GUIDELINES FOR THE APPLICATIONS UNDER RTI ACT PUBLICATIONS AND RTS ACT ADJUDICATION, REQUIRED TO MAINTAINED BY THE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES.

The Right to information Act,2005 empowers the citizens to get information from the public authority and the Public information officers (PIO) of a public authority playing a vital role in making the right of the citizens to a reality show and responsible to provide the information to the applicants and the said Act casts specific duties on the public information officers and make liable for Penalty in case of delay and default.It is therefore essential for the Public information officers to follow law code manual prefixed by the constitution of India in this behalf and study carefully the duty of work and conduct and understand the provision correctly.The PIO should particularly kept in view while dealing with the applications under the Act ibid .The information requested by the applicant may be any material in any form and it includes, documents,memos ,email, opinions,advises ,press releases,circulars ,orders ,log books of the vehicles ,contracts ,reports and returns,papers , samples,models ,data material held in any electronic form and it also includes the information relating to any private body which can be accessed by the public authority under any law for the time being in force. A citizen has a right to seek such information from a public authority which is held by the public authority or which is held under its control .The right includes the inspection of work documents and the records , taking notes extracts of the certified copy of the documents of records ,and taking certified samples of materials held by the public authority or held under the control of the public authority. The Act gives the citizens a right to information at par with the Members of the Parliament and the members of the state legislatures . According to the RTI act publications issued by the government,the information which can not be denied to the Parliament or the state legislature,shall not be denied to any person .A citizen has a right to obtain an information in the form of diskettes ,floppies ,tapes ,video cassettes or in any other electronic mode or through print outs provided such information is stored in the public domain/computer or in any other device from which the said information may be transferred to diskettes etc .The information to the applicants should be ordinarily provided in the form in which it is sought, however if the supply of information sought in a particular form would disproportionately divert the resources of the public authority or may cause harm to the safety of preservation of the records , supply of information in that form may be denied . Only such information is required to be supplied under the Act which already exists and is held by the public authority or held under the control of the public authority.As such it is necessary to follow the RTS act adjudication and demand for the right to service guarantee act under the provision made and created for the charter of public accountability which can not be denied to any person or citizen related to the subject matter deliberation required to be maintained by the government and the public authorities for which the designated officer is responsible to do the needful under law code manual and process the work of the applicant well with in the law of limitations failing which too responsible for the penal action against disciplinary action proposed by the RTS act adjudication in this behalf.As for as the state of HP is concerned the both of the RTI and RTS act adjudication are maintained by the State information commission.