MINUTES OF ONLINE RTI MEETING HELD FOR THE MECHANICAL OBSERVATION OF SECTION 19(6) OF RTI ACT, 2005 ASSURED BY THE DoP&T MEMO NUMBER 10/23/2007-IR DATED, 9-7-2007 , IN THIS BEHALF OF THE, QUASI-JUDICIAL FUNCTION BY THE (FAA)

A RTI welfare Meeting has been convened by the Chamba zone of activists and other volunteers and activists of the Association registered number HPCD, 3552 Bilaspur Himachal pradesh today on 10-8-2025 right from 8.00 am to 9-30 am which was attended by Shri Pyar Muhammed State Finance Secretary of the welfare Association, Shri Prem Singh Tangania from Solan zone Shri Uttam Chand Vashishth Volunteer and BDC Jadera Shri Chaman and some other new era entrants taking cognisance of the RTI promotion and benefits of the demand under public service/utility made by the parliamentary democracy to citizens of the country for their use and exercise in taking information and access to findings for the required disposal of first appeals under the Act, where in it is resented by the people of the area and circle that FAA do not examine the appeals judiciously and express their agreement with the decision of the Government of India, Department of personnel and training memo number 10/23/2007-IR dated, 9-7-2007 where in Section 19(6) making responsibility for the deciding appeals under the RTI Act, as a quasi -judicial function, it is therefore necessary, that the FAA should see to it that the justice is not only done but it should also appear to have been done. In order to do so, the order passed by the FAA should be a speaking order giving justification for the decision arrived at, And, if the FAA comes to a conclusion that the appellant should be supplied information in addition to what has been supplied to him by the public information officer, he may either (1) pass an order directing the public information officer to give such information to the appellant;or(2) he himself may give information to the appellant while disposing of the appeal. If, in any case, the public information officer does not implement the order passed by the appellate authority and the appellate authority feels that intervention of the higher authority is required to get his order implemented, he should bring the matter to the notice of the officer in the public authority (Head of the Department) competent to take action against the such public information officer from where further action may be initiated against the public information officer, in this behalf of the assured compliance and non - implementation of the information. Keeping in view the above situation and position of the decision making by the Government of India and department of the personnel, it is very clear that the FAA may do needful as per section 19(6) of the RTI, hence RTI activists and volunteers must follow section 19(6) of the RTI Act , 2005 , where there is no problem to have process for the directions, mechanically, instead of to follow SIC or CIC as the case may be :- Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director, RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal pradesh phone number, 9459334377