Dear Friends
This is just to inform you about the utter inefficiency and confusion
prevailing in the office of CIC, New Delhi and particularly the office of Ms
Deepak Sandhu, CIC
I had submitted the following complaints with regard to non supply of info
against my RTI applications sent to Ms Aparajita Jaggi, PIO & RPFCII,RO Delhi
South, Bhavishya Nidhi Bhawan Wazirpur, Delhi 52.
Sl# RTI Appl Date/
Date Sent CIC Complnt
Date Sent Diary No & Date in CIC Office Regn No & Date in CIC Office Hearing
Scheduled/ Held
1 24/12/08/
23/12/08 08/04/09/
09/04/09 20248
21.04.09 CIC/LS/A/09/000525
Dt 11.05.09 21.07.09
2 09/02/09/
11/02/09 30/05/09/
30/05/09 30423
09.06.09 CIC/LS/A/09/000738
Dt 14.07.09 21.07.09
Not Applicable 10/09/09/
10/09/09 52807
18.09.09 Linked to above. Not yet scheduled
3 18/02/09/
07/03/09 08/07/09/
08/07/09 38856
17.07.09 CIC/DS/A/09/000112
Date not known Not yet scheduled
4 09/06/09/
09/06/09 27/08/09/
28/08/09 50008
03.09.09 CIC/DS/A/09/000111
Date not known Not yet scheduled
5 21/05/09/
21/05/09 03/09/09/
28/08/09 50013
03.09.09 CIC/DS/A/09/000049
Date not known Not yet scheduled
6 27/07/09/
28/08/09 20/10/09/
22/10/09 61180
27.10.09 CIC/DS/A/09/000???
Date not known Not yet scheduled
7 03/09/09/
09/09/09 21/10/09/
23/10/09 62009 CIC/DS/A/09/000022
Date not known 23.12.09
8 24/11/09/
24/11/09 31/12/09/
04/01/10
In spite of reminders dated 31.12.09 and 25.02.10 to Ms Sandhu, CIC, the
hearings on cases 3 to 8 (except 7) are not scheduled yet. Could someone
suggest what further action could be taken in this matter.
The following interesting decisions were given by Ms Sandhu, CIC after the
hearing held on 23.12.09 (item no 7 above, complaint no
CIC/DS/C/2009/000022-DS):
Para 4 (i) It is observed that it takes about three weks or more for an RTI
application to travel from Central Registry of the public authority where it is
received to reach the desk of the PIO, who then, takes 30 days from that day to
process the case,
4(ii) The public authority is directed to streamline its procedure for
receipt of RTI applications and forward delivery to the PIO which should not
take more than two working days on an average and send a copy of instructions
issued in this regard to the Commission.
4(iii) It is also observed that the public authority rejects/returns the
applications of beneficieries several times on different grounds instead of
clubbing all the deficiencies and issuing a single letter. This causes
harassment to the applicant while also causing unnecessary delay. The public
authority may issue internal guidelines in this regard.
5 In view of the fact that the full information asked for by the applicant
has since been provided along with the cheques for the amounts due by the
public authority, the delay is condoned and the penalty proceedings are dropped.
I give my following comments on the above judgement just for consideration of
the members and if these points could be taken up with CIC for follow up in his
office:
Para 4(ii) gives some directions about streamlining of procedures for receipt
of RTI applications and their forward delievey to PIOs in public offices. Would
it ot be desirable if the CIC office itself, also a public authority, also
follows these directions in respect of complaints/2nd appeals receive in their
office.
Para 5 wrongly stated that all the information asked for by the applicant had
since been supplied by PIO. I had clearly brought out the deficiencies in
information supplied with request for supply of the remaining info in my
complaint, in my written statement given at the time of hearing and during my
verbal submission during the hearing. Instead of considering these
deficiencies, CIC asked me if I had since received the claim from the public
authority. When I said no, she asked me to confirm by letter when I receive it
and she would issue the orders thereafter. I confirmed after about a week that
the claim was since received. The CIC orders were apparently issued
thereafter. The point for consideration is as to how was CIC concerned with
receipt of claim while considering my complaint for non receipt of information
asked for under RTOA05.
mksinghal
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