SCI commissioner directs officials to provide RTI info on time | Hubballi News

Belagavi: State chief information commissioner AM Prasad said that twenty years have passed since the implementation of the Right to Information Act. In 2019, the RTI bench was started in Belagavi. More than 12,000 applications are pending in the Belagavi division and approximately 3,000 applications in Belagavi district. Action should be taken to dispose of these. Instructions were given to the respective deputy commissioners under the jurisdiction of the Belagavi bench in this regard. Speaking while presiding over the Right To Information Act training programme for public information officers and First Appellate Authority officers held at Suvarna Vidhana Soudha on Thursday, Prasad said that a public information officer must provide information within the time limit to applicants who file applications seeking information under the Right to Information Act. If the information officer does not provide information without any reasonable cause or if he provides incorrect information with malicious intent, he will have to pay a fine and disciplinary action may be taken, he said. Deputy commissioner Mohammed Roshan said that a meeting will be organised every three months to dispose of pending RTI applications.