Sunday, May 31, 2009
15,438 RTI appeals pending in Maharashtra
The serious issue of pendency of Right to Information (RTI) appeals was mentioned in the charter of demands made by the 11 RTI activists who were sent to jail after they sang the national anthem at the state chief information commissioner Suresh Joshi's office last week. The issue unfortunately got sidelined in the hurly-burly of events.
TOI has got a copy of the performance records of individual information commissioners across the state which shows that of the seven divisions, Aurangabad information commissioner (V Borge) tops the pendency of appeals with 4,062 and Pune information commissioner (V Kuvlekar) comes a close second with 4,054 pending appeals till April 1, 2009.
The information commissioners for Mumbai and Pune have comparatively less number of appeals that are pending, with the Mumbai division having 1,168 appeals and Konkan division having 1,038 appeals to be heard till April 1, 2009.
The overall pendency of appeals has gone up to 15,438 and according to RTI activists, this is slowly killing the effectiveness of the three-and-a-half year-old RTI Act.
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TOI has got a copy of the performance records of individual information commissioners across the state which shows that of the seven divisions, Aurangabad information commissioner (V Borge) tops the pendency of appeals with 4,062 and Pune information commissioner (V Kuvlekar) comes a close second with 4,054 pending appeals till April 1, 2009.
The information commissioners for Mumbai and Pune have comparatively less number of appeals that are pending, with the Mumbai division having 1,168 appeals and Konkan division having 1,038 appeals to be heard till April 1, 2009.
The overall pendency of appeals has gone up to 15,438 and according to RTI activists, this is slowly killing the effectiveness of the three-and-a-half year-old RTI Act.
Complete Article
Labels: Maharashtra, Pendency, SIC
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