CENTRALLY SPONSORED SCHEME ON IMPROVING TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN GOVERNMENT THROUGH EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, COMPONENT FOR ASSISTANCE SOUGHT

Friends, It is difficult to follow centrally sponsored Scheme on improving Transparency and Accountability in Government through effective implementation of Right to Information Act, in the present situation and circumstances of the codal formalities where in details of component for which assistance sought is related to the institution ie SIC/ATI /CTI with particulars asked by the Secretary in the case of the SIC as per GI, DoP&T memo number F. No. 1/6/2012 -IR dated 2-7-2015 . In addition to other codal formalities detail of proposed activities, timelines, details of estimates of expenditures activity wise and total amount of grant required is also verified by the Secretary in the case of SIC and it is certified that (1) All funds released under the centrally sponsored schemes on Strengthening capacity building and awareness generation for the effective implementation of the RTI Act and improving transparency and accountability in Government through effective implementation of RTI Act in the previous years have been fully utilized for the purpose for which they were released and utilization certificates have been submitted along with statement of physical achievement. (2) Once the estimates of expenditure are approved as reasonable and the grant assessed on the basis of these estimates, they shall not be modified by the institution without prior approval of the sanctioning authority of the grant. Keeping in view the above codal formalities said application would be entertained by the Government corridor from where applicant may process his appeals and applications for the information under law code manual, as such it is difficult to obtain such approvals from the Government/SIC , as working and fighting for the right cause of demand under public utility and service for the good governance and accountability and challenging the things before the institutional mechanism, where it may conduct audit of such financial assistance required for hand holding and based on their proposals, more so, it would be desirable that such guidelines are adopted by the state Governments as well DoP&T would grant funds under this scheme as follows:-- (1) If any state Government is willing to implement these guidelines in their respective public authorities, ATIs can do the necessary hand holding of the PAs. Proposals are invited from ATIs in this regard and financial assistance required for such hand holding shall be provided to the ATIs based on their proposals. (11) ATIs can also conduct audit of suo motu disclosure of public authorities in their respective states either themselves or through an NGO /agency.Funds would be granted to ATIs to conduct such audit based on their proposals. Thereafter the proposals may be sent to department of personnel and training, North block, New Delhi:-- Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh phone number, 9459334377