THE PROCEDURE FOLLOWED IN THE DECISION MAKING PROCESSES UNDER RTI AND RTS INCLUDING CHANNELS OF SUPERVISON AND ACCOUNTABILITY MUST HAVE IDENTIFIED FLOW OF CHART EXPLAINING THE RANK /GRADE OF THE PUBLIC FUNCTIONARIES INVOLVED IN DECISION MAKING PROCESS.

All Government departments have specific duties and responsibilities under the respective allocation of business Rules issued by the appropriate Government. The constitutional provisions and statutes each department is required to implement as laid down in the allocation of business. The manner of disposal of matters assigned to each Department/Ministry would have a specific set of schemes, which they are required to implement directly or through their subordinate offices or other designated agencies. These documents contains the specific operations that every public authority is required to undertake in the course of implementing the programme or scheme. 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 gives 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 such manuals and these descriptions constitute the elements of decision making processes in general. The powers of each officer including the powers of supervison over subordinates involved in the chain of decision making must also be spelt out next to the flow chart and this design of presentation should then be extended to cover all statutory and discretionary operations that are part of the public authorities mandate under the allocation of business and should be identified in the form of a flow chat explaining the Rank /grade of the public functionaries involved in the decision making process and the specific stages in the decision making hierarchy, additionally in the routine work of governance, Government functionaries are required to make decisions in a discretionary manner but at the same time broad guiding principles are laid down in some rule or the other, so that accuracy and correctness may be presented in the simplified version of the decision making procedure that is of interest to a common man :-- Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh phone number, 9459334377