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--- On Fri, 10/8/12, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] DoPT Notifies new RTI appeal rules
> To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com
> Date: Friday, 10 August, 2012, 6:17 PM
> This file is moving because of SC
> case no. Civil Appeal 2023/2012
> which is listed for final disposal in July 2012.
>
> On 8/9/12, C K Jam <rtiwanted@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/New-RTI-appeal-rules-notified/Article1-910489.aspx
> >
> >
> > New RTI appeal rules notified
> >
> >
> > Aloke Tikku, Hindustan Times
> > New Delhi, August 08, 2012
> >
> >
> > The government has notified a new set of rules for
> moving the Central
> > Information Commission (CIC) against government
> departments, laying down the
> > basic standards that the appeal will have to meet to be
> taken up. The new
> > rules were notified by the Department of Personnel and
> Training (DoPT) at
> > the request of the CIC that was grappling with
> incoherent and incomplete
> > appeals.
> > Chief Information Commissioner Satyananda Mishra said
> the commission had not
> > insisted on a format or content of an appeal in the
> initial phase since the
> > implementation of the law was still in its infancy.
> > "But now that the number of RTI appeals has gone up,
> it has become extremely
> > difficult for us to cope with incomplete, and sometimes
> illegible appeals,"
> > Mishra told Hindustan Times.
> > In the past, the CIC has accepted letters written to
> the commission as
> > formal appeals and got around to putting together the
> necessary paperwork at
> > its own initiative.
> > With nearly a million RTI applications filed annually,
> the proportion of
> > appeals has also increased considerably. As the CIC,
> Mishra has about 1,233
> > pending appeals to deal with.
> > As a result of the backlog, a denial of information
> appeal would have to
> > wait for about 8 to 12 months before the information
> commissioner can take
> > up the case.
> > The new rules – notified on 31 July but yet not put
> in public domain by DoPT
> > – not only lists the documents that would need to
> accompany an appeal but
> > also lays down a format for the applications.
> > Deviation from the format would not be a ground for
> rejecting an appeal to
> > ensure that the poor were not discriminated against.
> >
> > But for the rest, "I think it is only fair to expect
> people to cooperate
> > with us".
>
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