Re: [HumJanenge] Re: IC Deepak Sandhu to hear from Chandigarh?

Positive aspect of this is that now the applicants and PIO's will not have to come for hearing to Delhi.  This will save the govt's. and applicant's time and expenses on travel of both. Both the parties based at Chandigarh, Punjah, Himachal, nearby areas of haryana like Ambala, Sangrur etc. can take benefit of this.   On this, the feed-back from the applicants from these areas will be more useful.   In fact, to be just and fair for the all the applicants across the country, CIC should have benches at Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai but with only six IC's out of sanctioned strength of 10 it is not possible immedialely.  But in the long run, an infrastructure for this should be created to make this possible and practical.. --- On Thu, 17/2/11, umapathy subramanyam <umapathi.s.rti@gmail.com> wrote: From: umapathy subramanyam <umapathi.s.rti@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] Re: IC Deepak Sandhu to hear from Chandigarh? To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, 17 February, 2011, 8:40 AM Dear Friends, this practice  is not new. earlier IC Padma Balasubramanian used to hear some cases from Chennai and Bangalore since she had her relatives in these places. However, we should resist this practice of creating their own benches at their places of choice. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:54 PM, sroy1947 <sroy1947@gmail.com> wrote: It is a completely illegal practice in violation of 12(7) of RTI Act.. Has the CIC opened any office in Chandigarh / Have they taken permission of Central Government ? The truth is obviously that IC(DS) has close relatives in Chandigarh, so this is an excuse to visit there and combine with some family functions at our expense. IC(PB) may have first started this practice.. BTW: Good to know that somebody still tracks happenings on CIC website. Its stuff like this we should be discussing and not zeros like Aruna Roy. Sarbajit On Feb 16, 11:13 pm, Manoj Pai <manoj...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I just went through the cause list of the CIC and learnt that hearing of various PA Located in Chandigarh have a hearing before IC Deepak Sandhu on 24th and 25th Feb. this year. What I noted was that venue of the hearing was also Chandigarh. > > Has CIC started this trend now? Could somebody please give me an update. > > Manoj