MINUTES OF ONLINE (RTI) MEETING, RTI WELFARE GROUP REGISTERED NUMBER HPCD 3552 , RELATED TO BEHAVIOR OF THE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES WITH THE INFORMATION SEEKERS.

Regularly for two days on 12-1-2025 and 13-1-2025 online RTI meeting is being convened by the Chamba zone of RTI activists and the volunteers working for the transparency and accountability in the administration for which all the members and the other dignitaries particularly stating that officers of the some of the public authorities do not behave properly with the persons who seek information under the RTI Act adjudication and preferring complaints before the department of Forest and Rural Department etc related to their grievances, even though and more over, public information officers are not confined to furnish information but also to provide necessary help to the information seekers, wherever necessary and while providing information or rendering help to a person, it is important to be courteous to the information seeker and to respect high dignity. On the other hand meeting attended by the members of the Welfare Group registered number HPCD 3552 was attended by Shri Pyar Muhammed, Finance Secretary of the Group and Shri Prem Singh Tangania from Solan zone which has been too coordinated by Shri Uttam Chand Vashishth BDC member jadera, Shri Kapil sharma, Shri Tarsem and Shri Mahajan a leading press correspondent from the Chamba zone and all the active members were not satisfied with the working of the public authorities and other concerned officers required to ensure their commitments related to the section 4 of the RTI Act and must disclose statutory requirements and there should be no compromise on the captioned subject of transparency and accountability however public authorities are not doing needful under law code manual and seems to be failure in maintenance of records resulting in supply of required informations, demanded by the various Groups and the civil societies working for the welfare of society and circle and taking cognisance of the such irregularities at various levels of the exposed informations and broadcasting under the systematic confirmations of the news and the RTI documentary evidences produced for the investigation and verification of records for taking cognisance of the wrong doings at the levels of the public information officers and the other concerned taking no cognisance of the corrupt practices and wrong doings at the levels of the Government assessment and report for the necessary compensation and police report if found necessary under law code manual. So keeping in view the above decision of the DOPT it is becoming necessary to conduct training of the such public authorities and the information officers and the officers should be sensitized about the need of required demand under public utility and service for the courteous behavior with the information seekers, instead of unnecessary harassment by way of delay and dereliction of duty, even responsible for the maintenance of the records in consonance with Section 4 of the RTI Act, 2005,however taking no cognisance of the complaints and the RTI applications and Appeals for the doing needful under law code manual prefixed by the Constitution of India, in this behalf. :-- Er Fateh Chand Guleria, RTI Activist C/O Welfare Group registered number HPCD 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh, phone number 9459334377