{"id":141831,"date":"2011-11-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/smt-chitta-kumari-vs-ut-of-andaman-and-nicobar-on-24-november-2011"},"modified":"2018-07-18T14:32:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T09:02:34","slug":"smt-chitta-kumari-vs-ut-of-andaman-and-nicobar-on-24-november-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/smt-chitta-kumari-vs-ut-of-andaman-and-nicobar-on-24-november-2011","title":{"rendered":"Smt.Chitta Kumari vs Ut Of Andaman And Nicobar on 24 November, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Central Information Commission<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Smt.Chitta Kumari vs Ut Of Andaman And Nicobar on 24 November, 2011<\/div>\n<pre>                        CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION\n                            Club Building (Near Post Office)\n                          Old JNU Campus, New Delhi - 110067\n                                 Tel: +91-11-26161796\n                                                          Decision No. CIC\/SG\/A\/2011\/002292\/15898\n                                                                  Appeal No. CIC\/SG\/A\/2011\/002292\nRelevant facts emerging from the Appeal:\n\nAppellant                            :     Smt. Chitta Kumari\n                                           C\/o Milan General Store,\n                                           Bird Line, Kalicut Post Office,\n                                           Prathrapur Village,\n                                           Port Blair,\n\nRespondent                    (1)    :     PIO<\/pre>\n<p>                                           Andaman &amp; Nicobar Administration<br \/>\n                                           O\/o the Chief Secretary<br \/>\n                                           Port Blair,<br \/>\n                                           Andaman &amp; Nicobar Island<\/p>\n<p>                              (2)    :     Public Information Officer<br \/>\n                                           Andaman &amp; Nicobar Administration<br \/>\n                                           Directorate of Tribal Welfare<br \/>\n                                           Secretariat, Port Blair,<br \/>\n                                           Andaman &amp; Nicobar Island<\/p>\n<p>                              (3)    :     Mr. Yogesh Pratap<br \/>\n                                           Public Information Officer &amp; ADM<br \/>\n                                           Andaman &amp; Nicobar Administration,<br \/>\n                                           O\/o The Dy. Commissioner,<br \/>\n                                           South Andaman District,<br \/>\n                                           Port Blair-744101.\n<\/p>\n<pre>                              (4)    :     Mr. Hussain Ali\n                                           PIO &amp; Assistant Director (Admin)\n                                           Andaman &amp; Nicobar Administration,\n                                           Public Works Department\n                                           South Andaman District,\n                                           Port Blair-744101.\n\n                              (5)    :     Mr. B. Krishnan\n                                           Assistant Secretary (AR) &amp; PIO\n                                           Andaman &amp; Nicobar Administration,\n                                           Administrative Reforms Department\n                                           South Andaman District,\n                                           Port Blair-744101.\n\nRTI application filed on             :     14\/03\/2011\nPIO replied on                       :     11\/04\/2011\nFirst Appeal filed on                :     25\/04\/2011\nFirst Appellate Authority order of   :     06\/05\/2011\nSecond Appeal received on            :     26\/07\/2011\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                                                       Page 1 of 4<\/span>\n<\/pre>\n<p> The information sought: The date wise action taken by A&amp;N Administration on my application date 1st<br \/>\nDecember, 2010 submitted before the Hon&#8217;ble it. Governor and the chief Secretary of A &amp; N<br \/>\nAdministration (Xerox copy enclosed for your ready reference).\n<\/p>\n<p>1. Indicate the writing reason for not reverting to one Executive Engineer ( C )and three Assistant<br \/>\n   Engineer ( C ) from the Executive Engineer (C) to Assistant Engineer ( C ) and from the Assistant<br \/>\n   Engineer ( C ) to junior Engineer ( C ) respectively as they are not belongs to schedules tribes of A &amp;<br \/>\n   N Islands and their caste or tribes\/ tribal Community is not specified in constitution ( A &amp; N Islands )<br \/>\n   Scheduled Tribes Order,1959 vide GSR No. 504 dt. 31.03.1959. Please refer my application referred<br \/>\n   in above Sl No. 1.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. Indicate the writing reason for not filling up the reserved posts of scheduled castes in promoti0on<br \/>\n   from feeder cadre to promotion quota of various posts like, Group &#8216;D&#8217; Group &#8216;C&#8217; Group &#8216;B&#8217; and<br \/>\n   Group &#8216;A&#8217; in the various deportment of A &amp; N administration.\n<\/p>\n<p>The PIO reply:\n<\/p>\n<p>   1. PIO, Assistant Commissioner was given reply to the Appellant as under:\n<\/p>\n<p>   1. The matter regarding employment for the post of Surveyor pertains to District Office, South<br \/>\n   Andaman.\n<\/p>\n<p>   2. The matter regarding reversion of one Executive Engineer and three Assistant Engineers pertains to<br \/>\n   APWD.\n<\/p>\n<p>   3. No Scheduled Caste has been declared in A &amp; N Islands and hence Scheduled Caste reservation is<br \/>\n   not followed in this UT.\n<\/p>\n<p>    2. PIO, Assistant Director was given reply to the Appellant as under:\n<\/p>\n<pre>Sl.                           Information\/documents sought for                                     Reply\n1. The date wise action taken by A&amp;N Administration on my application date 1                 Not pertained to\n     December, 2010 submitted                                                                this department\n<\/pre>\n<p>     Before the Hon&#8217;ble Lt. Governor and the Chief Secretary of A&amp;N Administration<br \/>\n     (Xerox copy enclosed) for your ready reference.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. 3. Indicate the writing reason for not reverting to one Executive Engineer ( C )          Queries do not<br \/>\n          and three Assistant Engineer ( C ) from the Executive Engineer (C) to              come      under<br \/>\n          Assistant Engineer ( C ) and from the Assistant Engineer ( C ) to junior           section 2(f) of<br \/>\n          Engineer ( C ) respectively as they are not belongs to schedules tribes of A &amp; N   the RTIAct.<br \/>\n          Islands and their caste or tribes\/ tribal Community is not specified in<br \/>\n          constitution ( A &amp; N Islands ) Scheduled Tribes Order,1959 vide GSR No. 504<br \/>\n          dt. 31.03.1959. Please refer my application referred in above Sl No. 1.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. Indicate the writing reason for not filling up the reserved posts of scheduled castes     As stated in the<br \/>\n      in promoti0on from feeder cadre to promotion quota of various posts like, Group        point 2 above<br \/>\n      &#8216;D&#8217; Group &#8216;C&#8217; Group &#8216;B&#8217; and Group &#8216;A&#8217; in the various deportment of A &amp; N<br \/>\n      administration.\n<\/p>\n<p>   3. PIO, Assistant Director was given reply to the Appellant as under:\n<\/p>\n<pre>S.No.                  Information\/documents sought for                                    Reply\n1.     The date wise action taken by A&amp;N Administration on my application         The information asked\n       date 1 December, 2010 submitted                                            for does not pertain to\n       Before the Hon'ble Lt. Governor and the Chief Secretary of A&amp;N             the department.\n       Administration (Xerox        copy enclosed) for your ready reference.\n2.      4. Indicate the writing reason for not reverting to one Executive         The information asked\n           Engineer ( C )and three Assistant Engineer ( C ) from the              for is pertains to\n           Executive Engineer (C) to Assistant Engineer ( C ) and from the        APWD and not related\n           Assistant Engineer ( C ) to junior Engineer ( C ) respectively as      to the Department.\n<\/pre>\n<p>           they are not belongs to schedules tribes of A &amp; N Islands and<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                                                                Page 2 of 4<\/span><br \/>\n               their caste or tribes\/ tribal Community is not specified in<br \/>\n              constitution ( A &amp; N Islands ) Scheduled Tribes Order,1959 vide<br \/>\n              GSR No. 504 dt. 31.03.1959. Please refer my application referred<br \/>\n              in above Sl No. 1.\n<\/p>\n<p>3.        Indicate the writing reason for not filling up the reserved posts of   No Government servant has<br \/>\n          scheduled castes in promoti0on from feeder cadre to promotion quota    been appointed in the<br \/>\n                                                                                 department under schedule<br \/>\n          of various posts like, Group &#8216;D&#8217; Group &#8216;C&#8217; Group &#8216;B&#8217; and Group &#8216;A&#8217;     caste quota. Hence question<br \/>\n          in the various deportment of A &amp; N administration.                     of promotion of schedule<br \/>\n                                                                                 caste dose not arise.\n<\/p>\n<p>Grounds for the First Appeal:\n<\/p>\n<p>The appellant was received an unsatisfactory reply from the PIO.\n<\/p>\n<p>Order of the First Appellate Authority (FAA):\n<\/p>\n<p>In order to dispose of the appeal, the records of the case like RTI application, reply furnished by the<br \/>\nP10\/Assistant Secretary (AR), the appeal application of the appellant and the relevant portion of the RTI<br \/>\nAct have been gone through and it is observed that the information sought by the appellant in her<br \/>\napplication dated 14.03.2011 is not held by the PIO\/Assistant Secretary (AR) which is in fact scattered<br \/>\nwith more than one other public authorities. Therefore the PIO\/Assistant Secretary (AR) explained that he<br \/>\nhad already transferred the RTI application dated 14.03.2011 to other public authorities concerned under<br \/>\nintimation to the appellant to her given address vide letter No. 3-38\/201 0-AR(PF)\/59 dated 01.04.2011.<br \/>\nHe further mentioned that in response to Admn&#8217;s letter dated 01.04.2011, the other public authorities i.e.<br \/>\nthe Assistant Commissioner, Tribal Welfare has furnished reply in respect of item 3 of annexure to RTI<br \/>\napplication date 14.032011 to the appellant to her given address. Similarly the Assistant Director (Admn)<br \/>\nof APWD also furnished reply to item 2 annexure to RTI application dated 14.03 .201 to the appellant.<br \/>\nHowever the reply to item 1, shall be furnished by Deputy Commissioner, South Andaman.\n<\/p>\n<p>        In view of the above I am of the considered opinion the appeal is left now without any substance<br \/>\nand the same is therefore dismissed. However, if the appellant still feels aggrieved on any point ,she may<br \/>\nseek a personnel hearing from The undersigned.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ground of the Second Appeal:\n<\/p>\n<p>The applicant is not satisfied with the PIO reply and unsatisfactory order was passed by the First<br \/>\nAppellate Authority.\n<\/p>\n<p>Relevant Facts emerging during Hearing:\n<\/p>\n<p>The following were present<br \/>\nAppellant : Smt. Chitta Kumari on video conference from NIC-Port Blair Studio;<br \/>\nRespondent : Mr. Yogesh Pratap, Public Information Officer &amp; ADM; Mr. Hussain Ali, PIO &amp; Assistant<br \/>\nDirector (Admin); Mr. B. Krishnan, Assistant Secretary (AR) &amp; PIO on video conference from NIC-Port<br \/>\nBlair Studio;\n<\/p>\n<p>        The information regarding query-1 has not been provided since the officials in the Administration<br \/>\nappears to be completely incompetent to understand where this information would be. The Commission<br \/>\ntherefore directs the PIO of the Chief Secretary&#8217;s Office to provide the information on the Action on the<br \/>\nAppellant Complaint of 01\/12\/2010 in the following format:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>       Date on which         Name and designation of Action taken Date on which forwarded to<br \/>\n       Complaint received The officer receiving it.                    Next officer\/office.<\/p>\n<p>          *there will be as many rows as the number of officers who handled the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>     Attested photocopies of all letters and notings will be provided.<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                                                                Page 3 of 4<\/span>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The PIO states that there is no reason on record for query-2.\n<\/p>\n<p>As regards query-3 PIO\/AC Directorate of Tribal Welfare is directed to provide the information after<br \/>\nobtaining it if necessary under Section 5(4) and provide it to the Appellant before 20 December 2011<\/p>\n<p>Decision:\n<\/p>\n<p>The Appeal is allowed.\n<\/p>\n<p>      The PIO office of the Chief Secretary is directed to provide the information on<br \/>\nquery-1 as directed above to the Appellant before 20 December 2011.\n<\/p>\n<p>      The PIO of Directorate of Tribal Welfare Department is directed to provide the<br \/>\ninformation on query-3 to the Appellant before 20 December 2011.<br \/>\nThis decision is announced in open chamber.\n<\/p>\n<p>Notice of this decision be given free of cost to the parties.<br \/>\nAny information in compliance with this Order will be provided free of cost as per Section 7(6) of RTI Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                        Shailesh Gandhi<br \/>\n                                                                                              Information Commissioner<br \/>\n                                                                                                     24 November 2011<br \/>\n(In any correspondence on this decision, mention the complete decision number.) (HA)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                                                                              Page 4 of 4<\/span>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Information Commission Smt.Chitta Kumari vs Ut Of Andaman And Nicobar on 24 November, 2011 CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION Club Building (Near Post Office) Old JNU Campus, New Delhi &#8211; 110067 Tel: +91-11-26161796 Decision No. CIC\/SG\/A\/2011\/002292\/15898 Appeal No. CIC\/SG\/A\/2011\/002292 Relevant facts emerging from the Appeal: Appellant : Smt. 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