My Dear Sarabjit, Thanks for your comment. Could you kindly clarify: What is the differance between statutory and non statutory complaints/representations. What criteria is used to classify them as statutory or non statutory. Thanks, mksinghal
________________________________ From: sroy1947 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, 5 August, 2009 1:26:44 PM Subject: [rti_india] Re: What action is taken by public authorities on peoples complaints/representations 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 rti_in...@yahoogrou ps.com, M K Singhal <mk.singhal@ ...> wrote: > > What action is taken by public authorities on peoples complaints/represen > tations: > I had, during the last three years submitted a number of complaints/represen > tations 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/represen tations. Fortunately, PIO sent me a copy each of the > first page of most of my complaints/represen tations on which the various > concerned officials had initialed without any notings and the > complaint/represent ation 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/represen tations to be given clearly and > also a copy of the rules according to which the complaints/represen tations > 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/represen tations 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] > See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check out Yahoo! Buzz. http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
