To:
The Secretary
Central Information Commission
New Delhi
cc:
1. Hon'ble MoS, DoPT
2. Secretary, DoPT
From:
C J Karira
Secunderabad Date 07 May 2015
RE: COMPLAINT against the First Appellate Authority of the Central Information Commission
Dear Madam,
I am constrained to send this email to you to COMPLAIN to you regarding the Non Disposal of my First Appeal by the FAA of your Commission.
As you can very well see from the trailing emails (copies of all emails and letters have been marked to you !), there has been an inordinate delay in disposing off my first appeal. Since this matter pertains to Corruption in the CIC, there is no doubt in my mind that the disposal of this first appeal is being delayed on the prodding of the corrupt persons working in the Central Information Commission.
If you recall, I had also called you about a month ago, before Mr Dash demitted office, and you had assured me to look into the matter and get this matter disposed at the earliest.
However no such thing happened !
Following is the sequence of events:
Details | Date |
RTI Application filed with CPIO, CIC, re missing files | 14 Jul 2014 |
Reply of the CPIO, CIC | 22 Aug 2014 |
First Appeal filed with FAA of CIC | 08 Sep 2014 |
Date of First Appeal Hearing & FAA’s 1st order | 27 Oct 2014 |
FAA gives further directions to trace the “missing files” | 27 Oct 2014 |
Another First Appeal for non-compliance of FAAs orders | 09 Nov 2014 |
Incomplete information provided by CPIO | 28 Nov 2014 |
Reminder to FAA | 03 Dec 2014 |
Another First Appeal to FAA for incomplete information | 10 Dec 2014 |
FAA passes order and gives more time to CPIO / Registrar to trace missing files and conduct Inquiry | 19 Dec 2014 |
First reminder to FAA | 11 Jan 2015 |
Second reminder to FAA | 05 Feb 2015 |
Several calls to FAA between 23 Feb & 05 April 2015 | |
Third reminder to FAA | 18 April 2015 |
Fourth reminder to FAA | 01 May 2015 |
Fifth reminder to FAA | 07 May 2015 |
As you can clearly see from the above table, I have tried my best to follow all rules
and procedures as well as send timely reminders to the FAA to get his orders implemented.
However, I am now convinced that both Mr A K Dash, the former Adnl Secretary
cum FAA and the present FAA Mr Beck, are both part of the same
CORRUPT MAFIA , existing in the Commission.
Madam, you are part of the Central Information Commission, the apex body for deciding
second appeals / complaints under the RTI Act. If your own senior officers:
- do not follow the time lines specified in the RTI Act 2005
- are not able to enforce their orders on their own subordinates
- do not even reply to 5 reminders over a period of 5 months
then with what face and authority can the Commission direct officers of other public
authorities and expect the compliance of their orders ?
Since Mr Beck took over as the FAA of the Commission, I have called him more than 15
times and he has never ever come on the phone.
His email, as given on the website of the Commission, keeps bouncing.
Madam our Prime Minister keeps talking about "courteous behaviour" of Government
officers towards citizens, but surely, not responding to 15 phone calls cannot be termed as
"courteous behaviour".
I therefore URGE and REQUEST you to immediately remove such an officer from
the post of FAA and reassign the duties to some other officer who can at least
return calls from applicants/appellants who have been waiting for an order
since more than 6 months.
I also did call you once and left a message with your PA, but the call was
not returned.