THE ROUTINE WORK OF GOVERNANCE, WHERE GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONARIES ARE REQUIRED TO MAKE DECISION IN A DISCRETIONARY MANNER BUT BROAD GUIDING PRINCIPLES MUST BE FOLLOWED IN SOME RULE OR THE OTHER AND JUSTICE BE DONE TO APPLICANTS

All the Government departments have specific duties and responsibilities under the respective allocations of pertinent law code manual issued by the appropriate Government. The Constitutional provisions and statutes each department is required to implement, as clearly laid down in the allocation of business. The manner of disposal of matters assigned to each department/Ministry is described in the transaction of business rules. In this connections the every public authority is required to undertake procedural compliance in the course of implementing the programme or the Scheme and every operation mandated under the allocation of business read with the transaction of business would be linked to a specific decision making chain. All Government officers have to follow laid down office procedure manual or the other rules which give details of how representations, petitions and applications from citizens must be dealt with. Templates, formats and basic steps of decision making are briefly explained in the said manuals and these descriptions constitute the elements of decision making processes in general. 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 rules or the other. As such in respect of guidelines mentioned above, the decision making chain should be identified 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, but it is regretted to point out the vision of request before the FAA where the authorities must verify the facts of involved decision making powers of each officer including powers of supervision over subordinates however there is no such correction in the information supplied and the wrong assessment and adverse affects explaining misleading information instead of correct and complete information to the appellant is becoming a routine practice of the departments like police and the administration, which is against the natural justice and requires experience hand supervision over subordinates, so that correctness and accuracy may be obtained in the decision making chain and hierarchy:-- Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh phone number 9459334377