Strict action against officials delaying RTI replies: SIC

State Information Commissioner M. Sreekumar has warned that strict disciplinary enactment volition beryllium taken against officials who neglect to respond to Right to Information (RTI) applications wrong the stipulated time. He was speaking aft a proceeding league held astatine the Thrissur Collectorate connected Thursday.

Dr. Sreekumar said though astir officials responded promptly and transparently to RTI applications, a tiny conception inactive showed negligence successful giving timely replies. Such lapses would not beryllium tolerated, helium cautioned. Officials had been directed to dainty RTI applications with utmost seriousness and guarantee implicit and wide responses wrong the mandated time.

During the proceeding chaired by Dr. Sreekumar astatine the Collectorate’s videoconference hall, 32 of the 33 appeals considered were settled. One entreaty was deferred to the adjacent sitting arsenic the officials acrophobic failed to appear.

The two-day proceeding reviewed appeals related to the Local Self-Government department, Police, Education, and Revenue departments.