Alka Pande
Posted: Feb 23, 2009 at 0342 hrs IST
Lucknow The Mayawati government has finalised the appointment of a retired bureaucrat, Ram Kumar, as the State Information Commissioner and sent his name to the Governor for the final stamp. Kumar was issued notice for violating Section 20 of the Right To Information (RTI) Act. The government finalised the name of 1976 batch UP cadre IAS officer on Friday to take over. The post was lying vacant since last November after the Governor, on the recommendation of the state government, had suspended former Commissioner M A Khan.
Kumar retired as the Principal Secretary, Social Welfare and Social Welfare Commissioner last year. In 2006, in an application filed under RTI, a complainant had wished to know the details of an employee’s appointment. The case (no. 761/3/07) carried on for a year and eventually on July 26, 2007, the State Information Commission issued a notice to the Social Welfare Department — headed by Kumar — for not taking the desired action and imposed a daily penalty of Rs 250 which could have gone upto Rs 25,000.
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RTI violator to head State Information Commission
Comment: Government defrauding its own citizens! Retired Corrupt IAS officers are invariably appointed as State Information Officers by politicians as reward for their nefarious activities.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
RTI violator to head State Information Commission
Labels:
Combating Corruption,
Duties of a Citizen,
Honesty,
IAS,
OSA,
Red Tape and Bureaucracy,
RTI
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