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For Estates Deptt, Omar is still CM, Beigh MLA Baramulla 2/6/2016 12:01:21 AM Peerzada Ummer Early Times Report Srinagar, Feb 5: What could puncture the claims of the helmsmen in making the state a digital one is the obsolete content available on the official website of the Estates department here wherein Omar Abdullah is shown as the JK CM while Muzzaffar Hussain Beigh as the MLA Baramulla. The details haven't been updated since years by the estates department on its website http://www.jkestates.nic.in/. There are names which makes one wonder how could lakhs of rupees are being spent out of the public exchequer in the maintenance of these websites which have the obsolete data dominating all over. The date in the list of the VIP quarters available on website's front page mentions Omar Abdullah as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir while as Ghulam Hassan Mir, Sakeena Itoo, Peer Zada Mohd Syed, Rajinder Singh Chib, Aga Syed Ruhulla, Ab. Gani Malik and Qamar Ali Akhoon as 'hon’ble' ministers. In era of Information Technology, the much-hyped e-governance in Jammu and Kashmir is proving to be a big failure. While the issue of data collection for proactive disclosure of information under the Right to Information Act-2009 is still a distant dream, the estates department website is completely defunct or carry wrong and outdated information. Furthermore, there has been very little compliance with Section 4 of the legislation which makes it obligatory for a public authority [department falling under RTI Act] to "maintain all its records and indexed in a manner and form which facilitates the right to information." It also calls for ensuring that "all records that are appropriate to be computerized are, within a reasonable time and subject to availability of resources, computerized and connected through a network all over the state on different systems so that access to such records is facilitated." What is more ironic is that the State Chief Information Commissioner in the year 2011 had formally informed the State Chief Secretary that there is not so encouraging response from Public Authorities with regard to implementation of Section 4 of the Act. "This Commission has been flooded with complaints regarding failure of public authorities to fulfill this statutory obligation to maintain their records duly catalogued and indexed in a manner and form which facilitates the right to information under the Act and ensure that all records that are appropriate to be computerized are within a reasonable time and subject to availability of resources , computerized and connected through a network all over the state so that access to such records is facilitated within 120 days from the commencement of this act (Section 4 b)," the CIC's at that time had mentioned.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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