As per my observation after attending couple of sessions before State information Commission may i seek your kind permission to express some suggestion for your kind perusal & consideration.
Sir, H/ commission is an independent body having powers to make own system but voice of citizens & observations of experienced d may prove pivotal role in bringing reform. here my intention is never to criticize any body but to keep the mission get going with grand success.
1/ Day by day more & more appeals are being flooded in commission. I.e. in the beginning from 12 to 15 per day now daily board seems for more than 35 for a single member commission which has increased the work burden of commission significantly. Now it becomes inevitable to increase the strength of the commission u/s 15 of RTI.
2/On watching the daily board applicants & officers are rushing from all for corners of the state traveling 100 to 300 km. of journey. To mitigate the sufferings to applicant as well as officials & by that way public exchequer we may consider to establish regional benches of the commission like North, east, South, & west for speedy disposal & sustain the credibility 7 faith of people in commission in general & spirit & provision of the act to believe the people indeed citizens are supreme in country.
3/Untill the implementation suggested in 1& 2 Commission may consider to list out the board that first 5 matters may be local &adjoining & than priority to matters of long distance people than again to local & adjoining facilitate better reducing hardship to the applicant & authority coming form remote area.
4/at present only single commission member is there in CIC. it becomes quite tiresome, exhaustive exercise for the commission to go into minor aspect of the appeal single handedly consuming lot of time of rest of the daily board attendance indirectly that becomes valuable wastage of manpower & precious time too. Rather the system may be developed having Joint/ Deputy information commissioner to scrutinized the appeal in early stage for the issues like information sought by applicant in form A, given/refusal by PIO, first appeal by applicant, decision of appellate authority, details of form a is matching with the detail in form g or not? Ground of rejection either on the part of pio or appellate is in consonance with the provision of the act or not & the persistence of applicant is justified prima facie or not? On verifying the same many applications / appeals may be disposed off by directly issuing appropriate order by H/ commission including the matter referring for first appeal where ever not availed.
5/ Un many of the cases in transit period or during the pendancy of the appeal & coming to the board info might have been provided by the public authority or pio in those cases it remains sheer formality of putting the matter on board calling both the part etc if the same may be under the intimation to H/ commission these kind of matters as under 4 on scrutiny may be disposed off directly with just letter to applicant in that regard & still they have grievance may approach the commission in a given time.
6/ In some of the matters after seeking info applicant may not be interested either in getting the info or keep the matter continue on settlement of grievance these cases may also be as stated under 4 on scrutiny directly disposed off by the commissio0n without calling to public authority with letter dropping in that regard to applicant sending copy to public authority.
7/ This 4,5,& 6 will definitely save valuable time as well as government exchequer too avoiding undue hardship also. as ion an average if 15 to 20 matters are from beyond ahmedabad average cost for each authority may be calculated 5000 to 7000 for 2 to 3 officers apart from vehicle driver & applicant cost. The time saved may be utilized for alternative service redresses in public authority.
As per S/ 19(8)a & S/25(g) may I request H/ commission to exercise powers vested in it to keep up faith of people &credentials of H/ commission.
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