After Direction from CM’s Grievance Cell, Raj Bhawan mends Its Website

Jammu: After directions from the Chief Minister’s Grievance Cell, Jammu and Kashmir Raj Bhawan officials have immediately mended the official website. A complaint in the Chief Minister’s Grievance Cell (http://jkgrievance.nic.in/) has forced the officials of the Jammu and Kashmir Raj Bhawan to update the official website which was as per the statement of an RTI activist Raman Sharma had not been updated since 3 to 4 months. Raman Sharma, the RTI activist had made a complaint with the Chief Minister’s Grievance cell on 19/03/2012 vide his complaint no. 30306 stating that “At the point of time when everybody is talking about the e.governance and Information Technology, the highest office of the state, i.e. Raj Bhawan has not been able to update their website on regular basis. The official website of Jammu and Kashmir Raj Bhawan has not been updated for a long and information related to RTI act is not uploaded or updated in the website (http:jkrajbhawan.nic.inPageUnderConstruction.htm). For the past more than 3 to 4 months the message that comes when we open RTI link is UNDER CONSTRUCTION. OTHERWISE ALSO No current and latest information available on the website”. It is pertinent to mention here that as per Web Policy of Jammu and Kashmir Government, there should be regular updating of the website of every department.  Taking serious note of the complaint, the Grievance Cell on same day had further forwarded it to the state Information and Technology department and it is only with the intervention of the Chief Minister’s Grievance Cell that now  the webpage has been updated  and the information related to RTI has been uploaded.  Earlier, Raman had also made a similar complaint with the CM grievance cell and RTI application regarding non-updating of Jammu and Kashmir’s official website (http://jammukashmir.nic.in/), though the action in this case is awaited.