India For Delayed RTI Response, A "Symbolic Punishment" For UP Official

 The Uttar Pradesh government has asked a public data official to take care of noontime suppers to 250 school understudies in Ghazipur as a "representative discipline" for delay in answering to a RTI.

RTI candidate Bhupendra Kumar Pandey had looked for data about improvement work in Noonra town in Ghazipur area under the Right to Information (RTI) Act in 2016.



In any case, town improvement official and PIO of Noonra town Chandrika Prasad didn't answer the RTI inside the specified time span of 30 days.


Hearing the application moved by Pandey, Information Commissioner Ajay Kumar Uprety on Monday coordinated Prasad to serve dinners to understudies of a grade school in the town on April 29.


Mr Uprety likewise requested that the authority record the demonstration and present the video to the commission while guaranteeing that the use on the dinners doesn't surpass ₹ 25,000.


For the most part, we force a money punishment of ₹ 25,000 on the PIOs who create setback for giving data under the RTI Act," Mr Uprety told PTI.


Nonetheless, Bhupendra Prasad didn't intentionally create the setback and has been given a "emblematic and out of the container discipline", Mr Uprety said, adding that the genuine guilty party is previous town advancement official and PIO (Panchayati Raj division) Gopal Singh who has been fined of ₹ 25,000 under segment 20(1) of the RTI Act.


Under the RTI Act, PIOs should give the data in no less than 30 days of getting the RTI application.


In the event that the PIOs don't keep this request, the commission can suggest disciplinary activity under the assistance rules relevant to them under segment 20(2) of the RTI Act.

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