Central Information Commission
File No.CIC/SM/A/2010/000523
Right to Information Act2005Under Section (19)
Dated: 3 November 2010
Name of the Appellant : Shri C.R. Verma,
S/o Late Shri N.R. Verma,
R/o H. No. 9963, Joshi Nagar,
Halbowal Kalan,
Ludhiana (Punjab)
Name of the Public Authority : CPIO, Punjab National Bank,
Inspection & Audit Department,
Circle Office, Firoze Gandhi Market,
Ludhiana (Punjab).
The Appellant was present in person.
On behalf of the Respondent, Shri R.K. Saxena, Chief Manager, was
present.
2. We heard this case through videoconferencing. Both the parties were
present in the Ludhiana studio of the NIC. We heard their submissions.
3. The Appellant had sought a large number of information/clarification on a
variety of queries concerning payment of pension by all the Branches under
one Nodal Branch. The CPIO had provided some information. The Appellate
Authority had, by and large, endorsed the information sent by the CPIO and, in
addition, provided some of this further information. The Appellant is not satisfied
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and claims that the information provided to him is inadequate. On the other
hand, the Respondent argued that the desired information was not being
maintained centrally and that collecting the information from nearly 67 branches
and for more than 6000 pension accounts by scrutinising each individual
account would be too voluminous a task and would disproportionately divert the
resources of the bank. We tend to agree with the contention of the Respondent.
Indeed, the scope of the information is too vast and wide. The Appellant himself
realised this and offered to modify his request only to the Haivowal Kalan
Branch instead.
4. Keeping this modified request of the Appellant in mind, we now direct the
CPIO to provide to the Appellant within 10 working days from the receipt of this
order the information as desired in item 6 of his RTI application, preferably, in a
tabular statement for the period mentioned in item 3 of the same application.
5. The appeal is disposed off accordingly.
6. Copies of this order be given free of cost to the parties.
(Satyananda Mishra)
Information Commissioner
Authenticated true copy. Additional copies of orders shall be supplied against
application and payment of the charges prescribed under the Act to the CPIO of this
Commission.
(Vijay Bhalla)
Assistant Registrar
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