PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER IS RESPONSIBLE TO FOLLOW TIME LIMIT FOR DISPOSAL OF APPEAL UNDER RTI ACT, 2005 OR MAY BE PENALIZED UNDER LAW CODE MANUAL PREFIXED BY SECTION-20 .

TIME LIMIT FOR DISPOSAL OF APPEAL:-- The appeal should be disposed of within thirty days of receipt of the Appeal. In exception cases, the Appellant authority may take forty five days for its disposal. However, in cases where disposal of appeal takes more than thirty days, the appellant authority should record in writing the reasons for such delay. (2) If al appellate authority comes to a conclusion that the appellant should be supplied information in addition to what has been supplied to him by the Public Information officer, he may either (a) pass an order directing the public information officer to give such information to the appellant, or (b) he himself may give information to the appellant while disposing of the appeal. In the first case, the appellate authority should ensure that the information ordered by him to be supplied is supplied to the appellant immediately. It would, however, be better if the appellant authority chooses the second course of action and he himself furnishes the information along with the order passed by him in the matter. (3) If, in any case, the public information officer doesn't implement the order passed by the appellate authority and the appellate authority feels that intervention of higher authority is required to get his order implemented, he should bring the matter to the notice of the officer in the public authority competent to take action against the public information officer. Such competent officer shall take necessary action so as to ensure implementation of the provisions of the RTI Act.