Jammu, July 01: RTI Activists and members of the Sangarsh RTI Movement in JK have urged the Jammu and Kashmir State Information Commission to take exemplary action against the delinquent Public Information Officers along with other officials of the bureaucracy who are hell bent to weaken the transparency law. In a joint press note the, the activists with members of the Sangarsh RTI group have expressed their anger and regret, they have said that that in many cases despite proven violation on the hands of Public Information officers, the designated first appellate authority officers do not dispose of the 1st appeals as per the provisions of the RTI Act and deliberately delay the appeals of the citizens.
The activists angered that in a very few cases the citizen-applicants are provided information within stipulated period of 30 days and in more than 80 percent cases the relevant information is provided only after intervention of the State Information Commission. The members said revenue department tops the list of defaulters who disobeys the provisions of the act. Activists demanded maximum punishment against the guilty officers as prescribed under the act for deliberately depriving the innocent citizens of their constitutional right.
The Sangarsh RTI group have also requested the State Information Commission to strengthen its own mechanism in dealing the complaints and appeals because in most of the cases the citizen-appellants are not even served notice of hearing in the commission well in time and the cases are decided without giving any opportunity to the appellant of being properly heard before the commission. Besides others, this joint appeal is made by Sardar Balvinder Singh, Convener Sangarsh RTI group, Dineshwar Singh Jamwal, President, Universal Foundation, Advocate Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed, Advocate Dewaker Sharma, Vilakshan Singh of J & K High Court, RTI Activist Raman Sharma with Deepak Sharma. http://www.thenorthlines.com/newsdet.aspx?q=53564
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KASHMIR TIMES, 02/JULY/2012
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