SIC orders action against principal secy
9 Jul 2009, 0336 hrs IST, TNN
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Lucknow/SIC-orders-action-against-principal-secy/articleshow/4755438.cms
LUCKNOW: The State Information Commission (SIC) took a strict stand against the
principal secretary of public enterprises department, Sunanda Prasad and
ordered disciplinary action against her for not taking the provisions of the
Right to Information (RTI) Act seriously.
The order passed by information commissioner, Gyanendra Sharma, in one of the
recent judgments stated that the official invited disciplinary action against
her for interfering in the work of the public information officer (PIO) of her
department, for not taking her role of first appeals authority seriously and
for violating the provisions of the Act. This is for the first time that
commission has ordered disciplinary action against an IAS officer of the rank
of principal secretary.
The case pertains to an RTI query made by an applicant, Rajeshwar Prasad, to
the PIO of the department on January 21, 2007, about the appointment and pay
scale of one of the employees of the department, Neerja Krishna. After
applicant approached the commission, the department was asked to submit the
entire details (files) on the action taken by the department on the query of
the applicant.
“The findings are shocking, the Act is three-years old in the state but even
most of the higher level officials are ignorant about its existence...moreover,
senior officials want to fail the system by way of which the Act is to be
implemented,” is the observation made by the commissioner in the order.
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