NODAL OFFICERS OF THE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES SHALL CONSTITUTE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEES CONSISTING OF OFFICE BEARERS OF KEY STAKE HOLDERS, ASSOCIATIONS ON ROTATIONAL BASIS

The competent authority has further directed under the RTI act, 2005 that the public authorities shall constitute consultative Committees consisting of the office bearers of key stakeholders, Association on rotational basis to have a systematic and regular interaction between the officials of the public authorities to advice to what information to be uploaded as suo motu. (2) Information and facilitation centres may be set up in each public authority, where public dealing is involved to educate the citizens about the information/documen available on the website of the department concerned and to provide painted publications to the citizens the categories of the information that are frequently being sought under the RTI Act and provide copies of information as per the RTI rules, 2012.(3) In each public authority, a committee of 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 friendly and should also be reviewed at regular intervals. (4) Information that is proactively disclosed must be properly categorized 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. (5) 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. Nodal officer in each ministry/public authority should be appointed, a senior officer not below the rank of a joint Secretary and not below rank of Additional HOD in case of attached offices for ensuring compliance with the proactive disclosure guidelines. The nodal officer would work under the supervision of the Secretary of the ministry/Department or the HOD of the attached office, as the case may be. Nodal officers of the ministry/Department and HOD separately should also ensure that the formations below the Ministry/Department/Attached office also disclose the information as per the proactive disclosure guidelines, however it is regretted to point out the non compliance at the levels of the APIOs in general and the applicants are enforced to approach the FAAs :-- Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh phone number, 9459334377.