Don't ask for information, Municipal Corporation is still busy in cleaning the Deepotsav..!
Agra. No matter how many instructions or fines are given by the Information Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh, government departments have remained indifferent to the information sought under RTI. In the latest case, an RTI activist sought information from the Municipal Corporation regarding the Chief Minister's mass marriage scheme under the Right to Information. The Municipal Corporation sent him a reply that all the clerks are busy in cleaning the Diwali.
RTI activist Naresh Paras had sought information on several points related to the Chief Minister's marriage scheme under RTI in the Municipal Corporation on October 11. He asked for information that who are the beneficiaries for the scheme, how can they apply for it. How many beneficiaries have taken benefit of the scheme in four years. On the third day after he sought information, he was sent a reply by the Public Information Officer of the online municipal corporation. He was confused after reading the answer.
The information sought by the Municipal Corporation was not provided. But it was written in the letter that the information sought under RTI is too much. The clerical staff is busy in the department on the occasion of Diwali due to cleanliness work and installation related work. The applicant can get the desired information by personally contacting the department. Apart from this, all the information about the Chief Minister's mass marriage scheme in the year 2022-23 is available on the departmental website.
Apart from this, it was said by the department that for providing the information of the last four years, photostat would have to be done from the market to get the photocopies of the departmental forms. It will cost about two thousand rupees for this. The applicant should deposit two thousand rupees in the account of the Municipal Corporation in the departmental interest, so that the photocopy can be done in the market. Apart from this, the applicant will also have to give an undertaking that this information will not be used for any wrong purpose.
Naresh Paras says that he is not satisfied with the reply of the department, so he has made the first appeal. He says he has 30 days to reply to the RTI. If the departmental staff were busy in cleaning, they would have collected the information after Diwali. Why was there so much promptness in replying? Apart from this, when the information was not collected, how was the estimate of the expenditure of Rs.
