Classic example of misuse of RTI Act on not getting admission at College of Art

Kashmir Times. Dated: 7/19/2018 9:10:16 AM

Dear Editor,
It refers to Central Information Commissioner Yashovardhan Azad being strongly critical in misuse of RTI Act bombarding College of Art (Delhi Government) with too many RTI applications because daughter of the petitioner could not be qualified for getting admission at the college. Yashovardhan Azad is amongst those Central Information Commissioners who has saved RTI Act through passing stringent strictures against those misusing the transparency Act, saving several departments of Government of Delhi from regular bombardment of RTI applications by many misusers thus resulting in huge saving of man-power and resources of concerned public-authorities. It was Yashovardhan Azad who while hearing a case against GB Pant Hospital did not mince words in passing strictures against a petitioner who wanted research-study to be done by Professors at the Hospital through RTI application.
India’s most popular RTI Act having a high global-rating for its effectiveness should be saved by preventing it from misuse. RTI fees should be uniform for all states and competent authorities at rupees fifty that may include copying charges for first twenty copied pages of documents for saving to both public-authorities and portioners on demanding and remitting copying charges, but eliminating non-serious petitioners filing irrelevant petitions only because a negligible fee of just rupees ten. RTI fees and copying charges are already nil for petitioners from ‘Below-Poverty-Line’ (BPL) category. To prevent RTI applications being filed under fake names, ID proof should be compulsorily enclosed with RTI application in tune with para 23 of verdict dated 02.11.2012 in the matter “Fruit and Vegetable Union versus Unknown” (CWP 4787 of 2011). Repeated CIC-recommendations for issue of RTI stamps in denominations of rupees 2, 10 and 50 should be accepted to prevent heavy government-spending in handling postal-orders generally used to pay RTI fees. Post-free RTI applications addressed to central public-authorities should be extended to all about 160000 post-offices in the country rather than just about 4500 post offices presently.
—Subhash Chandra Agrawal,
1775 Kucha Lattushah
Dariba, Chandni Chowk Delhi.

 

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