STATE INFORMATION COMMISSIONERS ARE RESPONSIBLE TO FOLLOW CODE FOR COMPLIANCE BY THE BRANCH OFFICERS AND NEGLIGENCE OF DUTY PERTAINING TO TIME-LIMITS SHOULD BE VIEWED SERIOUSLY.

The State information commissioners are responsible to protect the fundamental rights of the RTI activists and Volunteers and follow law of limitation fixed by the RTI charter of delivery and non compliance should be taken serious as such diary registers maintained by the various public authorities are required to be maintained by the department with instructions laid below but the said instructions are not followed by the offices even though it is clearly mentioned in the law code manual prefixed by the government that the diarist will be responsible for the proper maintenance of the diary registers and the section officer will scrutinise the general diary register at least once in a week to see that it is properly maintained and the distribution and the issue of the receipts is done promptly and the branch officer will initial the diary register with date, after the scrutiny.(2) The register maintained for immediate/ important receipts ,will be put up by the Diarist to the section officer daily and the section incharge will ensure that all such cases have been duly put up by the dealing hands in time . In case where the files have not been received back from the higher authorities by due dates , a note should be sent to their personal staff listing the file number and date of submission of the pending cases.(3) It would be the primary responsibility of the section incharge of the concerned control to keep track record of the disposal of all receipts whether "Immediate" , "Urgent" or " Ordinary" , in order to ensure that all the receipts have been disposed off by the dealing hands with in the time limits fixed .The branch officer is responsible for ensuring that this task is regularly and effectively performed. Any negligence or carelessness on the part of the section-in- charge in discharging this responsibility should be viewed seriously.