New Delhi: Around 2,000 Central government
organisations will soon be accepting applications under the Right to Information
(RTI) Act through online medium.
The move is based on the suggestion given by a
group of secretaries before Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT)
has started a massive exercise to train nodal officers of all such public
authorities who have not yet started accepting the RTI pleas online.
In a stern directive, it has asked all the
government departments to attend a workshop being organised by the DoPT in this
regard without fail. In case, the officers concerned fail to attend the
workshop, a username will be created suo-motu and all these public authorities
will be made live on the RTI portal.
As many as 690 public authorities have been
aligned so far on the especially designed website www.rtionline.gov.in to enable
online filing of the RTI applications.
The DoPT had during June and July this year
conducted a workshop for 330 public authorities. Of these, 51 nodal officers did
not attend the workshop.
Since all the public authorities (around 2,000)
will have to be aligned in a time bound manner ( a target/timeline fixed and
monitored at the highest level), DoPT is organising yet another training
workshop as a special drive for those defaulted public authorities and nodal
officers who did not attend the workshop
It requested that all nodal officers under 51
public authorities attend the workshop without fail on Tuesday, the DoPT said in
the order.
It may be noted by all concerned that no
further opportunity would be given to the nodal officers after this workshop,
the order said.
In case the concerned nodal officer is unable
to attend this training, the username will be created suo motu and the concerned
public authority will be made live on the RTI online portal with effect from
September 30, by DoPT, it said.
The RTI Act, 2005, enables a citizen to seek
tome-bound reply on governance related matters. People can also make payment of
RTI fee online.
On the occasion of completion of more than 10
years of implementation of the RTI Act, the Central Information Commission is
going to hold annual convention in October, the DoPT said.
PTI
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