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Public Information Officers should supply accusation to applicants without immoderate negligence, Karnataka State Information Commissioner Rudranna Harthikote said present connected Saturday.
Addressing a grooming store connected the Right to Information Act successful Bidar, helium reminded officials that accusation sought nether the Act indispensable beryllium furnished wrong 30 days. “The Right to Information is simply a cardinal right. Articles 19(A) and 21(A) of the Constitution subordinate to this right. The 1975 Raj Narain vs Uttar Pradesh judgement powerfully upheld citizens’ close to know, and based connected this principle, the RTI Act was enacted successful 2005,” helium said.
The Commissioner said that of the 55,143 applications received successful the State truthful far, 36,206 had been disposed of, and the remaining cases would besides beryllium resolved successful a time-bound manner. Under the RTI Act, penalties amounting to ₹10.16 crore had been imposed successful 10,735 cases. However, lone ₹2.70 crore had been recovered successful 3,084 cases.
In Bidar district, 383 applications were pending — the highest being successful the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department (215), followed by the Urban Development Authority (58), Revenue Department (54), Social Welfare Department (21), and different departments (35). “Bidar has the lowest fig of pending applications successful the full Kalyana Karnataka region,” helium said. Penalties of ₹9.2 lakh had been imposed successful 106 cases successful the district, but lone ₹87,000 had been collected successful 7 cases, helium added.
Bengaluru Bench Information Commissioner Rajshekhar S. said the RTI Act was introduced to beforehand bully governance, transparency and to curb corruption. “Officials indispensable enactment wrong timelines and safeguard nationalist interest. The RTI Act is among the astir wide utilized laws successful the world. Citizens indispensable marque due usage of it,” helium said.
Kalaburagi Bench Information Commissioner B. Venkata Singh added that 6,768 cases were pending successful the Kalaburagi region, astir of them related to the Panchayat Raj Department. “Many PDOs neglect to supply accusation connected time, leaving applications pending. Disposal astatine the little level is the astir effectual method. Both officials and the nationalist indispensable recognize the Act’s provisions and tribunal judgments related to it,” helium said.
Additional Deputy Commissioner Shivanand Karale, Bidar Assistant Commissioner Mohammad Shakeel and different officials were present.
