NODAL OFFICERS OF EACH PUBLIC AUTHORITY BE MADE RESPONSIBLE TO PROPERLY FACILITATE PEOPLE TO TO ACCESS THE RECORDS/INFORMATION.

RTI activists and volunteers are working on behalf of the demand under public service required for the good governance and accountability where law of limitation could not be ignored by the public authorities, as facing penal action within the provision made and also responsible for the charter of public accountability in the interest of public welfare and maintaining information facilitations centres, required to be set up in each public authority, where public dealing is involved to educate the citizens about the information/documents available on the website of the department concerned and to provide printed publications to the citizens the categories of information that are frequently being  sought under the RTI Act and provide copies of information as per RTI Rules, 2012. The public authorities shall constitute consultative committees consisting of office bearers of key stakeholders, associate on rotational basis to have a systematic and regular interaction between the officials of the public authorities to advice what information to be uploaded as suo motu. In each public authority a committee of the Public information officers and FAAs with rich experience of dealing with RTI applications and appeals is set up to identify the categories of information that are frequently asked by applicants. Such information must be disclosed in the public domain to make it more user public friendly and should also be reviewed at regular intervals. Information that is proactively disclosed must be properly categorised and organised in such a manner that it facilitates easy retrieval. Information on the website must be organised in a searchable and retrievable database to enable people to access the records. The nodal officer of each public authority be made responsible for this. Website, and other medium and publication of each public authority, relating to section 4 compliance must carry the date (Where appropriate for each bit of information) on which the information was uploaded/printed.(Competent authority has directed vide DOPT number dated 15 October 2019).