Notice to SPIO, Yamunanagar, for delay in providing info under RTI

Tribune News Service

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Yamunanagar, September 4

State Information Commissioner (SIC) Arun Sangwan issued a show-cause notice to the State Public Information Officer (SPIO)-cum-District Town Planner, Yamunanagar, for failing to provide requisite information to an appellant.

Jai Chand Chauhan, an RTI activist, had sought information on related to the change of land use (CLU), workforce and facilities being provided to them in two factories in the Sasauli-Sudhail road area of Yamunanagar.

As per an order passed by the SIC on August 17, 2020, the appellant through an RTI application on December 3, 2019, had sought information from the office of the SPIO.

Finding no response, the appellant filed the first appeal on January 14, 2020, before the First Appellate Authority (FAA), which was decided on February 13, 2020.

Failing to receive the requisite information, the appellant filed the second appeal on April 27, 2020, before the commission.

After hearing the case, the SIC directed the SPIO to furnish complete information to the appellant free of cost.

“In case, any of the points is not related to his office he will transfer the RTI application to the SPIO concerned, who will furnish the information to the appellant, as per the provisions of the RTI Act-2005,” reads the order.

The order further reads, “A show-cause notice has been issued to the SPIO-cum-District Town Planner, Yamunanagar, asking him as to why a penalty of Rs 250 per day, subject to the maximum of Rs 25,000, should not be imposed upon him for causing an inordinate delay in this case.”

The SPIO was also directed to submit his reply to the commission’s notice by today and be present during the hearing on September 17.