[HumJanenge] We The People have the right to know : Who is "Transparency Officer" at DoPT Goi New Delhi...

Dear Dr Manmohan Singh, We, The People have the right to know as to who is the "Transparency Officer" at DoPT, the Nodal Govt Agency implementing Transparency Law to improve transparency and accountability of public administration towards the citizens. Kindly direct DoPT to make it public without further waste of time. The concerned citizen complaint Shri Sarbajit Roy, who has been trying hard to contribute towards improving the governance, also be informed directly. Regards, --  (Babubhai Vaghela) C 202, Shrinandnagar V, Makarba Road Vejalpur, Ahmedabad - 380051 M -  94276 08632 http://twitter.com/BabubhaiVaghela About me in Annexure at - http://bit.ly/9xsHFj http://www.youtube.com/user/vaghelabd (Administrator - Google Group - Right to Information Act 2005) http://groups.google.com/group/Right-to-Information-Act-2005/about?hl=en --- On Mon, 2/28/11, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote: From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> Subject: [HumJanenge] PUBLIC GRIEVANCE PETITION: Who is "Transparency Officer" at DoPT To: secy_mop@nic.in, jsata@nic.in, dirrti-dopt@nic.in, secy-cic@nic.in, "humjanenge" <humjanenge@googlegroups.com> Date: Monday, February 28, 2011, 11:26 PM To: The Department of Personnel & Training, by the Secretary to the Department. BY EMAIL 01-March-2011 Kind Attn: Ms Alka Sirohi Dear Madam Sub: PUBLIC GRIEVANCE PETITION: Who is "Transparency Officer" at DoPT As I have oft complained in previous (and pending) Grievance Petitions, the DoPT has comprehensively failed to comply with the mandate of section 4 of the RTI Act 2005 which is administered by your Department. I have suffered great loss, harm and/or detriment thereby. Taking cognisance of the State's woeful track record in document management and proactive disclosure in my case, the Central Information Commission (by order of Shri A.N.Tiwari) had directed all Secretaries to the Govt of India to appoint senior level officers (of the level of #2 or #3 in the hierarchy of the department) as "Transparency Officers" within November 2010. This directive dt 15/Nov/2010 of the then Chief Information Commissioner was later ratified by all Central Information Commissioners and duly communicated by a DO dated 18.Nov.2010 to yourself.. It is noteworthy that virtually all Departments/Ministries have complied with the said direction and appointed Transparency Officers well in time, this includes bodies like the Cabinet Secretariat and the PMO etc. The DoPT, however, under your able stewardship is a resolute holdout and has quite properly decided to ignore the said directive as being bad in law. As usual I am in complete agreement with the stand of the DoPT that the CIC is off his rocker and has no powers to issue such directions off his own bat (unless some complainant or appellant first bowls a ball for him to hit you with). I also agree with DoPT that the CIC cannot condone the brazen disregard and contempt for section 4 of RTI Act (which incidentally DoPT delights in instructing other public authorities to flout via DoPT's circulars) and grant public authorities more time to comply than the RTI Act permits. I therefore pray that I be formally informed by DoPT immediately that there is no Transparency Officer at DoPT (along with brief reasons) so that I can lodge my grievance to Madame President's online grievance facility asking for this wasteful, non-statutory and unlawful scheme of CIC to be scrapped. If, however, the DoPT has appointed / designated a Transparency Officer, his/her particulars may kindly be provided to me. This information is also sought by me u/s 4 of the RTI Act. Yours faithfully Sarbajit Roy B-59 Defence Colony New Delhi 110024 Tel : 011-2433-4262