NOTE: " .. in view of requirements of the rule framed under the Act for further processing of the petitions."
Can someone please clarify which rule requires this ?? Surely not the one requiring all appeals to be "verified" !!! <snip> PRESS RELEASE The Central Information Commission formally launched its online portal dedicating it to the citizens for online filing of complainant/appeals. Sri Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner executed the launch in the presence of Secretary, DOPT, DG, NIC, representative of the DIT and the Information Commissioners, at the Conference Hall of RVNL, August Kranti Bhawan, New Delhi. It is stated that the web enabled solution is simple to use helping citizens to file Complaints/Appeal anytime and anywhere. A choice is made available to the visitor either to submit the form at one go or save the form as a draft mode for final submission at a later date. Once it is finally submitted, the complainant/appellant is prompted by the system to take a print out of the filled form, sign the form and send the signed form to the CIC in view of requirements of the rule framed under the Act for further processing of the petitions. A formal presentation about the salient features of CIC Online has been made. It is impressed that the dedicated portal will serve the requirements of all three categories of the stakeholders –RTI Users, information providers and the adjudicators. The users not only can submit appeal/complaints online but also can save the draft and update it at later stage. The stakeholders can track the status of their cases online without either having to visit the commission or having to make enquiries over telephone. The users can all the contents of a page irrespective of browser, assistive technologies and the compatible devices. It is stated to be an important feature of the portal. Sri Wajahat Habibullah, CIC while launching the portal stated that the the complaint/appeals can now be filed even by the visually impaired citizens without seeking any assistance. He expected an increase in the number of complaint/appeals from Hindi speaking belt keeping in view its accessibility in Hindi as well. Sri B B Srivastava, Secretary, CIC while welcoming the guests stated that the portal is an outcome of various inputs of all possible stakeholders including the CIC/Information Commissioners. The Launch concluded by thanking all the participants including the press and media.
