Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office . (SHRI V. NARAYANASAMY)
(a): 19,276 appeals/complaints were pending before the Central Information
Commission (CIC) as on 30.06.2011.
(b): The Central Information Commission has informed that there is no delay
in disposal of the pending appeals/complaints.
(c): The Commission has introduced hearing of the cases by constitution of
Benches and through teleconferencing and video-conferencing so as to ensure
speedier disposal of appeals/complaints. In addition, the Commission launched
a special drive in November, 2010 to dispose of the cases which were more
than three months old.
(d): The Government has issued guidelines/instructions to public authorities
emphasizing that they should provide as much information suo-motu as possible
to the public through various means of communication so that the public has
minimum need to use the Act to obtain information. Programmes are conducted
to train the Public Information Officers to enable them to supply correct
and complete information and to the Departmental Appellate Authorities to
dispose of the appeals judiciously. As a result of these steps, though
the absolute number of appeals/complaints filed in the Commission has
increased, the rate of increase in their number is slower than the relative
increase in RTI applications.
(e) : The Commission had disposed of 19482 appeals/complaints during 2009-10
and 24071 during the year 2010-11. Number of cases disposed of by the
Commission during the period April, 2011 to June, 2011 is 5485.
