Re: [HumJanenge] What he can do? Tamilnadu Issue

It has been established By various Orders of CIc and also Other SIC's that Apart from the fee Fixed , No PIO Can Claim or demand Fees which is Beyond his Purveiw and Not according to The Act & rules .
Further Most of the Info comm's have Ruled According to Section 2(f) what is the Defeinition of "INFORMATION" .
If One reads this definition You can Clearly read that it spells Out What information can be Accessed ( Under any other law for the time being in Force)
I am really sorry to state that after more than six years of the RTI act 2005 Us Citizens on the "demand" side are Now entering to a relam of Asking Questions Without Doing Preliminary "home work" and Try to solve our greviances Without givenig a small thought the Miracles RTI Can do .
whereas "Supply" side is Getting slowly effiecient In Thwarting Such RTI requests because of the inbuilt fault in our Requests . this I can say Being a resource person and continiously Training Both Citizens & Officials and being in our KIC almost Daily Assisting Persons .
I Have also Observed that Print Media or the Electronic Media Picks up such absurd Stories to carry because of the sensation it creates without Giving once again a thought whether the "ORIGIN" is correct or not
Here it to educate Both , The demand side by Trainings and the supply side either by "INBASKET EXCERSISE" or Filing appeals . Freinds in our state have also taken a few PIOs to Consumer Forums claiming compensation as diffeciency in service which they have succeded
This is WAR and every battle has to be won in each & every front
I Know that in your state Indian postal order is yet Become a Mode to pay the fees , where as we have moved to Money orders in our state
N vikramsimha , KRIA Koota & Trustee RTI Study Center, #12 Sumeru Sir M N Krishna Rao Road , Basvangudi < Bangalore 560004.

--- On Wed, 14/3/12, Thangavel manickam <thangavelmanickam@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Thangavel manickam <thangavelmanickam@gmail.com>
> Subject: [HumJanenge] What he can do? Tamilnadu Issue
> To: "HumJanenge Forum People's Right to Information, RTI Act 2005" <HumJanenge@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Wednesday, 14 March, 2012, 9:44 AM
> 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
>