ALL DEPARTMENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE TO MAKE AN ANALYSIS OF THE INFORMATION WHICH IS SOUGHT FROM APPLICANTS AND MUST PROVIDE IT ON THEIR WEBSITE, AS SUO MOTU DISCLOSURE.

Every citizen of the country is responsible to follow empowerment given by the RTI Act adjudication and obtain the results of work and conduct respond under the provision made for good governance and charter of public accountability maintained by the public authorities and too by the public information officers, deputed for the said work and duty under law code manual prefixed by the constitution of India in this behalf. Subsequently OM number 1/1/20-13IR, dated 21-10-2014, all Ministries/Departments were requested to take action required for uploading of replies related to the RTI applications and first Appeals on their respective websites. In this context the department related Parliamentary Standing Committee on personnel, public grievances, Law and justice has made the following observations/Recommendations "The directions given by the DOP&T in their guidelines for implementations of section 4 of the RTI Act which required the appointment of a joint Secretary rank officer as the nodal officer should be followed in letter and spirit. The committee feels that all Ministries/Department/ Organisations themselves must encourage suo motu disclosure of relevant information. The committee suggests the publishing of RTI requests and their replies on the websites of the Department so that duplicity of requests is avoided. All departments must make an analysis of information which is sought most often from applicants and provide it on their website as suo motu disclosure. (2) The above mentioned recommendations of the Department related Parliament Standing Committee on personnel, public grievances, law and justice are hereby brought to the notice of all Ministries/Departments and the public authorities for strict compliance. (3) The contents of this OM may also be brought to the notice of Attached/Subordinate officers and public sector undertakings for necessary compliance (G.I., Dept. of Per. &Trg., OM. number F. No. 1/1/2013-IR, dated the 9th july, 2015.) Er Fateh Chand Guleria, RTI Welfare Society registered number HPCD 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh phone number 9459334377.

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