keeping in view the recent supreme court verdicts,what are the legal tangles in these 8 appointments? if some one onboard has order of hon. supreme court,please share. regards urvashi ============================== http://www.newkerala.com/news/ 8 new Information Commissioners to be appointed soon in Uttar Pradesh Lucknow, Aug 23 (UNI) Uttar Pradesh government today short listed eight persons from various fields for appointment on vacant posts of Information Commissioners (ICs) in UP State Information Commission (UPSIC). The list would now be sent for Governor's approval by the Chief Minister very soon. The meeting of three member panel, authorised for selection of information commissioners and chief information commissioner, was held at Chief Minister's official residence where eight names were short listed from a list of 112 persons who had applied for coveted posts. Currently only two information commissioners Khadijatul Kubra and Gyan Prakash Maurya were holding offices in UPSIC as eight posts were lying vacant hampering functioning of the commission responsible for implementation of Right to Information (RTI) Act in the state. The selection panel including Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, minister for Health and Medical Education Ahmed Hasan and leader of opposition in state assembly Swami Prasad Maurya was constituted yesterday. According to sources, among persons selected for post of ICs were lawyers, former bureaucrats and media persons. The two members of the panel refrained from naming the persons selected and said, with approval of the Governor appointment of new information commissioners was likely to be announced very soon. Mr Maurya while coming out of the meeting, said, "the CM has been authorised for selection of Information Commissioners and I hope, with their appointment, UPSIC will work in a transparent and efficient manner." Since the appointment of chief information commissioner and information commissioners was solely depend on the ruling party, UPSIC was faced to allegations of politicisation which was denting its credibility and functioning both. Samajwadi party itself had held the appointment of present chief information commissioner R S Pankaj as political one which was aimed at serving interests of the then ruling BSP. The appointment of Khadijatul Kubra as information commissioner during previous BSP regime had invited much criticism from opposition and RTI activists. The apex court recently in an order have held political appointment responsible for over all detoriation in functioning of information commissions in the country. (UNI) ============================== http://www.deccanherald.com/ SC stays appointment of Information Commissioners in CIC New Delhi, Jul 20, 2012, (PTI) : The Supreme Court has asked the government not to appoint any more information commissioners in the Central Information Commission till it decides on the plea making it mandatory for the transparency body to have members from judicial background. A Bench comprising Justices A K Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar passed the order to this effect while reserving its judgement on the petition challenging the validity of section 12 of the Right to Information Act, 2005, which deals with the appointment of Chief Information Commissioner and 10 other information commissioners. The petition filed by one Namit Sharma has contended that since the work of the CIC under the RTI Act is mainly connected with the law, members in the transparency panel should have legal background. However, government has opposed the petition contending that since the function of the CIC is like a quasi-judicial body, it could not be made mandatory that the members should have judicial background. ============================== http://articles.timesofindia. Chief information commissioner appointment may hit a roadblock Joseph John, TNN Apr 22, 2012, 02.18AM IST Tags:roadblock|CIC|Chief information commissioner appointmentBHOPAL: The state government move to appoint chief information commissioner (CIC) by the end of April may hit a roadblock with the Supreme Court stating Friday that it would lay down guidelines to ensure that posts of information commissioners at the centre and state commissions do not become "property of a political set-up". The post of state's CIC is lying vacant following the retirement of P P Tiwari on March 26 this year. There are strong indications that chief secretary Avani Vaish, who is scheduled to retire on April 30, is in the race for the top RTI Commission post. While an information commissioner Mahesh Pandey relinquished his post on February 24 as his tenure ended, nine posts of information commissioners are also lying vacant in the state. The apex court bench, comprising Justice G S Singhvi and Justice S J Mukopadhaya on Friday made it clear that the court would now "lay down the law," taking strong exception to the manner in which candidates were being hand-picked by governments without making vacancies for appointment of information commissioners under the RTI Act known to the public. The court's observations came while hearing an appeal by those whose appointment as commissioners to the Tamil Nadu information commission was set aside by the TN high court. "Now, the state government cannot take any decision in haste. For the sake of ensuring greater transparency in the appointments under the historic transparency law, either the state will now have to wait till Supreme Court lays down the guidelines or it would have to follow the procedure adopted by the Department of Personnel and Training (DOPT) for appointment of commissioners to the central information commission," RTI activist Ajay Dubey told TOI. "We will submit a memorandum to the Governor soon, seeking a freeze on all appointments to state information commission till the Supreme Court laid down the guidelines," he said. RTI activists had already submitted a memorandum to the state government in November last year, pointing out lack of transparency in the selection and appointment of information commissioners and demanding action to ensure that appointments are made in a fair and transparent manner. Subsequently, the governor had forwarded the memorandum to the chief minister's office. Bureaucratic circles are tight-lipped over immediate fallout of the SC move to frame guidelines as name of incumbent state chief secretary Avani Vaish, IAS officer of 1975 batch, is already in circulation for state CIC post. "I think you are putting the cart before the horse. As of now, the procedures for selection are clearly mentioned in the RTI Act. It's a matter to be examined whether the procedure for appointments to information commissions in all states could be stalled till formulation of any such guidelines by the court," quipped a senior state government official. __._,_.___ |
Friday, August 24, 2012
8 new Information Commissioners to be appointed soon in Uttar Pradesh
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment