It was a complete shock for ND Prasad from the city when the state information commissioner rubbished his queries under the RTI Act by stating that those were motivated. The commissioner went on to rule that the information was not required to be provided to him. Responding to a bunch of appeals by Prasad, state information commissioner A Subba Rao in his April 3,2010 order said that the request for the information was motivated. The commissioner expressed impatience even over the number of queries. In all these appeals,the questions are more than 90 in number. The tone and tenor of the request is in the nature of roving enquiry and appellant by making such requests is trying to fish out something he himself is not aware of, the commissioner said. Subba Rao ruled that After carefully traversing the record, it is to be seen that answering questions does not fall within the ambit of RTI Act, 2005. Prasad had sought following information about the agriculture and cooperative department. Whether there was any provision to give promotions to the officers on humanitarian grounds; if the superintending engineer had required educational qualifications to hold the office; whether there were proposals to grant fire stations in market yards; whether the marketing department had issued all its advertisements through a particular ad agency, and the like.As the public information officers (PIOs) failed to respond, he filed appeals with the Commission.
Now, Prasad lodged a complaint with the chief commissioner against the commissioner for overstepping his brief. According to Prasad,the commissioner was not supposed to attribute motives to a petitioner.
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