DISCIPLINARY ACTION AGAINST THE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICERS AND THE ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE STATE INFORMATION COMMISSION

Transparency issues are required to be experienced with positive impact on the captioned subject of concerns and suggested improvements, as well as timely updates, as such technologies driven solutions can work for the cooperation and create comprehensive input before making any decision on the administrative reforms for which the RTI activists and volunteers are trying their levels best to do needful under law code manual prefixed by the RTI Act in this behalf, however number of cases are lying pending before the State Information Commission and there is no consideration for the decision making at the level of the Second Appellate authority working for the good governance and accountability in this behalf. On the other hand, it is realised that welfare policies issued by the state Government for the protection of action taken in good faith intended to be done under this Act by the SIC or CIC, as the case may be are not done , so required for the unorganised workers of the RTI Welfare Groups and Organisations and unable to remain united, however online meetings and events are arranged for this purpose of the good governance and accountability required for their access to information and decision making under the law code manual prefixed by the Constitution of India in this behalf. More so, Where the SIC or CIC as the case may be, at the time of deciding any complaint or appeal is of the opinion that the public information officer has without any reasonable cause and persistently, failed to receive an application for information or has not furnished information within the time specified or malafidely  denied the request for information or knowingly given incorrect, incomplete or misleading information or destroyed information, which was the subject of the request or obstructed in any manner in furnishing the information, it may recommend for disciplinary action against the public information officer, but it is regretted for the action at the levels of SIC or CIC and number of complaints are decided with simple warning to the public information officers and no reports are furnished which is laid before the each house of the Parliament and Assembly, as the case may be. This report, inter alia, has to include information about the number of requests made to each public authority, the number of decisions, where the applicants were not entitled to access to documents requested for, the provisions of the Act under which these decisions were made and the number of times such provisions were invoked, the amount of charges collected by each public authority under the Act. Each Ministry/Department is required to collect such information from all the public authorities under its jurisdiction and send the same to the Commission. The PIO should maintain the requisite information in this regard so that it may be supplied to their administrative Ministry/Department soon after the end of the year, which in turn may supply to the Commission:-- Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director, RTI Welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552,Bilaspur Himachal pradesh phone number, 9459334377