FYI N vikramsimha , KRIA Katte , #12 Sumeru Sir M N Krishna Rao Road , Basvangudi < Bangalore 560004.
--- On Tue, 22/9/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: DNA E-Paper : Archives department to be trained in the RTI Act > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, 22 September, 2009, 3:32 PM > DNA Epaper > > This message was sent to you by > [email protected] > as a service of > http://epaper.dnaindia.com > > Comments from sender : > yes WE caught them off gaurd > ------------------------------ > Full Story can be found at > http://epaper.dnaindia.com/epapermain.aspx?edorsup=Main&queryed=9&querypage=2&boxid=27948802&parentid=8798&eddate=09/22/2009 > > > archives department to be trained in the rti > act the > entire department will undergo training after it failed to > reply to an rti application bosky khanna. > bangalore it will be > the first time that an entire department of the government > will undergo training in the right to information act. > this will be done following instructions from the > information commissioner to the state's archives > department. orders to conduct the training at the > administrative training institute, mysore, were passed on > august 18, 2009. however, the process is yet to begin. > last year, two citizens applied to the department for > information pertaining to the ongoing bababudangiri case in > the supreme court, over a shrine named after a sufi saint > baba budan in chikmagalur, venerated by both hindus and > muslims. > an rti application was filed to obtain information on eight > proceedings relating to the maharaja of mysore. material > dating back to 1893 was requested on november 20, 2007. the > application was made following an announcement posted on the > department's website that eight documents of 114 pages > relating to the case were available with it. under the rti > rules, it is mandatory to provide information within 30 > days. however, the archives department remained silent until > july 2008. > trustee of the rti study centre, p vikram simha, said, > "there was no response from the department, which could > be a refusal. we then approached the archives officer. since > no reply was given, we approached the information > commissioner. we had paid rs114 for the 114 pages of the > document, but the department said they had only 30 pages. > they further said that the postal order should have been > directed to the archives director and claimed that they were > unable to cash the postal order. under rti rules, every > department should have a public information accounts > officer." simha said that the department officials also > claimed that they were unaware of the rti rules, and > operated under central government rules. "but even the > central government order says that all its officers should > have their own accounts officers," he said. > [email protected] > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =For news updates throughout the > day, visit > www.dnaindia.com= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > = = = Yahoo! India has a new look. Take a sneak peek http://in.yahoo.com/trynew
