Central Information Commission
CIC/AD/C/2010/000568
Dated : August 2, 2010
Name of the Applicant : Smt. Meera Mishra
Name of the Public Authority : NIMR, New Delhi
Background
1. The RTI application was filed by the Applicant on 26.11.2009 with the PIO, NIMR, New Delhi seeking
the reasons for not transferring her husband to Delhi or Haridwar and for having transferred him to
Ranchi. The PIO replied on 20.1.10 providing point wise information. Not satisfied with this reply the
Applicant approached the Commission with a complaint on 6.2.2010 seeking the information once
again.
2. The Bench of Mrs. Annapurna Dixit, Information Commissioner, scheduled the hearing for August 2,
2010.
3. Dr. M.S. Malhotra, PIO and Shri Ram Dev, A/c Officer represented the Public Authority.
4. The Applicant was present during the hearing.
Decision
5. During the hearing, the Complainant stated that she was wrongly informed that the posts in the Field
Units in Delhi and Haridwar had been closed whereas, in Haridwar they are still open. She requested
that her husband be transferred to Haridwar. The Respondent submitted that in a letter dated
29.10.09 written by the Under Secretary in the Ministry, it was noted that four Field Units, Haldwani,
Delhi, Shajahanpur and Shankargarh have been closed. In the following sentence however, while
referring to those stations which were already closed, instead of Haldwani, it was written Haridwar in
that letter and hence for a while it was assumed that the filed unit at Haridwar was closed. However,
later on it came to be known that the filed unit in Haridwar is still open and that there was a
typographical error in the letter. The Commission on perusal of the submissions on record and after
hearing the Respondents holds that the relief being sought by the Complainant is outside the ambit of
the RTI Act as it deals with the transfer of the Complainant. However, in view of the fact that the
Complainant had suffered because of the wrong information provided to him about the closing of the
Haridwar Field Unit, the Commission recommends that the Administrative Officer, Appellate Authority
& the PIO give a personal hearing to the Complainant to decide on the issue of the Complainant’s
transfer to Haridwar.
6. The Complaint is accordingly disposed of.
(Annapurna Dixit)
Information Commissioner
Authenticated true copy
(G.Subramanian)
Deputy Registrar
Cc:
1. Smt. Meera Mishra
Mohalla – Wakar Jayee
Krishnaraj Vidhayak Wali Gali
Post – Keruganj
Distt. Shahajahanpur
Uttar Pradesh
2. The PIO
National Institute of Malaria Research
Pocket14, Sector – 8
Dwarka Phase – 1
New Delhi
3. Officer Incharge, NIC