Dear Mr Singhal 1) The State is not obliged to take heed /notice / action on your "non-statutory" complaint / representation. The normal Office / Secretarial practice /norms / procedures ensure that all 'dak' received is duly circulated to those concerned and filed away - this seems to have been properly done in your case. Sometimes they are required to send you an acknowledgement of receipt. Many states have implemented Public Grievance Commissions / Offices - you can approach them in such "non-statutory" matters. For Statutory Complainst on the other hand, there is a whole regime of time-bound systems to resolve grievances of those affected - these are also known as "alternate remedies" to be availed prior to filing Writs.
2) It appears that you are "misusing" RTI Act for your 3 year old complaints (which appear to be non-statutory complaints / representations). At best RTI Act allows for disclosure of "4(1)(b)(vii) - the particulars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with, or representation by, the members of the public in relation to the formulation of its policy or implementation thereof;" This is all you are allowed to know. This information is to be proactively disclosed on website of the P/As concerned. In case of non-publication, you can approach the High Court for your State directly. Sarbajit MODERATOR --- In [email protected], M K Singhal <mk.sing...@...> wrote: > > What action is taken by public authorities on peoples > complaints/representations: > I had, during the last three years submitted a number of > complaints/representations to CEO, Noida Authority, Industrial Development > Commissioner, UP, Chief Secretary, UP and the Chief Minister UP . I never got > any reply to them. I requested PIO, Noida Authority to send me copy of the > notes and orders written by various authorities concerned on my said > complaints/representations. Fortunately, PIO sent me a copy each of the first > page of most of my complaints/representations on which the various concerned > officials had initialed without any notings and the complaint/representation > seemed to have been filed by the lowest official concerned thereafter. > Industrial Development Comissioner, the Chief Secretary and the CM, UP just > forwarded them to CEO Noida Authority who initialed them (without any noting) > and passed them on to his lower officials to be also initialed by each of > them (without any noting by any of them) and finally to be filed. Since the > names of the officials who initialed were generally not legible, I again put > in another RTI application requesting for the names of the officials > initialing my various complaints/representations to be given clearly and > also a copy of the rules according to which the complaints/representations > are disposed off/filed in Noida Authority office. I did not receive any reply > to it. The matter is pending under 1st appeal for the last over 3 months. Can > anybody inform me of any rules that may have been made by any govt for > disposal of complaints/representations received from the public. Thanks. > Mksinghal > > > Love Cricket? Check out live scores, photos, video highlights and more. > Click here http://cricket.yahoo.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
