PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS OF APSIC -
2009
The summary is:
CIC CDA: Chief Information Commissioner C D
Arha
IC KSR: Information
Commissioner K Sudhakar Rao
IC
ASR: Information Commissioner Ambatty Subba Rao
IC
DR: Information Commissioner Dileep
Reddy
1. CIC CDA
and IC
DR are the most “traveled” in the APSIC and have been
traveling for 59 and 40 days respectively during 2009.
2. IC KSR only
conducted hearings on 15% of the days he attended office – that is one out of 6
days.
3. The average number of days on which hearings were conducted in APSIC
is 22% or about 1 out of 5 days.
4. The average number of days on which
hearings were conducted when the IC’s did attend office is 1 out of 4 days – ie
about 26%
5. The pendancy of cases increased by nearly 95% during 2009 for
APIC as a unit. The highest increase for pendancy was in the case of
CIC CDA – 120%.
This
could have been reduced in case the IC’s had heard more number of cases per day
or had utilised more days for hearing cases. If the IC’s had just heard cases
on
an additional 25 days during the year, the pendancy would be near zero.
It
must be noted here that APSIC has three sets of Holidays during the year –
Sankranti (4 days), Summer (4 weeks) and Dussehra (4 days).
6. A healthy
trend during the year was that the APSIC started accepting direct Complaints
under Sec 18 of the RTI
Act – which it did not do previously. The total number of Complaints disposed
during 2009 were 73 (48 allowed, 5 rejected and 20 “returned).
7. The
disposal rate per hearing day is also very low: only 10.5 cases disposed per
day when
hearings were actually conducted, for the entire APSIC.
The disposal rate per
day on which office was attended by the ICs is a abysmal 2.7 cases per day on
an average,
for the entire APSIC
8. The average cost per decision of the APSIC (excluding
returns) is Rs. 10,075 which is lower than what was last year, because the
number of cases heard has gone up substantially.
9. Total No. of Penalties
imposed was 13 and the total amount was Rs. 1,41,250.00
If you compare this
with the total number of appeals/complaints allowed - 2134 - the figure of only
13 penalties appears abysmally low.
10. 3 disciplinary actions were
recommended by the APSIC. But one was withdrawn and one was rejected by the
government...therefore effectively only one disciplinary
action.
The detailed analysis is
attached in a pdf file
RTIwanted
