RESPECTIVE CHIEF SECRETARY OF STATE GOVERNMENT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH BEING HEAD OF THE BUREAUCRACY, REQUESTED TO REVIEW THE PROGRESS OF APPOINTMENTS OF SCIC AND SIC IN THE DESIGNATED OFFICE, AND HAVE ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS

The Government of Himachal Pradesh and the respective Chief Secretary of the State government is requested to review the progress of the implementation of the appointment orders under sub section (3) of section 15 related to the State Chief Information Commissioner and the State information Commissioner lying vacant since long for which the matter has been brought to the notice of the honourable Chief Minister and the Secretary Administrative reforms but no action has been taken on the captioned subject matter deliberation required for this progress of implementation of the orders for which the directions of the Chief Minister must have monitoring at the levels of the Secretaries Committee on administrative reforms working under the Chairmanship of the respective Chief Secretary of state government and the said committee functions as a management instrument at the highest level of the bureaucracy, so as to achieve strategic coordination and ideas and the experiences required for the feed back, and the analysis mechanism to help the policy coordination. The issue and matter has also been decided by the honourable Supreme Court of India in this behalf for doing needful under the provision made at the levels of the state government and also for the Central Information commissioner at Government of India levels deliberation and the recommendations as related to the advisory nature and final decision is required to be taken by the appropriate Government on the recommendations of the Committtee which includes the Honourable Chief Minister of the state and a Minister and also the leader of the opposition under provision for this Act to exercise the powers conferred on, and to perform the functions assigned to, it under this Act . Further it is submitted in the matter that the state Chief Information commissioner and the State information commissioners shall be persons of eminence in public life with wide knowledge and experience in law, science and technology, social service, management, journalism, mass media or administration and good governance and shall not be a member of the parliament or Member of the Legislature of any state or Union territory, as the case may be, or hold any other office of profit or connected with any political party or carrying on any business or pursuing any business:-- Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh phone number, 9459334377