A right to information activist has filed a complaint with the Central Information Commission (CIC) against the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for allegedly not having a Central Public Information Officer (CPIO).<\/p>\n
The activist alleged that by not appointing a CPIO, the civic agency has ignored the mandatory provisions of the Right to Information Act.<\/p>\n
\u2018Petitions addressed to CPIO sent through registered post to the MCD headquarters at Town Hall, Chandni Chowk, are returned with a stamp stating \u2018no such post at MCD Town Hall (headquarters)\u2019,\u2019 said Subhash Chandra Agarwal who filed the complaint with the CIC.<\/p>\n
\u2018This is a gross violation of the provisions of the transparency law,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n
According to Agarwal, the MCD used to entertain such petitions earlier but recently the authorities have started showing a disregard for RTI petitions.<\/p>\n
\u2018The Central Information Commission and the department of personnel and training (DoPT) should look into the matter, and take action against the competent authority in the MCD,\u2019 Agarwal said.<\/p>\n
Action should also be taken against the MCD executive responsible for receiving RTI applications through post so that users of the transparency law are not harassed, he said.<\/p>\n
Reacting to Agarwal\u2019s allegation, a public information officer in MCD said: \u2018Their are around 51 public information officers in the MCD and of these 20 are based at its headquarters.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018A RTI applicant who needs any information can address his application to \u2018public information officer\u2019. The application will definitely be transferred to the concerned department,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
\u2018Our public information office is working very smoothly. If there is any problem related to collecting information from the public information office, it will be sorted out as soon as possible,\u2019as \u00a0Delhi Mayor Prithvi Raj Sawhney told .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A right to information activist has filed a complaint with the Central Information Commission (CIC) against the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for allegedly not having a Central Public Information Officer (CPIO). The activist alleged that by not appointing a CPIO, the civic agency has ignored the mandatory provisions of the Right to Information Act. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news"],"yoast_head":"\n