Polytechnic comes under scanner for RTI imbroglio
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TNN | Feb 22, 2012, 02.29AM IST
LUCKNOW: A government polytechnic not following the order of the State
Information Commission, which was about the recovery of the fine, from
the principal of the institute, paints a grim picture about
implementation of RTI in Uttar Pradesh.
The office of the principal of Gobind Ballabh Pant Polytechnic, Mohan
Road, Lucknow issued two letters under the same dispatch numbers,
regarding the recovery of fine which was slapped on a former principal
of the institute by the State Information Commission in April 2009.
While, one of the letters, issued by the principal's office to the
cashier, directed for the recovery of the fine, from the salary of AK
Bajpai, the then principal of the institute, by November 2011, another
letter, issued under the same dispatch, has directed for the recovery
of the fine by December 2011.
The two letters also bear the same date, November 26, 2011. The fine
was imposed on the polytechnic, under the social welfare department,
after it did not provide the information sought by RTI applicant
Urvashi Sharma in 2007. A fine of Rs 25,000 was slapped on the then
principal of the institute, for failing to provide information on
time.
The applicant did not get the desired information, even five years
after she made an application under the Right to Information (RTI)
Act. The commission slapped the fine and disposed of the matter in
April 2009. However, it was another RTI query, regarding the letters,
issued by the polytechnic, all through this period, which brought out
the anomaly to the fore. The polytechnic provided the copies of two
letters issued under the same dispatch number, and on the same date.
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