Saturday 3 February 2018

IIMC audit reveals poor compliance of RTI Act norms by MIB

Recently the Indian Institute of Mass Communications (IIMC) has done an audit and reveled that there is poor compliance of RTI Act norms by the ministry of information and broadcasting’s (MIB).


The audit report said that the Suo-motu disclosure of more items under Section 4 Sub-section 4(2) of the RTI Act, 2005 requires every public authority to take steps to provide as much information suo-motu to the public at regular intervals so that the public have minimum resort to use the Act to obtain information.

According IIMC report titled ‘Audit of Proactive Disclosure of Information Ministry of Information & Broadcasting’, the ministry’s disclosure of 17 categories of information under Section 4(1) (b) of the RTI Act is incomplete and partial. The categories include information like particulars of organisation, powers of officers, and those related to the functioning of the organisation.

In its recommendations, IIMC said that a committee must be formed as per the DoPT directive dated 30 June 2016 which states that the Public Authorities must constitute Consultative Committees consisting of office bears of key stakeholders’ associations on rotational basis to have a systematic and regular interaction between officials of the Public Authorities to advice what information to be uploaded as suo-motu.

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