On 14 March 2012 09:44, Thangavel manickam <thangavelmanickam@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Friends,
Please read below news from TOI today. What he can do further? Is
there any rules to take action against the PIO K.Manimekalai???
Let us know, it will help people.
CHENNAI: It is common for government agencies to come up with reasons
for not supplying information sought under the Right to Information
Act (RTI). Now, the state civil supplies department has come up with a
googly. Responding to a RTI query, it told the applicant, "pay us
money so that we can hire people to find out the information you
seek."
The applicant, M Thirumani of Padikuppam Road in Anna Nagar, filed a
RTI query on June 9, 2011, seeking information on a petition he filed
earlier to delete his son's name from his ration card and issue him a
separate card. He also sought from the department's public information
officer (PIO) information about those who had applied for removal of
their family members from ration card from June 8 to November 29,
2011.
Replying to his queries, PIO K Manimekalai claimed there was acute
shortage of manpower in the civil supplies department and hence it was
not possible for officials to get the details sought during regular
working days. She demanded that the petitioner pay Rs 1,950 a day at
the treasury until he got the information.
"If we have to get those details, we have to assign a section
superintendent, a junior assistant and an office assistant on special
duty and make them work even when they are on leave. To pay their
special pay allowance, the petitioner was asked to pay Rs 1,950 a day.
In case it takes three days to get those details, the petitioner
should remit Rs 5,850 in the government treasury," sources in the
civil supplies department said.
The civil supplies department officer claimed in her reply that the
details and the documents sought by the petitioner would be issued on
leave days.
The petitioner should pay Rs 2 to get the details for each document.
After the PIO sent her reply, Thirumani's son Chandramani appealed to
the civil supplies department seeking an answer to his father's
petition.
News Courtesy :
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/RTI-activist-told-to-pay-for-info/articleshow/12257151.cms
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