COMPLAINTS AND APPEALS ARE KEPT PENDING BY THE STATE INFORMATION COMMISSION BECAUSE OF VACANT SLOTS IN THE POSITION OF (SCIC) AND (SIC) SINCE RETIREMENT OF THE FORMER DESIGNATED POSTS

It is becoming difficult to decide the related and pertinent issues of the RTI and the RTS  , as the State information Commission is working without single designated post of Commissioner, since long and the FAAs are taking no cognisance of the First Appeals in this behalf of the quasi judicial function under Section 19(6) of the Right to information Act, 2005 . Members of the society and circle are thinking to left the much needed process of the Second Appeals, keeping in view the vacant slots of the SCIC and SIC where number of requests have been made before the appropriate Government to issue necessary orders of the appointments of SCIC and SIC but there is no decision making at the levels of higher authority and people are facing problems because of this break down in the system generated by the government for transparency and accountability in the need to be honest for the duty and responsibility, as such it is not just a legal obligation but also a moral imperative and a policy reforms at the levels of the state Government, where in the Government of India has appointed all the vacant posts of the CIC after decision of the honorable Supreme Court of India but it is regretted to point the non compliance at the levels of state Government of Himachal pradesh and there is no mechanism for the second Appeal, and the staff of the State information commission very much idle because of this failure of the administrative positions, kept vacant since the retirement of the former post of SCIC and SIC for which the demand and the right to process second Appeals before the Commission has yet no security analysis, where in very few public authorities are taking cognisance of the section 19(6) of right to information Act, 2005 in the capacity of First Appellate authority and in general number of complaints and Appeals are kept pending at the levels of FAA and SIC, even though cases are overdue for the decision making at every levels of the Appellate authority:-- Er Fateh Chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association, Bilaspur Himachal pradesh phone number 9459334377