YAISHWARYAJ demands scrapping of the appointment of Ms. Khazihatul
Kubra as Information Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh
YAISHWARYAJ has raised its voice against Uttar
Pradesh Government's move to appoint one Ms. Khazihatul Kubra W/O
Sri Zamil Akhtar as Information Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh on the
post which was lying vacant after retirement of Sri Gyanendra Sharma .
. Sri Akhtar is Information Consultant to the Chief Minister of
Uttar Pradesh
YAISHWARYAJ has sent memorandums to the Governor and the Chief
Minister of Uttar Pradesh .
" The Uttar Pradesh Government's move is unconstitutional and the whole
process needs to be stalled at once.Time and again , YAISHWARYAJ has
raised its demands of fair appointments of information commissioners
as per the letter & spirit
of the RTI act 2005 . " reads the Memorandum.
The procedure , eligibility norms etc. for appointments of information
commissioners have been laid down in Chapter IV of RTI Act 2005 .
Subsection 3 of Section 15 states about the appointing authority etc."
The State Chief Information Commissioner and the State Information
Commissioners shall be appointed by the Governor on the recommendation
of a committee consisting of—
(i) the Chief Minister, who shall be the Chairperson of the committee;
(ii) the Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly; and
(iii) a Cabinet Ministrer to be nominated by the Chief Minister.
Explanation.—For the purposes of removal of doubts, it is hereby
declared that where the Leader of Opposition in the Legislative
Assembly has not been recognised as such, the Leader of the single
largest group in opposition of the Government in the Legislative
Assembly shall be deemed to be the Leader of Opposition "
Subsection 5 of section 15 further states the eligibility norms " The
State Chief Information Commissioner and the State Information
Commissioners shall be persons of eminence in public life with wide
knowledge and experience in law, science and technology, social
service, management, journalism, mass media or administration and
governance "
Expressing over the memorandum , Prabhuta , one of the members of the
group YAISHWARYAJ said that The spirit of the act is that all members
of the committee should necessarily take part in the process of
appointment and should note
down their views on each and every aspect. This is not being followed
in most of the appointments. Such appointments are ab-initio-void and
needs to be scrapped.
Further , the act emphasizes the word " Appointment " and not "
Nomination " . The procedure adopted so far is clearly the nomination
and not the appointment. Appointment means appointment after giving
fair chance to all eligible citizens in consonance to article 14 & 16
of the Constitution of INDIA and then selecting and appointing the
best as per the procedure and norms laid down in the advertisement by
the state government.
Wayback , we have sent memorandums on this issue to the authorities of
the state including the governor which are pending for action with
the Government of Uttar Pradesh and the Government is going to make
another arbitrary nomination of
information commissioner without any advertisement for appointment.
This is illegal and shows dubious intentions of state government with
respect to RTI implementation so YAISHWARYAJ has again requested the
governor to stall this unconstitutional process at once and forever
and strive for ways to ensure fair appointment on the said post.
Members of YAISHWARYAJ alongwith other RTI activists of Uttar Pradesh
also demanded time to meet and apprise the Governor the long pending issue of
fair appointments of information commissioners as per the letter and
spirit of RTI ACT 2005 and many other issues over which the Government
of Uttar Pradesh seems to be intentionally acting against the ACT.
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