I
am writing this column for those who are desirous of collecting
information under RTI and what should be the correct format to have
information. As all of us know that, citizen has a right to seek such
information from a public authority which is held by the public
authority or which is held under its control. It is not open to a
requester to ask, in the guise of seeking information, questions to the
public authorities about the nature and quality of their actions. The
RTI Act does not cast on the public authority any obligation to answer
queries, to elicit answers to his questions with prefixes, such as, why,
what, when and whether. As an applicant, we can only seek information
as defined in Section 2 (f) either by pinpointing the file, document,
paper or record, etc., or by mentioning the type of information as may
be available with the specified public authority. We
can, for example, ask for all records /Copy of decision taken/Copy of
note sheets to implement certain orders. We can ask for copy of orders
pertaining to implementation period as per law under the rule but not
“What would be the further maximum reasonable time required to implement
orders?” The definition of information cannot include within its fold
answers to the question "which" that would be same thing as asking the
reason for a justification for a particular thing. The public
information authorities cannot expect to communicate to the citizen the
reason why a certain thing was done or not done in the sense of a
justification because the citizen makes a requisition about information.
Justifications are matter within the domain of adjudicating authorities
and cannot properly be classified as information." So I request all my
friends that we should call for information under the ambit of RTI rules
so that there would not have been any denial to the sought information
by the Public Authority.
Courtesy : ipaspassociationpunjab.blogspot.com
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