PIO of MNIT Fined Rs.25,000 For No-Response on RTI Application
No no, you are losing the plot. This is not about the recent RTI Applications we filed. The incident goes something like this. Some time in June 2009, Dr. S. D. Bharti, Asso. Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, MNIT, filed an RTI Application seeking information about the number of RTI applications and appeals received by the Public Information Officer (PIO) and also by the First Appellate Authority (FAA) of MNIT, and the annual report of the institute on RTI Act for the past four years (2005-2009).
After No-Response from PIO of MNIT, Dr. Bharti appealed to the Registrar of MNIT in July 2009 but all in vain. Then in November 2009 Dr. Bharti appealed in CIC. The Commission held the combined hearing on Dr. Bharti's other applications seeking details of career advancement scheme for faculty promotion and foreign travels made by the Institute's faculty members in last five years. Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi, in a hearing on 16th March 2010 in New Delhi, found the PIO guilty under Section 20(1) of the RTI Act. Director of MNIT was directed to deduct Rs 5,000 from PIO's salary every month for 5 months from April onwards. The CIC did not stop at that and also directed the institute to get FIRs lodged against those who last handled the files.
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