No More Curtains !
Jammu, 02/May/2020: Requesting the Jammu and Kashmir Bank management to
start online RTI facility for the citizens,
activist Raman Sharma have sent two pages representation to Rajesh Kumar
Chibber chairman and Managing Director of the bank (via-email).
In his appeal to the Chairman of
the bank regarding implementation of online facility for receiving application
under Right to Information Act, Sharma stated that Jammu & Kashmir bank is
one of the premier state owned institution & the people have hope
from the incumbent chairman that the bank would set new trademarks of
transparency & accountability.
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| RK Chibber, Chairman and MD, JK Bank |
In his letter, Sharma has also submitted
“I would also like to take
this opportunity to bring it to your kind notice that, along with other fellow residents of J &
K, I was amongst a few people who had
submitted RTI
applications with the J & K bank back in year 2010-11 but unfortunately
that time our plea was rejected by the then people at the helm of affairs in
the bank for the reasons best known to them anyhow but now the residents of J & K & especially youth believe there
can be no more curtains & the J & K bank shall be torch bearer of
transparency under your able leadership”.
Pleading his request for
online RTI facility, his letter further
reads, that online RTI
mechanism would also ease out the burden of the designated Public Information
officers of the bank to
physically photocopy & then transfer the RTI applications to different officers
& units of the banks and It would be of immense help to the citizenry
& J & K Bank would be the first
government owned institution in Jammu &
Kashmir Union Territory to start this online RTI facility for citizens.
His letter also informed the
bank chairman that the Government of
India’s ministry of DoPT (Department of Personnel and Training) was
already running facility of online RTI application for citizens of India over half
decade now. It is pertinent to mention here that for quite a long time the JK
Bank leadership expressed its reluctance in coming under the ambit of Right to
Information Act and had fought a long legal battle in court of law with the
information seekers/citizens.
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