RE: [HumJanenge] CIC SM Imposed full penalty on CPIO IDRBT

Mr Goyal, I will appreciate, if you would not cross post the contents in other lists. Causes confusion, as well as breaks the rules made by the list owners / moderators. 2.  In your own admission, you have stated that 95% of the the CIC is not prepared to impose penalty, so why not highlight the remaining 5%. For the past 64 years since independence, employees of the Public Authority have never been on the receiving side. They were never held responsible for any administrative lapse. A penalty of an office in every PA would go a long way in driving some sense of responsibility and accountability. Hence the need to highlight and give wide publicity for such orders. 3. If you go through my original post in this thread, you will note, that I had raised the issue of the defination of PA in the case of IDRBT. This is very important. 4. Since 2007, stopped filing application U/s 6. Focus was on 4(1)(b) and since past one year, the focus is on 4(1)(a) & 4(1)(c)/(d). Manoj --- On Wed, 8/17/11, Hari Goyal <haridgoyal@hotmail.com> wrote: Dear Mr. Manoj,    I found some RTI activists give undue importance to occasions when any CIC imposes penalty on any PIO who is/was not ready to provide information sought under the RTI Act. We should analyse seriously what is the percentage of such cases where penalty is imposed. In my five years' experience I find that in 95% cases CIC is not prepared to impose penalty even when months together information is denied to the applicant/appellant. CIC Shri  SG is particularly hesitant to listen to the applellant in this matter of penalty (u/s 20(1) and 20(2)) even when all the documentary evidence was submitted and when the High Courts have decided that imposition of penalty under the RTI Act is not discretionary but mandatory.   Please make the RTI Act implemented in letter and spirit by the RTI Activists and Central/State information Commissioners. In this battle, opposition to make RTI Act successful is too strong as some of the Chief Ministers are determined to kill this Act. This I am saying with my personal experience and for which I am continuously fighting.   With regards and best wishes,   Dr. H. D. Goyal former Faculty Member, LBS National  Academy of Administration, Mussoorie (U.P.) rtidwarka@yahoo.co.in