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| DB directs CS to take call on establishment of online RTI request portal | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Mar 17: In a Public Interest Litigation filed regarding establishment of online RTI request portal so that the citizens may be able to file online applications for the purposes of collecting information from any department of the Government.
A Division Bench of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court comprising Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Sindhu Sharma dispose of the PIL with the direction to the Chief Secretary to take a call upon the aforesaid representation of the petitioners and to pass a speaking order on it, most expeditiously, preferably, within a period of three months from the date a copy of this order is produced before him.
DB further said that it will be open for the petitioners to make a fresh comprehensive representation in line with the representation already made so as to request the Chief Secretary to provide the facility of online RTI Portal.
In the PIL, petitioners submitted that it is alleged that the Central Government has already requested all the States/Union Territory Governments to enable the citizens to file online applications for collecting information from the various departments.
The petitioners have made various representations in this regard but no action has been taken and the online RTI Portal facility is not being made available to the citizens.
The last of the representation in this regard has been submitted by the petitioners on 12.12.2021 to the Chief Secretary, Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, a copy of which has been filed as Annexure-2 to the writ petition. JNF |
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