding furnishing/refusing/delaying information are taken by senior officers and PIO who is junior one cannot disobey senior. Ulitmately PIO is the victim of system.

2. When information is to be refused because of some section in the Act, it should be answered immediately and there is no point in waiting upto 30 days. Statutary period for refusing such information should be maximum 10 days.

S.P.Manchanda
Convenor Trustee,
Prakash India (NGO)
Keshav Puram,
New Delhi
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1 comment:

DELTA said...

YES... WE are also facing the negligent attitude of the same FAA. They always try to take side of the officers and never fine or issue a notice to them.

The RTI act needs to be rectified and these FAA should be dragged to the CIC.

There MUST be a penal action against FAA in those cases where CIC imposes a fine on the PIO.

Part of fine should be deducted from FAA also.

WE will raise voice together with other RTI forums and in meetings with CIC.

January 13, 2011

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