RTI Activists in Lucknow mount pressure on UPSIC to comply Section
4(1)(b) of RTI Act 2005
One of the Prime responsibilities of Information Commissions is to
ensure that all Public Authorities in their respective domains should
ensure strict compliance of section 4(1)(b) of Right to Information
act 2005.
But what would you say when the information commission does not comply
section 4(1)(b) of Right to Information act 2005. How can such an
information commission exert pressure on other public authorities of
its state to comply this most important section of RTI act 2005.This
is the case with Uttar Pradesh State Information Commission.
In Uttar Pradesh , the RTI activists toiled hard to ensure compliance
of section 4(1)(b) of Right to Information act 2005 by UPSIC itself .
Lucknow based social group YAISHWARYAJ took initiatives in August 2010
and the partial compliance of section 4(1)(b) was made by UPSIC in
December 2010. Since then , UPSIC has done nothing to finish the
incomplete work or even to update the information related to section
4(1)(b) that is there on its website.
" Our group has sent memorandums attaching the pdf file containing
obsolete information to Sri B. L. Joshi ,the Governor , Km. Mayawati ,
the Chief Minister & the minister of Nodal Department for
implementation of RTI in state ( ARD Deptt. ) and Sri R. S. Pankaj ,
The Chief Information Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh with the clear
demand that the UPSIC should show exemplary compliance of RTI act in
all of its deeds if it wants the other departments to follow suit "
said Ram Prakash , a senior member of YAISHWARYAJ.
Recently YAISHWARYAJ has raised many relevant issues related to the
weak functioning of UPSIC which include Competent persons of eminence
be appointed as info-commissions , regular uploading of orders of
UPSIC on its website , Compilation of one thousand blunders of UPSIC
and complete compliance of section 4(1)(b) by UPSIC and all other
Public Authorities of Uttar Pradesh.
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