Central Information Commission, New Delhi
File No.CIC/SM/A/2010/001146
Right to Information Act2005Under Section (19)
Date of hearing : 23 June 2011
Date of decision : 23 June 2011
Name of the Appellant : Shri Surendra Kumar Atram
Adiwasi Nagar, Gondwana Chowk,
Byraki Town, Nagpur, MS.
Name of the Public Authority : CPIO, Bank of India,
RO: Nagpuranchal 1,
S V Patel Marg, Nagpur,
MS - 440 001.
The Appellant was present in person.
On behalf of the Respondent, Shri Rajeev Pathak, CPIO was present.
Chief Information Commissioner : Shri Satyananda Mishra
2. Both the parties were present in the Nagpur studio of the NIC. We heard
their submissions.
3. The Appellant had sought several details regarding the Scheduled Tribe
(ST) employees of the bank in the Nagpur division. The CPIO had declined to
disclose this information on the ground that it was personal in nature. The
Appellate Authority too had endorsed this view of the CPIO.
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4. We do not tend to agree with such a decision. Those employees who
have secured appointment in a public authority/government department on the
basis of reservation and have furnished caste certificates in proof of their
reservation status cannot claim exemption for their caste certificates. Such
certificates have necessarily to be available in the public domain just as the
certificates for the minimum eligible educational qualification of government
employees for appointment to government jobs are to be disclosed. The
disclosure of such information would promote transparency and eliminate the
possibility of people securing public employment by producing wrong or fake
certificates in respect of their caste or educational qualification.
5. In the light of the above, we direct the CPIO to provide to the Appellant
within 10 working days of receiving this order the names of all such employees
of the Nagpur Zone, their designation, the date and place of first appointment
along with the photocopies of their caste certificates.
6. The case is disposed of accordingly.
7. Copies of this order be given free of cost to the parties.
(Satyananda Mishra)
Chief 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.
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(Vijay Bhalla)
Deputy Registrar
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