Non-availaibilty of information in government offices killing RTI
Lucknow | Sunday, Nov 22 2009 IST
Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah has said the
government should make available all its informations to the citizens
without asking to save the Right To Information Act.
Speaking as the chief guest in the fifth national seminar and workshop
of Action Group for Right To Information (AGRI), Mr Habibullah said
here today it was proposed in the RTI Act that the government would
disclose all its informations on websites and noticeboards after 120
days of the enactment of the act but did not do so.
''Chief Information Commission used to dispose 200 application and
this number has been increased to 2000 applications per month but we
are still lacking in disposing of 100 to 200 applications per month.
Implementation of Article 4 of the Act is the only way to eliminate
this problem,'' Mr Habibullah said.
According to Article 4 of the RTI, the government had to disclose all
its information on its websites and notice boards to make them it to
the public without filing RTI applications but government has not done
it so far.
Mr Habibullah said satisfactory implementation of the RTI helped the
Shiela Dixit government to make a hatrick in Delhi. ''Just after the
Mumbai attack of 26/11, people who were angry with the government
voted the Shiela Dixt government for the third time because Delhi has
done satisfactory job in implantation of the RTI,'' claimed Mr
Habibullah.
He accepted that the government has not made adequate efforts to aware
public about this act.
''Except Doordarshan and All India Radio, the government did not
attempt to aware people like consumer rights campaign,'' he said.
He said that people of Jammu and Kashmir should also get the rights to
question the government.
''They are also hounorable citizens of country and should have the
rights to ask questions to the government,'' he added.
RTI was not into force in J and K and is being introduced there soon.
Mr Habibullah is to take the charge of Information Commissioner there.
In the workshop, RTI activist Shekhar Singh, said, quoting a survey,
that the Public Information Officers (PIO) of Uttar Pradesh misbehaved
with the applicants.
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