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Patna,(BiharTimes): Bihar Information Commission has received 70,353 applications ever since the implementation of the RTI Act in Bihar more than five years back. Out of them 65,455 have already been disposed of. The rest 4,898 applications are pending for disposal. |
According to state Chief Information Commissioner A K Choudhary the Commission does not have figures concerning applicants harassed for seeking information.
Choudhury said he also did not have information on fines collected from Public Information Officers under RTI Act for violating it.
He said that the state’s home department looked into the cases pertaining to harassment of applicants. Thus the information could be obtained through the help line of the department.
The Right to Information came into force in October 2006.
He said a PIO was recently punished in Darbhanga for allegedly harassing an applicant after probe by home secretary and Darbhanga inspector general of police.
He said that an international conference on RTI would be held in Patna on March 2-3. Judges, experts, activists etc from India and outside would take part in Six Years of RTI: The Road Ahead. The meet would be inaugurated by the chief minister, Nitish Kumar.
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