DIGITAL NEWS PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION CHALLENGES PRIVACY LAW, AS ATTACK ON THE FREEDOM OF PRESS AND WHISTLE BLOWERS FROM SHARING INFORMATION ON CORRUPTION ETC

The Government has announced implementation of a privacy law to protect digital personal data of users, raising compliance requirements for platforms like Meta and Google, the publishers have said that since media outlets were not exempt, hence the law was an invasion of press freedom, however media companies received assurances in the August meeting with the Government that the law would protect press freedom, but no written assurance has been given to the Digital News Publishers Association. The law would render investigative journalism a benign and nurtured recorder of events and the provisions constitute pre censorship which is anathema to any democracy for the people of the people and by the people. News publishers are concerned that a federal authority created under the law can impose fines for non compliance, and grants powers to Government of India to block access to any information in the interests of the general public, which would curtail press freedom, as per report made by the DNPA. It further stated that India has chosen to grant broad exemptions to the state, while failing to extend any corresponding protection to the press. Further it is mentioned in the letter issued by the DNPA that, it can also deter whistleblowers from sharing information on corruption, corporate, wrong doing or electoral malpractice with reporters, the DNPA further argued that nakedly unguided provisions must be quashed, as the power can be extended to privilege communications in possessions of a reporter or the informant, and it is an attack on the freedom of press :-- Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh phone number, 9459334377

DEPARTMENT OF (AR) RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPILATION OF RECORDS AND REPORT COMPLAINTS TO THE APPROPRIATE GOVERNMENT UNDER MONTHLY STATEMENT (TO CHIEF MINISTER THROUGH THE CHIEF SECRETARY)

Secretary administrative reforms while attending the complaints of the RTI activists and volunteers during the course of compilation of records furnished for the corrective measures must report the delay and dereliction of duty by the public authorities to the respective Chief Secretary of the Government and also to the Honourable Chief Minister of the state, so related to monthly statement of cases pending finalization over three months with effect from the case concerning to the said applicant and verified by the department of administrative reforms so connected to the instructions of the department of personnel and training and time to time verified by the administration of the concerned department and kept pending for necessary correction as alleged by the applicant in this behalf of the demand and complaints for the action under law code manual prefixed by the Constitution of India in this behalf, where in it is found that the State information Commissions are reluctant to report such delay and dereliction of duty to the House of elected representatives and the monitoring and reporting on the captioned subject deliberations required to be verified by the appropriate government are kept pending and no disciplinary action is recommended for the improvement and welfare of the general public facing corruption in this behalf of the delay and dereliction of duty under the Right to Information and the charter of public accountability for which the number of complaints are made before the appropriate government but there is no review and revision, even though and more over the department of administrative reforms writing to the concerned administrative Secretaries and the Heads of departments for needful but no action in this behalf of the verification and investigation of record is an illegal continuation of the departmental proceedings and for which the Secretary of department and the Heads of the departments must be held responsible for the positive steps on the captioned subject matter deliberation over due for the correction since the monthly statement of cases pending finalization over three months and kept pending by the departments, without taking cognisance of the law code manual prefixed by the department of personnel and training and the administrative reforms organisation working for the transparency and accountability in this behalf of the work and conduct noticed by the all concerned in the function of the Government corridor, as working for the welfare of the people and doing needful under law code manual prefixed by the Constitution of India in this behalf and must be held responsible for the such delay and dereliction of duty where no action has been reported by the SIC or CIC as the case may be, failing which there is no way out for the required corrective action suggested by the department of administrative reforms as per the instructions of the DOP&T working for the good governance and accountability at government levels and taking cognisance of the government of India's decision-making , time to time issued for

the uniform working of the government functioning and redressal of grievances of the general public facing corruption and misleading information access to informations, so pointed by the RTI activists and applicants working for the good governance and accountability in the administration of the department corridor and facing various problems in dealing with the way out for corrective measures where no positive steps are taken by the departments, even the directions of the honourable Courts:-- Er Fateh Chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh phone number 9459334377

DEPARTMENT OF (AR) RESPONSIBLE TO REPORT COMPILATION OF RECORD OF THE COMPLAINTS RELATED TO DELAY AND DERELICTION OF DUTY TO CHIEF MINISTER THROUGH THE CHIEF SECRETARY, REQUIRED UNDER MONTHLY STATEMENT OF CASES PENDING FINALIZATION OVER 3 MONTHS

Secretary administrative reforms while attending the complaints of the RTI activists and volunteers during the course of compilation of records furnished for the corrective measures must report the delay and dereliction of duty by the public authorities to the respective Chief Secretary of the Government and also to the Honourable Chief Minister of the state, so related to monthly statement of cases pending finalization over three months with effect from the case concerning to the said applicant and verified by the department of administrative reforms so connected to the instructions of the department of personnel and training and time to time verified by the administration of the concerned department and kept pending for necessary correction as alleged by the applicant in this behalf of the demand and complaints for the action under law code manual prefixed by the Constitution of India in this behalf, where in it is found that the State information Commissions are reluctant to report such delay and dereliction of duty to the House of elected representatives and the monitoring and reporting on the captioned subject deliberations required to be verified by the appropriate government are kept pending and no disciplinary action is recommended for the improvement and welfare of the general public facing corruption in this behalf of the delay and dereliction of duty under the Right to Information and the charter of public accountability for which the number of complaints are made before the appropriate government but there is no review and revision, even though and more over the department of administrative reforms writing to the concerned administrative Secretaries and the Heads of departments for needful but no action in this behalf of the verification and investigation of record is an illegal continuation of the departmental proceedings and for which the Secretary of department and the Heads of the departments must be held responsible for the positive steps on the captioned subject matter deliberation over due for the correction since the monthly statement of cases pending finalization over three months and kept pending by the departments, without taking cognisance of the law code manual prefixed by the department of personnel and training and the administrative reforms organisation working for the transparency and accountability in this behalf of the work and conduct noticed by the all concerned in the function of the Government corridor, as working for the welfare of the people and doing needful under law code manual prefixed by the Constitution of India in this behalf and must be held responsible for the such delay and dereliction of duty where no action has been reported by the SIC or CIC as the case may be, failing which there is no way out for the required corrective action suggested by the department of administrative reforms as per the instructions of the DOP&T working for the good governance and accountability at government levels and taking cognisance of the government of India's decision-making , time to time issued for

the uniform working of the government functioning and redressal of grievances of the general public facing corruption and misleading information access to informations, so pointed by the RTI activists and applicants working for the good governance and accountability in the administration of the department corridor and facing various problems in dealing with the way out for corrective measures where no positive steps are taken by the departments, even the directions of the honourable Courts:-- Er Fateh Chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh phone number 9459334377

DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL AND TRAINING OM NUMBER 10/23/2007 -IR, DATED 9-7-2007 , ALLOWING INTERVENTION OF OFFICER IN A COMMANDING POSITION TO IMPLEMENT THE ORDER PASSED BY APPELLATE AUTHORITY, SOAS TO ENSURE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE RTI ACT, AS SIC DEFUNCT SINCE VERY LONG AND PEOPLE FACING PROBLEMS

Friends, It is a matter of disciplinary action against the public information officers but destroyed because of the defunct status of the Himachal pradesh State information commission as deciding Appeals and complaints have no opinion that public information officers failed to receive an application for information or has not furnished information within the time specified or malafidely denied the request for information or knowingly given incorrect, incomplete or misleading information or destroy information  which was the subject of the request or obstructed in any manner in furnishing the information, the Commission may recommend the such cases for disciplinary action against the public information officers, however due to non compliance required under section 12 and sub section (3) the information commission is not in function and the appellant facing delay and dereliction of duty because of this obstruction created by the appropriate Government, working for the welfare of people of society and state, list by way and virtue of which it is necessary to have complaints before the Ministries against the public authorities, so that action under section 19(6) of the right to information may be taken against the defaulters and disciplinary action may be recommended for further action, failing which it is not possible to continue with the Appeals and complaints and for which Ministries may be contacted and approached for the timely action and correction of incorrect and misleading informations, being this duty under law code manuals prefixed by the Constitution of India in this behalf:-- Er Fateh Chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal pradesh phone number, 9459334377

MINUTES OF MEETING UNDER THE BANNER OF HPCD, 3552 RELATED TO FORGERY OF A FALSE IDENTIFICATION AT SULTANPUR CHAMBA, ISSUE RAISED FOR ACTION UNDER LAW :--

Mahant It was an occasion today on 7-11-2026 when attended online RTI meeting under the banner of HPCD, 3552 Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh, which was attended by Shri Sanjay Kumar Shukla a key member from the National Campaign Committee and Shri BB Gupta from Bihar, Shri pyar Muhammed Pathan from Chamba, and Shri Uttam Chand Vashishtha, from Chamba in addition to other new era entrants of the meeting scheduled for this event under awareness drive movement of the programme for needful, as organizing educational programmes and events to advance the understanding of the public, in particular of disadvantaged communities, as to how to exercise the rights contemplated under this Act. Shri Pyar Muhammed Pathan a leading RTI activist from Chamba raised an issue of forgery by some one at Chamba one who has obtained false identifications from the local agencies to have property from the

GOVERNMENT EXPECTS THE PUBLIC TO ASSIST FOR ERADICATION OF CORRUPTION, AS WITHOUT PUBLIC COOPERATION IT IS NOT PRACTICABLE TO ERADICATE CORRUPTION

Political parties are responsible to maintain their work and conduct of duty and responsibility on the basis of performance made and verified under the law code manuals and the public for their selection and election as maintaining their report cards on the basis of voting held for the election scheduled in this behalf of the representation for the public. At the same time the work and conduct of employees too based on their qualifications and research for the duty under decision making process of departmental review and revision, required to be maintained by the Government corridor, where all reports and returns are maintained against the employees on duty before any stern action is taken by the competent authorities and the appropriate Government for decision making in this behalf. As such it is necessary to have good governance and accountability where people are responsible to verify the facts related to public authorities and also maintained by the political leaders for their duty and compliance, otherwise, it would be difficult to maintain the transparency and accountability where people are too held responsible to follow and assist the Government in eradication of corruption and the Government expects the public too to assist it in this field as without public cooperation it is not practicable to completely eradicate corruption, even though the official responsibility for rooting out corruption in Government offices primarily rests with the departments and the Heads of the offices and necessary assistance and guidance in this behalf is provided to the Heads of the departments by the Directorates of vigilance. Hence it is necessary to vote and elect honest and qualified persons to your representation, instead of to follow purely party platform for this choice:-Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh phone number 9459334377

DECIDING APPEALS UNDER THE RTI ACT IS A QUASI-JUDICIAL FUNCTION HENCE FAA SHOULD SEE TO IT THAT JUSTICE IS NOT ONLY DONE BUT IT SHOULD ALSO APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN DONE AND SECTION 19(6) MUST BE PROCESSED WITH PROCEDURE UNDER LAW

It is directed to say that the PIO of a public authority is responsible to supply correct and complete information to the information seeker under the Right to Information Act, 2005,within the specified time. It is possible that a public information officer may not act as per provisions of the Act or an Applicant may not other wise be satisfied with the decision of the public information officer. The contains the provisions of the two appeals to tide over such situations. While the first appeal lies within the public authority itself, the second appeal lies with the State Information Commission or the central information commission, as the case may be. The State information commission (Appeal Procedure) Rules, 2005 govern the procedure for deciding appeals by the Commission. The first appellate authority is, however, required to dispose of the appeals received by him in the light of the provisions of the Act and keeping in view the principles of natural justice, a guide has been prepared for the first appellate authorities, it is expected that it would help them to perform their duties effectively. It is therefore necessary for the first appellate authorities to supply correct and complete information within the specified time to any person seeking information under the RTI act, 2005 . The first appeal lies within the public authority itself, which is made to an officer designated as the first appellate authority by the concerned public authority. The first appellate authority happens to be an officer senior in rank to the public information officer and the second appeal lies with the State information commission. The state information commission (Appeal Procedure) Rules, 2005 govern the procedure for deciding appeals by the Commission. In order to perform his /her duties effectively, the appellate authority should study the Act carefully and understand its provisions correctly and the said document must explain the important aspects of the Act, which a first appellate authority should, in particular, be conversant with :-- Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal pradesh phone number, 9459334377