PROCEDURE FOR DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES UNDER RTI, INCLUDING CHANNELS OF SUPERVISION AND ACCOUNTABILITY AND GUIDELINES FOR DETAILING THE DECISION-MAKING

The guidelines for detailing the decision making processes of the Right to Information Act, 2005 specifically identifying the prospects of decision making chain in the form of a flow chart explaining the rank/grade of the public functionaries involved in the decision making process and the specific stages in the decision making hierarchy required for the major outputs/tangible results/services /goods as applicable, that it is responsible for providing to the public or to who so ever is the client of the public authority. Additionally, in the routine work of governance, Government functionaries are required to make decisions in a discretionary manner but broad guiding principles are laid down in some rule or the other. For example the general financial rules lay down procedures for a variety of operations relating to the government finances. How sanctions must be accorded for incurring expenditure;How losses to government must be reported;how responsibility for losses may be fixed on any government servant;how budgets demand for grants are prepared and submitted;how public Works must be sanctioned and executed;how commodities and services may be procured by a public authority;are all explained in the law code manual, which are updated from time to time. The challenge is to present a simplified version of the decision making procedure that is of interest to a common citizen, but it is regretted to point that the public information officers and the FAA taking no cognisance of said guidelines required for detailing the decision making and the state government failed to follow sub section (3) of section 12 of the Right to information Act, 2005 and there is no SIC and SCIC and the State information commission is idle because of the defunct position and status of the designated officers responsible for hearing the Appellants and decision making under second Appeals before the Commissioners, more over state government is responsible to follow Rank/grade of the public functionaries involved in the decision making process and the specific stages in the decision making hierarchy:-- Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552,Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh phone number, 9459334377.