New Delhi: More than 2.55 lakh Appeal and complaints are waiting June 30 this year in 26 information commissions.
Assessment of data obtained by the Voluntary Organization of Nagrik SatarK Tekanhan (SNS) through RTI indicates that 13 commissions will take more than a year to dispose of it.
Based on the average level of monthly disposal and funds in the commission it is estimated that Odisha Sic will take six years and eight months to get rid of the problems submitted on July 1 this year.
The estimated time needed for appeal / complaints in the Central Information Commission (CIC) is calculated in one year and 11 months.
On June 30, the backlog appeal / complaint was 36,788 in CIC.
When asked about how the central government proposed to reduce fat, officials said that the state-level execution lies in each government.
As far as it concerns the center requires these problems at review meetings held from time to time.
This finding is part of the report card on the performance of the Information Commission released to mark the 16-year anniversary of RTI Act on Tuesday.
Based on data distributed by ICS, more than 1.56 lakh appeals and registered complaints between August 1, 2020 and June 30, this year by 25 Information Commission.
During the same period, more than 1.35 cases of lakh were discarded by 27 commissions.
In CIC, 18,298 complaints and appeals registered during this period and 17,649 were discarded.
The assessment found that IC was subject to a penalty in a very small fraction of cases where the punishment was imposable.
RTI’s actions empower ICS to impose punishment on RS.
25,000 about the wrong Pio for violations of the RTI Act.
For the period 1 August 2020 to 30 June 2021, of the 21 commissions that provided relevant information, the sentence was put in place in a total of 1,988 cases.
Penalty of RS.
2.48 Crores apply by the commission.
“Previous assessments of random samples from orders Information commissions have found that an average of 59% of orders recorded one or more violations listed in Section 20 of the RTI Act.
If this estimate is 59% used, the penalty will potentially be forgiven at 40,860 cases From 69,254 cases dumped by 20 ICs.
Punishment is imposed in only 4.9% of cases where the penalty has the potential forgiveness.
Therefore ICS because it does not impose a penalty in more than 95% of cases where penalty cannot be forgiven, “highlighted .
The report card also attracted attention to the fact that three information commissions – Jharkhand, Tripura and Meghalaya – really died at this time.