SIC slaps Rs 25k fine each on 20 officials for delaying RTI replies

  • | Monday | 18th June, 2018

Bijnor: As many as 20 senior state officials were slapped with a fine of 25,000 each by state information commissioner (SIC) Hafiz Usman after they were found delaying replies to RTI queries by applicants in different state departments. Therefore, I have slapped a fine of Rs 25,000 on each of the officers, who were showing reluctance in this connection. The officials include senior staffers from Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar, Sambhal, and Moradabad.In a statement, state information commissioner Hafiz Usman said, “There is a provision under the Right to Information Act to provide information within 30 days to the applicants. But they did not take an interest in sorting out the pending matter. But these 20 officials of UP violated the Act, ignoring applications.“When applicants complained against the officials concerned, I served notices on them last month and asked for an explanation for their pathetic attitude while instructing them to provide information in time.

Bijnor: As many as 20 senior state officials were slapped with a fine of 25,000 each by state information commissioner (SIC) Hafiz Usman after they were found delaying replies to RTI queries by applicants in different state departments. The officials include senior staffers from Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar, Sambhal, and Moradabad.In a statement, state information commissioner Hafiz Usman said, “There is a provision under the Right to Information Act to provide information within 30 days to the applicants. But these 20 officials of UP violated the Act, ignoring applications.“When applicants complained against the officials concerned, I served notices on them last month and asked for an explanation for their pathetic attitude while instructing them to provide information in time. But they did not take an interest in sorting out the pending matter. Therefore, I have slapped a fine of Rs 25,000 on each of the officers, who were showing reluctance in this connection. An aggravate fine of Rs 5 lakhs was slapped on 20 officers on Monday.”The erring officials including public information officer of UP State Ganga River Conservation Agency, Lucknow, district magistrates of Saharanpur and Sambhal, chief medical officer of Saharanpur, BSA of Sambhal, district panchayat raj officer of Amroha, district programme officer of Sambhal, district supply officer of Saharanpur, deputy registrar of Vilaspur in Rampur, BSA of Amroha, chief medical officer of BD Baajoriya Hospital of Saharanpur, CMO of Rampur, DIOS of Sambhal, executive engineer at PVVNL, Khatauli of Muzaffarnagar and Najibabad of Bijnor district, Block development officer of Deengarpur in Moradabad, BDO Nahtaur and Afjalgarh of Bijnor district, BDO Gangoh in Saharanpur and village secretary of Jaleelpur area in Bijnor district, have been slapped with the fine.According to sources, the fine has come as a surprise to the officials concerned.

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