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ROLE OF RIGHT TO

INFORMATION IN LAND

RESOURCES

BY YOGESH PAL

B.A.LLB (HONS), 8TH Semester

UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF LAW AND MANAGEMENT

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TABLE OF CONTENTS-

CONCEPT OF RTI .............................................................................................................................. 4

Concept of Land Resources ................................................................................................................. 6

Land Resources- ...................................................................................................................... 6

Land as a resource - ................................................................................................................ 7

Relation between R.T.I and Land Resources- ................................................................................... 8

Commission Under Right to Information Act, 2005- ............................................................................ 9

Whether Land Record is Personal or public document- ................................................................ 10

R.T.I and Land Dispute- .................................................................................................................... 11

Chiefly, the land disputes cases are of the following types: ............................................................................................... 11

#1. Fake land registration .................................................................................................... 11

Using RTI to know about the owner(s) of a particular property as of a prior date: ................................................ 13

Success Story/ Feed Back of R.T.I Act.............................................................................................. 13

Partial list of Adarsh flat owners- ..................................................................................................... 15

Annual Report of State Commissions- ............................................................................................. 16

Legal Provision of Annual Report for Commissions .......................................................... 17

Annual Report of Himachal Pradesh (1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014) .......................... 17

Annual Report of Jammu and Kashmir (2013-2014) ........................................................ 18

10th Annual Report of Meghalaya 2015 .............................................................................. 20

First Annual Report of Arunachal Pradesh 2006- 2007 .................................................... 22

Annual Report of Assam 2015-216 ...................................................................................... 22

Annual Report of Mizoram 2015-2016 ................................................................................ 24

Annual Report of Haryana 1 Jan to 31 Dec, 2012 .............................................................. 28

9th Annual Report of Tripura (2013-2014) .......................................................................... 31

Annual Report of Punjab 2011 ............................................................................................. 35

Annual Report of Gujarat 2015-2016 .................................................................................. 36

Annual Report of Tamil Nadu 2012..................................................................................... 38

Annual Report of Sikkim 2015 ............................................................................................. 42

Annual Report of Rajasthan 2014-2015 .............................................................................. 44

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Annual Report of Karnataka 2014-2015 ............................................................................. 45

Annual Report of West Bengal 2015 .................................................................................... 48

Annual Report of Odisha 2012-2013.................................................................................... 49

Annual Report Uttrakhand 2013-2014 ................................................................................ 51

Annual Report of Andhra Pradesh 2013 ............................................................................. 52

Annual Report of Central Information Commission 2015-2016-................................................... 55

Digitalization of Land Record Programme and R.T.I- ................................................................... 56

KARNATAKA – Digitalization Of Land Record Programme....................................................... 57

HARYANA - Digitalization Of Land Record Programme ............................................................. 58

CONCLUSION- .................................................................................................................................. 62

Suggestions- ......................................................................................................................................... 63

Reference- ............................................................................................................................................ 65

Cases- ................................................................................................................................................... 66

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ROLE OF RTI IN LAND RESOURCES

CONCEPT OF RTI-

Real Swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the

acquisition of capacity to resist authority when abused.

- Mahatma Gandhi

It’s said that power corrupts person but it is more true that power attracts

corruption. No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. We need to learn

and understand the concept as we know that our country has 3 main authorities on

which all the system is depends i.e. Legislation, Execution and last is Judiciary and

all the step is taken by these authorities so to create a transparency in the system it

is necessary to provide a right or a tool in the hand of public which creates a trust

in the mind of public about the functioning of government, so that why the concept

of Right to Information was raised.

It comes into force on the 12th October, 2005 (120th day of its enactment on 15th

June, 2005). Some provisions have come into force with immediate effect viz.

obligations of public authorities, designation of Public Information Officers and

Assistant Public Information Officers and constitution of Central Information

Commission, constitution of State Information Commission, non-applicability of

the Act to Intelligence and Security Organizations and power to make rules to

carry out the provisions of the Act

As we know our country is independent democratic country so it’s a right of all

citizen to take all the information and knowledge about the working of

government.

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Under our constitution several rights and liability of person is described and for

state vice versa. Under article 19 (1) (a) enshrined a right of freedom of speech and

expression. The purpose of this right is to providing a good mean for obtaining an

information because without knowing anything person cannot express his view so

at some extent we can say R.T.I is a part of Fundamental Right even there are

several case law on them.

In a leading case State of Uttar Pradesh Vs. Raj Narain1 where an Indian citizen

had asked for the disclosure of the Government official’s information kept as ‘Blue

book’ in respect to the rules and instructions of the protection of Prime Minister

while travelling. This judgment was the first land mark judgment of the honorable

Supreme Court of India where the right to know for the Citizen was established

and it was made clear that the concerned right is co- related with and arising from

the fundamental right of freedom of speech and expression guaranteed under the

Constitution of India. As such it is clear that the said right to information is derived

from the concept of Freedom of Speech, however, the said right is also not

absolute as in this connection also reasonable restrictions are applicable.

1 A.I.R. 1975 S.C. 865

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CONCEPT OF LAND RESOURCES

LAND RESOURCES2-

Mainly Land resources mean the resources available from the land, thus the

agricultural land which contain natural fertilizer for growth of the products sown;

the underground water, the various minerals like coal, bauxite, gold and other raw

materials.

The more a country is able to locate and use the raw materials, the more the

industrialization of that country, area etc.

Land resource refers to the land available for exploitation, like nonagricultural

lands for buildings, developing townships etc.

Land resources (natural resources) (economically referred to as land or raw

materials) occur naturally within environments that exist relatively undisturbed by

mankind, in a natural form.

A natural resource is often characterized by amounts of biodiversity existent in

various ecosystems.

Natural resources are derived from the environment. Many of them are

essential for our survival while others are used for satisfying our wants.

Natural resources may be further classified in different ways.

2 https://landresourcesanalysis.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/what-is-land-resource/

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Underground geological resources (oil, gas, ores, precious metals), and

Deeper geohydrology resources that normally bear no relation to the surface

topography such as confined aquifers, are excluded from the group of

components of the natural land unit, although it is recognized that some

countries consider them as part of individual land ownership (and hence with

rights to exploit or sell them).

LAND AS A RESOURCE -

Natural resources, in the context of “land” as defined above, are taken to be those

components of land units that are of direct economic use for human population

groups living in the area, or expected to move into the area: near-surface climatic

conditions; soil and terrain conditions; freshwater conditions; and vegetational and

animal conditions in so far as they provide produce. To a large degree, these

resources can be quantified in economic terms. This can be done irrespective of

their location (intrinsic value) or in relation to their proximity to human settlements

(situational value).

Environmental resources are taken to be those components of the land that have

an intrinsic value of their own, or are of value for the longer-term sustainability of

the use of the land by human populations, either in loco or regional and global.

They include biodiversity of plant and animal populations; scenic, educational or

research value of landscapes; protective value of vegetation in relation to soil and

water resources either in loco or downstream; the functions of the vegetation as a

regulator of the local and regional climate and of the composition of the

atmosphere; water and soil conditions as regulators of nutrient cycles (C, N. P. K,

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S), as influencing human health and as a long-term buffer against extreme weather

events; occurrence of vectors of human or animal diseases (mosquitoes, tsetse flies,

black flies, etc.).

Environmental resources are to a large degree “non-tangible” in strictly economic

terms

Land is a major resource for agricultural development worldwide.

The components of the natural land unit can be termed land resources,

including physical, bionic, environmental, infrastructural, social and economic

components, in as much as they are fixed to the land unit.

Land, a critically important national resource, supports all living organisms

including plants as well as every primary production system such as roads,

industries, communication and storage for surface and ground water, among

others.

RELATION BETWEEN R.T.I AND LAND RESOURCES-

As earlier we already discussed about the concept of R.T.I and Land Resources. So

according to that Right to Information is a right of every citizen of India and also

work as a tool for public. On the other hand, Land Resources is a natural resource

which is used by the humans for their needs and as defined by the definition that

land resource is for mankind. As we know that today’s every country wants more

development as well as industrialization. Modern era itself defines the

development so to accomplice the purpose several authorities takes disadvantage

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of the land resources by using of their power with bad intention or for their

personal benefit. To solve out these problem R.T.I may use as a tool by the public.

It creates a transparency between the public and administration.

COMMISSION UNDER RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, 2005-

Under the Right to Information Act, 2005 there are two type of commission. These

are-

1. Central Information Commission

2. State Information Commission (For Each State)

These commissions are established by appropriate government. Central

Information Commission under section 12 of the act and in case of State

Information Commission the establishment of this commission is provided under

section 15 of the act.

Purpose of these commissions

These commissions are established by the appropriate government for the purpose

to deal with request of information, complain of application and also for appeal.

Soto deal with any subject matter of information like with respect of land resources

these commissions will be deals with such matter. In case of state’s land resource

information then state information commission will be authority to give

information and in case of subject matter of center then central information

commission will be consider as authority.

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WHETHER LAND RECORD IS PERSONAL OR PUBLIC

DOCUMENT-

Mrsurender Pal Singh vs Gnctddelhi,3in this case the contention was that Land

records, describing boundaries, ownership and extent of possession, are public

records which cannot be treated as personal information, the Central Information

Commission has held, directing the Delhi government to consider writing them on

the walls of villages.

Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu said records with names of different

owners giving details of boundaries, and the extent of land owned or possessed by

the public authority, is neither private information nor third party information.

Delhi government officials had claimed that property details of other persons from

land records of the village cannot be given under the RTI Act as the law allows

withholding personal information from disclosure.

Rejecting the argument, Acharyulusaid, “The land is open and transaction of

change of ownership of a particular piece of land is registered with Registrar for

being recorded as admissible evidence of that ownership for public to know."

"Registration is notification to society and evidence of the transaction and not an

affair to be kept secret. If the argument of PIO (public information officer) is

accepted the registration of transactions of sale and mortgage would never be

available to people in general. That will defeat the purpose of recording the

transaction at all," the Information Commissioner said.

3CIC/SA/A/2014/000462

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R.T.I AND LAND DISPUTE4-

A land dispute can occur due to many different scenarios and for most parts RTI

may be applicable.

Such cases can be fraud in the registration of the property which initially

belonged to someone else or dispute over the area of the property between two

parties.

CHIEFLY, THE LAND DISPUTES CASES ARE OF THE FOLLOWING

TYPES:

#1. FAKE LAND REGISTRATION

A situation might arise in which your registered land might belong to some other

person initially, or somebody might claim that the registered land belonged to

him. Chances are there could be person(s) trying to sell you a land without proper

authority or permission/authority from the actual owners. This could land you in

trouble.

Whatever the scenario, you can use RTI to know the facts about the land’s

registration and also know the rightful owners.

The authority which maintains land and property related records is a public

authority and comes under the ambit of RTI.

4 http://blog.onlinerti.com/2017/02/02/is-rti-useful-in-case-of-land-and-property-disputes/

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By Section 2(f) of the RTI act, it can be used to obtain various ownership

related documents of the property. The information can then be used to

substantiate your case. You can also seek redressal of your grievance at an

appropriate forum.

#2. Land dispute

In the case of land dispute RTI can help out. Chances are the land you are about

to buy is under litigation and you are not aware of it, or someone else has claimed

the land and thus resulted in a dispute. As the authorities maintaining land records

is a public authority, such information can be obtained via RTI application. The

information relating to the land records in terms of measurements, area,ownership

can be obtained. You could also get details about the instances where surveys

and measurements were conducted by the authorities.

The status of your requests for obtaining measurements as well as the reasons for

the delay in inspection could also be obtained. By Section 2(f) of the RTI Act,

copies of the relevant documents and records could also be obtained.

#3. Encumbrance certificate

The encumbrance certificate is a mandatory document used in property

transactions as an evidence of free title/ownership. And encumbrance certificate

(EC) ensures that there is a complete ownership of the property without any

monetary or legal liability.

This copy encumbrance certificate of the property can be obtainedunder RTI act.

As mentioned above, again since the authority dealing with land records is a

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public authority, as per Section 2 (f) of the RTI Act, certified copies of relevant

documents and records could also be obtained.

USING RTI TO KNOW ABOUT THE OWNER(S) OF A PARTICULAR PROPERTY AS

OF A PRIOR DATE:

As seen above, the copies of the documents relating to the property can be easily

obtained by filing an RTI. Various details like the previous owners or documents

relating to ownership, dimensions of the land or any other relevant details could

also be obtained.

SUCCESS STORY/ FEED BACK OF R.T.I ACT

Over the past six years, the Right-to-Information Act has emerged as a powerful

tool for India’s civil society to promote transparency and hold those in power

accountable. The law, which allows Indian citizens to seek information from most

government bodies, was first implemented in October 2005.

To mark the sixth anniversary of the RTI Act, India Real Time presents a list of

some the most successful RTI cases.

Adarash Cop-Op. Hsg. Soc.Ltd., vs Union Of India And Ors 5

This case is leading and one of the important case of R.T.I.

5 WRIT PETITION NO.369 OF 2011

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Fact of the case are-:

Adarsh Housing Society, a 31-storey upscale residential complex in Colaba,

Mumbai, should have originally housed war heroes and war widows who lost their

spouses during the 1999 Kargil War. But the occupants of the apartment complex

built on defense land ended up being bureaucrats and relatives of politicians who

were in no way connected with the Kargil war.

Though the issue has been brewing since 2003, media scrutiny over the high-

profile list of owners began in 2010, prompting the Army and CBI to launch

separate probes. The CAG too submitted a report on the scandal. What, at first,

appeared as a misuse of granted land, turned murkier as the revelations of the

probe grew. It was found that the Navy had objected to the Maharashtra

government according permission for Occupation Certificates citing “serious

security concerns” as the 100-metre tall building stood next to a planned helipad

and military installations. It was also found that the society didn’t obtain a

NOC from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, and above all the society had

permission to build only six floors.

Details obtained through RTI said Mr. Chavan approved the sale of 40 per cent of

the houses to civilians. ( Flats given to civilians at Chavan's behest: lawyer ) RTI

documents revealed that the children of several bureaucrats involved in granting

permission to the society owned a flat.

Order of Bombay High Court

When the case came before the Bombay High Court, a shocked Bench called it “a

clear-cut manipulation by the Collectorate, the Revenue Ministry and the Urban

Development Ministry,” pointing out that “everyone who cleared the file was

gifted with a flat.” Mr. Chavan’s successor Prithviraj Chavan ordered a judicial

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inquiry into the scandal . As the inquiry was underway, several documents and

files pertaining to the scam went missing. This prompted the Bombay High Court’s

intervention, which ordered protection to the files and sought periodical status

reports from the CBI.

Several occupants, including Admiral Madhavendra Singh, former Chief of the

Naval Staff, General Nirmal Chander Vij, former Chief of Army; General Deepak

Kapoor, former Chief of Army, offered to return their flats.

The Bombay High Court has ordered demolition of the building for violating

green norms. It has also granted 12-weeks interim stay heeding to the plea of

Adarsh occupants.

PARTIAL LIST OF ADARSH FLAT OWNERS-

Admiral Madhavendra Singh, former Chief of the Naval Staff

General Nirmal Chander Vij, former Chief of Army

General Deepak Kapoor, former Chief of Army

All the three have surrendered their flats after the scam surfaced

The bureaucrats whose children own flats in the Adarsh:

Jairaj Phatak, chairperson of the Rural Electrification Corporation

Ramanand Tiwari, former Secretary, Urban Development

D. K. Shankaran, former Chief Secretary

C.S. Sangitrao, IAS

S.C. Deshmukh, former Collector, Pune

P.V. Deshmukh, formerly with the Urban Development Department

Uttam Khobragade, Secretary, Tribal Development

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Subhash Lalla, Former member of Maharashtra State Human Rights

Commission

Politicians

Former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan's family owned three flats.

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu

NCP leader Jitendra Avhad

Former Congress MLC Kanhaiyalal Gidwani and his two sons

Congress leader Babasaheb Kupekar

BJP leader Ajay Sancheti

R.C. Thakur

Jayant Shah

Bureaucrats

Seema Vyas, IAS officer and wife of pradeep Vyas, Former Collector,

Mumbai,

Idzes Kundan, Deputy Secretary and former Collector, Mumbai city, also

own flats.

ANNUAL REPORT OF STATE COMMISSIONS-

Under the Right to Information Act 2005, for the purpose of control over

authority and for appeal each state has its own information commission that is

State Information Commission (SIC).

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LEGAL PROVISION OF ANNUAL REPORT FOR COMMISSIONS

According to Section 25 (2) of the R.T.I. Act 2005, each Ministry or Department

shall in relation to the public authorities within their Jurisdiction collect and

provide such information to the Central Information or State Information

Commission as the case may be, as is required to prepare the report under the

section and comply with the requirements concerning the furnishing of that

information and keeping of records for the purpose of this Section.

The Commission observes that inspite of the above legal provisions there were

many Government Departments who are still hesitant to comply with the

direction of the Commission.

Each State Information Commission has its own site where all the data,

information, notification are mentioned. So here I am giving some data report

regarding land disputes of several states. These are the followings; -

ANNUAL REPORT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH (1 APRIL 2013 TO 31 MARCH 2014) 6

Name of

Authority

No. of

application

Reject 1st

Appeal

Appeal

to SIC

Compensation Fees of

application

Land

Record

291 -------- --------- --------- ----------------- 1405

Total no. of request made by person is 291 and total Fees received by the

authority is RS. 1405 but no record is available for pending of case, rejection of

case and appeal of case.

6 http://hp.gov.in/sic/UI/citizen/download_forms.aspx?cat=6

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Total of 110 public authorities which submitted the annual reports during the

year, 18 public authorities of them received more than 1000 applications, 10 of

them received 501 to 1000 applications, 25 of them received 101 to 500

applications and the remaining 57 public authorities received less than 100

applications. Eighteen public authorities namely the HP Judiciary, DC Offices

Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Kangra, Mandi, Shimla, Solan, Una, Elementary Education

Department, Police Department, Public Works Department, Rural Development

Department &Panchayati Raj Department, Urban Development Department,

HPSEBL, Forest Department, Industries Department, MC Shimla, HP University,

Shimla received more than 1000 applications during the year. It has been

observed that a total of 61,889 applications out of 63,722 applications i.e.

approximately 97 percent of the total applications were received by 53 public

authorities. The remaining 57 public authorities received approximately 3 percent

of the total applications. Further, a fee of `14,98,202/- has been collected by

various public authorities during the same period.

ANNUAL REPORT OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR (2013-2014)7

Scenario of j&k

Several cases of illegal mutations of land were got cancelled after invoking right

to information. A case of During militancy in the J&K State, a section of society

had to migrate from valley and all religious places fell vacant without any proper

security. Certain religious premises were unauthorized occupied by land

grabbers. One of the prominent temples at Srinagar administered by Dharmarth

Trust was got vacated only because of intervention of J&K State Information

Commission. Individual migrant properties illegally occupied by land grabbers in

7 http://jksic.nic.in/Annual%20Report%202013-14%20.pdf

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their absence were got vacated and handed over to the local Panchayat heads for

restoration to the legal owners.

Annexure - A

Name of Department

public authorities

No.

of

reque

st to

P.A

Rejected

Applicati

on

Fees

Collecti

on

No. of 1st Appeal Appe

al to

SIC

No. of

recevide

d

No. of

dispose

d

Settlement

Commissioner/Commissi

oner Survey and Land

Records

29 0 290 16 16 0

Director land record

jammu 28 0 340 0 0 0

Survey & land record jk 86 0 860 21 21 0

Regional director survey

& land record jammu 28 ----------- 50 --------- -------- -------

Regional director survey

& land record, SGR 27 0 270 0 0 0

Regional director survey

& land record, Udhampur Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil

Regional director survey

& land record, doda Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil

Regional director survey

& land record, rajouri Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil

Regional director survey

& land record, anantnag 2 0 20 2 2 0

Regional director survey

& land record, baramulla Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil

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10TH ANNUAL REPORT OF MEGHALAYA 20158

Disposal of Information requests by the Public Information Officers

Section 25 (3) (a)

During the year 2015 a total number of 2653 requests were received by the Public

Information Officers of those public authorities who have so far furnished their

reports. The number of requests carried over from the previous year were 10,

hence the total number of requests available with the PIOs for disposal were

2663. Out of these, 2601 requests were disposed off by the PIOs during the year

which is about 90%. The remaining requests were carried over to the next year

for disposal. The total number of requests rejected and deemed to have refused by

the PIOs were 75 which is approximately about 3% from the total number of

requests received by the PIOs.

Disposal of Information Requests by Public Information Officers/Public

Authorities Reporting Year: 2015

Name of

department

No. of

request

pending

No. of

request

received

Total no.

of

request

No. of

request

disposed

No. of

request

rejected

Request

deemed

to

refused

u/s-7(2)

% of cases

access to

information

denied

Dte.Land

record &

survey

Nil 3 3 3 Nil Nil Nil

8 http://megsic.gov.in/annualreport/Annual_Report-2015.pdf

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Disposal of First Appeals by the Departmental Appellate Authorities

Reporting Year: 2015

Name of

department

No. of 1st

appeal

pending

to P.A

No. of 1st

appeal

preferred

to P.A

during

year

Total no.

of appeal

to

Appellate

authority

No. of 1st

appeal

disposed

No. of 1st

appeal

rejected

% of 1st

appeal

rejected

No. of 1st

appeal

pending

for more

than 45

days

Dte.Land

record &

survey

Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil

Information Requests rejected by the PIO/Public Authorities:

Section 7 (1) empowers the Public Information Officer to reject the request for

information for any of the reasons specified under section 8 and 9 of the Right to

Information Act, 2005.

Information Requests rejected by the PIOs/Public authorities: Reporting Year:

2015

# No Request was rejected by the PIO in the year of 2015

Amount of fees & other charges collected by each Public authority:

A total amount of ` 132713/- was collected by the PIOs/Public authorities in the

form of fees and charges during the year 2015. Out of this an amount of `

19,659/- was collected under Section 4(4) of the Act, being the cost of the printed

materials in which form the information was provided. ` 41,453/- was the

application fee collected under Section 6(1) of the Act. An amount of ` 36,409/-

was collected under Section 7(1) being the cost of the photo copies made. An

amount of ` 3,857/- was collected under section 7(5) being the cost of information

provided in Electronic format. An amount of ` 31,335/- was the miscellaneous

charges collected by the Public Information Officers and the Public Authorities.

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# The Fee collected by the Department of Land Record and Survey was Nil as

per the record.

FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH 2006- 2007

Name of the

Department

No. of

request

received

No. of

application

rejected

No. of

appeal

to SIC

No. of

Disciplinary

action

against

authority

Total

fees

collected

Efforts made

by police

authority for

implementation

of act

Suitable

suggestion

for reform

of act

C.Lounchat,DFO

Lohit Wasteland

Div. Namsai

Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil

ANNUAL REPORT OF ASSAM 2015-2169

In Assam a large number of RTI applications are filed to seek information on

public distribution system, Panchayat and Rural Development, flood damage,

Gram Panchayat level Co-operative Societies, land records and land disputes,

allotment of Govt. contracts or supply of work orders, education – mainly

regularization of the services of primary school teachers, roads, agriculture,

power, public health sanitation, other civic amenities and delayed payment of

retirement benefits

Name of Department No. of public Authority No. of public information

officer designated

Mines and Mineral 6 4 Revenue, and Disaster

Management 5 4

9 http://www.cicsikkim.gov.in/

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Number of RTI application received and disposed by State Public

Information Officers under various Public Authorities.

Name of

Department

Pending

request at the

beginning of

year(1-4-15)

No. of

request

received

Total no. of

request

No. of

request

disposed off

Request

pending at

the end of

year(31-6-16

Mines and

Minerals

0 40 40 40 0

Revenue and

Disaster

management

0 184 184 184 0

Number of Applications rejected-

Name of

Department

No. of

request

rejected u/s-8

No. of

request

rejected u/s-9

No. of

request

rejected u/s-

11

No. of

request

rejected u/s-

24

Total no. of

request

rejected

Mines and

Minerals

0 0 0 0 0

Revenue and

Disaster

management

2 0 0 0 2

Number of First Appeal Petitions received and disposed by First Appellate

Authorities.

Name of

Department

Ist appeal

pending with

FAAs at the

beginning of

year(1-4-15)

No. of 1st

appeal

received

during year

Total no. of

1st appeal to

appellate

authority

No. of 1st

appeal

disposed by

appellate

authority

1st appeal

pending with

FAAs at the

end of

year(31-3-15)

Mines and

Minerals

0 3 3 3 0

Revenue and

Disaster mng.

0 13 13 13 0

A total of 2989 First Appeals were filed before the First Appellate Authorities

(FFAs) during the period of report. Out of 3081 First Appeal cases including the

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arrear of the Previous year pending with various First Appellate Authorities.

Total 2814 numbers of First Appeals were disposed of during the year 2015-16,

the rate of disposal being 91.33%.

Summary of fees collected by the Public Authorities during the year

Name of Department Amount Collected in RS

Mines and Minerals 240.00

Revenue and Disaster Management 3048.00

ANNUAL REPORT OF MIZORAM 2015-201610

ANNEXURE – 1

Implementation of the provision of Section 4 of RTI Act 2005

(Compiled as per report received from public authority during the reported year)

Name of

Department

Section 4(1)A Section 4(1)B Section 4(2) Section 4(3) Section 4(4)

Land

Revenue &

settlement

dept.

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Land

Revenue &

settlement

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

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ANNEXURE – 2

Implementation of the provision of Section 5 of RTI Act 2005

(Compiled as per report received from public authority during the reported year)

Name of the

public Authority

No. of SPIO’s No. of SAPIO’s No. of DAA’s Whether any

assistance of any

officer has been

sought by SPIO

Land Revenue &

Settlement dept.

1 1 1 NIL

Land Revenue &

Settlement

1 1 NIL NIL

ANNEXURE – 3

Implementation of the provision of Section 6 of RTI Act 2005

(Compiled as per report received from public authority during the reported year)

Name of Public

Authority

No. of application

received

No. of applicants

assisted by SPIO to

reduce an application

in writing u/s-6(1)b

No. of application

referred to another

PA/office for

providing

information.

Land Revenue &

Settlement dept.

28 NIL NIL

Land Revenue &

Settlement

404 NIL NIL

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ANNEXURE – 4

Implementation of the provision of Section 7 of RTI Act 2005

(Compiled as per report received from public authority during the reported year)

Name of

Public

Authority

Application

disposed with

in prescribed

time limit

No. of

application

rejected

No. of

application

received

concerning

life and

liberty

No. of

application

failing to

make

payment

No. of

B.P.L

applicants

No. of

sensorial

disabled

applicants

Applicatio

n

involving

third party

Land

Revenue &

Settlement

Deptt.

19 NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL

Land

Revenue &

Settlement

NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL

ANNEXURE – 5

Implementation of the provision of Section 7 of RTI Act 2005

(Compiled as per report received from public authority during the reported year)

Name of public

authority

No. of application

denied information

u/s-8

No. of application

given information

u/s-8 on the ground of

larger public interest

No. of application

rejected u/s-9

Land Revenue &

Settlement Deptt

1 NIL NIL

Land Revenue &

Settlement

NIL NIL NIL

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ANNEXURE – 6

Implementation of the provision of Section 7 of RTI Act 2005

(Compiled as per report received from public authority during the reported year)

Name of

public

authority

Appeals

filed

before

DAA

against

action

of SPIO

No. of

1st

appeal

decided

by

DAA

within

45 days

No. of

1st

appeal

rejected

No. of

1st

appeal

allowed

No. of

2nd

appeal

preferred

against

1st

appellate

authority

before

mic

No. of

2nd

appeal

decided

by mic

No. of

appeal

admitted

by mic

In how many

cases

commission

make

recommendation

and action taken

therefore

Land

Revenue

&

Settlement

Deptt.

NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL

Land

Revenue

&

Settlement

NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL

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ANNUAL REPORT OF HARYANA 1 JAN TO 31 DEC, 201211

REGISTER OF REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION & DISPOSAL OF

REQUESTS UNDER RTI ACT, 2005

Name of

Public

Authority

No. of

request

received

No. of

request

rejected

Any

disciplinary

action

taken

against

authority

for

violating of

rti act

Amount of

charges

collected

Factual

report of

efforts

made by

the Public

Authorities

to

implement

the act

Any

recommendation

received for to

amend, reform

the act. u/s-

6(1)

u/s-

7(3)

Land record

director

46 ---------- -------------- 1450 55 ------------- -------------------

Land

Reclamation

& Dev.

Corpn. Ltd.

(HLRDC)

(Chairman)

13 ---------- -------------- 650 339 ------------- --------------------

DETAILS OF PENALTY IMPOSED UPON THE STATE PUBLIC

INFORMATION OFFICER UNDER SECTION 20(1) OF THE RTI Act,

2005 by the Commission. During 1.1.2012 to 31.12.2012

Case no. Date of decision Amount

of penalty

imposed

Detail of defaulter SPIO Name & address

of the public

authority

760/2011 in

425/2011 in

1487/2011

1.2.2012 25,000/- Sh. Maya Chand Vs Sh.

Ram Avtar Gupta the then

District Revenue Officer-

cumSPIO, Rohtak (now

Land Acquisition Officer,

HUDA, Gurgaon)

District revenue

officer rohtak

74/2012 in

854/2011 in

2630/11

19.3.2012 10,000/- Sh. Bhim Singh Vs Sh.

ArvindMalhan, the then

SPIO-cum-Estate Officer,

HUDA & Land Acquisition

The Chief

Administrator,

Haryana Urban

Developmet

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Officer, Faridabad now

posted as Additional Deputy

Commissioner, Jind.

Authority, Sec-6,

Panchkula

55/2012 in

3866/2011

26.3.2012 10,000/- Sh. Shakti Chand Vs Land

Acquisition Officer, PKL

SPIO-cum-Land

Acquisition

Officer, Urban

Estate, Haryana,

Panchkula.

340 &

646/2012 in

complaint

case no.

134/201

6.11.2012 15000/- Sh. Ranjeet S. Chawla Vs

Sh. SatishBhardwaj , the

then SPIO , as District

Revenue Officer, Ambala

imposed penalty on 10000/-

and Sh. M. S . Sangwan

SPIO as Land Acquisition

Officer, Panchkula imposed

penalty on 5000/-

The Chief

Administrator,

Haryana Urban

Development

Authority,

Sector-6,

Panchkula

630 and

148/2012 in

complaint

case no.

337/2011

30.11.2012 10.000/- Sh. Sant Singh Vs Land

Acquisition Officer,

Panchkula. (5,000 by SPIO

Sh. SatishBhardwaj now

posted as District Revenue

Officer , Ambala and 5000/-

by SPIO-cum- Land

Acquisition Officer,

Panchkula)

The Chief

Administrator,

Haryana Urban

Development

Authority,

Sector-6,

Panchkul

Annexure-‘E’

List of cases in which recommendations were made to initiate Disciplinary

Proceedings by the Commission. During 1.1.2012 to 31.12.2012

Case no. Particular of case Date of decision No. of defaulter

employees

Name of public

authority

1348/2012 Sh. Rajesh Sharma,

Advocate VS Land

Acquisition Officer,

Gurgaon.

16/4/2012 2 Additional Director

(Urban Estate )

Haryana,

Panchkula.

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Annexure-‘F’

DETAILS OF THE COMPENSATION AWARDED TO THE

APPELLANTS/COMPLAINANTS UNDER SECTION 19(8) (B) OF THE

R.T.I ACT

Case no. Date of

decision

Amount of

compensation

Details of parties

823/2011 in

3340/2011

2.2.2012 2000/- Sh. Ravinder Nath Vs Land Acquisition

Officer, Urban Estate, Haryana, PKL

Complain case

no 89/2012 in

case no

4162/201

25.05.2012 5000/- Sh.Sandeep Panwar Vs Land Acquistion

Officer, Panchkula

23/2012,

79/2012,1

52/2012,

SCN=714/

2011 in Appeal

Case NO.1181

3.7.2012 2500/- Major Mahabir Prasad Vs District Town

Planner and Land Acquisition Officer,

Gurgaon

1832/2012 6.7.2012 500/- Sh. Rajesh Sharma VS Land Acquisition

Officer, Panchkula.

1907/2012 17.7.2012 1000/- Sh. Malkiat Singh Vs Land Acquisition

Officer, Panchkula

148/2012 in

Complaint

Case

No.337/20 11

19.7.2012 10,000/- Sh. Sant Singh Advocate Vs Land

Acquisition Officer, Panchkula

170/2012 in

case no.

1153/2012

29.3.2012 2000/- Sh. Ashok Kumar Loomba Vs Land

Acquistion Officer, Sector-8, Panchkula

3129/2012 20.12.2012 1000/- Smt. Janak Devi Vs Land Acquistion

Officer, Sector-14, Panchkula

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9TH ANNUAL REPORT OF TRIPURA (2013-2014)12

Disposal of request for information by the SPIOs during the period under

report:

Status of disposal of the requests for information by the State Public Information

Officers based on the Annual Reports furnished by the different Departments

stands as under (2013-14) :-

Name of the

department

No. of request

received

No. of request

disposed

No. of request

rejected

No. of request

allowed

No. of request

pending

Revenue

department

19 19 NIL 19 NIL

# Data about category-wise information was also analysed by the Commission.

The broad categories for which data was categorised are service related

information, project related information, Government Scheme related information,

information relating to examinations, information relating to delivery of services,

information relating land related issues and information on recruitment related

issues and other information. The data is presented in below table:-

Classification of Information sought by the petitioners Information Seekers

Name

of

Dept.

Service

related

info.

Project

related

info.

Gov.

scheme

related

info.

Gov.

policy

related

info.

Examination

related info.

On

delivery

of service

by gov.

departme

nt

Land

related

issue

Recruit

ment

related

issue

Other

issue

Land

revenue

1 NIL 1 NIL NIL NIL 1 NIL 16

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Office

of

Chief

Conser

vator of

forest

64 9 19 19 NIL NIL 4 24 NIL

There are other 43 department but that department does not deal with land regarding dispute

which is our topic so that why I am not including those department.

Status of Application Received under R.T.I Act from 2006-2014 by Revenue

Department

YEAR

PETITION REQUESTING FOR INFORMATION RECEIVED

PETITION ALLOWED

PETITION REJECTED

PETITION REQUESTING FOR INFORMATION SETTLED & INFORMATION PROVIDED

PETITIONS PENDING

2006-2007 36 36 0 36 0

2007-2008 27 25 2 25 0

2008-2009 116 116 0 116 0

2009-2010 9 9 0 9 0

2010-2011 37 37 0 37 0

2011-2012 230 230 0 230 0

2012-2013 270 270 0 270 0

2013-2014 19 19 0 19 0

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Application Received by Revenue Department Under R.T.I Act from 2006-

2014

The commission has closely examined the status in respect of five department of

the government having large public interface. A comparative analysis of the

position in respect of petitions received under the act and their disposal of these

five major departments are given below.

Number of applications received under the act by five major departments of

the state from 2006-2014

YEAR EDUCATION HEALTH REVENUE URBAN DEV DPTT.

PANCHAYAT

2006-2007 54 36 36 16 16

2007-2008 213 27 27 16 16

2008-2009 270 126 116 43 43

2009-2010 240 9 9 56 56

2010-2011 2061 37 37 93 93

2011-2012 162 230 230 125 125

2012-2013 174 240 270 129 218

2013-2014 178 112 19 6 298

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

Petition requesting forinformation received

Petition allowed

Petition rejected

Petition requesting forinformation settled &information provided

Petition pending

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Number of applications received under the act by five major departments of

the state from 2006-2014

The status of disposal of request for information by different departments has been

analyzed in the commission. The position in respect of five major departments is as

given below:

Status of applications received under the act status of disposing during 2013-

2014

NAME OF

DEPARTMENT

REQUEST FOR

INFORMATION

INFORMATION

PREOVIDED

REQUEST

PENDING

REVENUE

19

19

0

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

Education

Health

Revenue

Urban dev dptt.

Panchayat

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ANNUAL REPORT OF PUNJAB 201113 Comparative Study of Five major Department

Name of Department No. of cases

Health & Family welfare 939

Home (Police) 1714

Local Government 2356

Rural Development/ Panchayat 1113

Revenue 2005

School Education 2803

Reports received from Departments/ Public Authorities u/s 25 of the RTI Act

Department

name

Request

received

Request

rejected

Reason for rejection Disciplinary

action

against taken

Total penalty

Sec8(1) Section other h J 9 11 24 Revenue,

Rehabilitation

disaster

management

11808 119 2 19 0 5 0 20 25002 180041

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Health & Family welfare 9%

Home (Police) 16%

Local government 21%

Rural development/Panc

hayat 10%

Revenue 18%

School Education 26%

No. of cases

Health & Family welfare 9%

Home (Police) 16%

Local government 21%

Rural development/Panchayat10%

Revenue 18%

School Education 26%

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Revenue Report under section 25 received from authorities

Public

Authority

Request

Received

Request reject

ted

Reason for

rejection

Disciplinary

action against

taken

Total penalty

Land revenue 71 0 0 1543

Director land

record,

jalandhar

punjab

653 0 0 28482

Revenue Report regarding Appeals

Designation

of public

authority

Designation of

1st appeal

authority

Previous

balance

Total no.

of 1st

appeal

instituted

No. of

appeals

decided

No. of

appeals

pending

No. of

appeal

rejected

No. of

appeal

accepted

Land

revenue Br.

F.C.R/Secretary/

special

additional

secretary

revenue/ O.S.D

litigation

NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL

ANNUAL REPORT OF GUJARAT 2015-201614

Appeal/complaint received by commission in respect of Land revenue department

in 2015-2016

Department No. of appeal No. of

complaints

Total number Contribution in

percentage

Revenue

Department

1586 45 1631 19.30

According to this data, commission received approx 20% of complaint and appeal

in respect of Land Revenue department out of 100% of complain and appeal.

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Application received by the Department and Appeal in 2015-2016

Department Number of application received

Department Public authority Total number Contribution

in percentage

Revenue Department 1391 33251 34642 22.77

Request was made by the citizens in respect of revenue department was approx

23% of the total request.

Comparative statement showing details of Appeal/Complaints received by

commission during the two last year.

Department Application received

2015-16 2014-15 Difference %age difference

Revenue 1631 1666 -35 -2.10

Rejection of Applications by Department during 2015-2016

Department No. of application received

No. of application rejected

Details of various provision used for rejecting the provision

Section 8 (1) Other sections

A B C D E F G H I J 9 11 24 Other

Revenue 34642 1508 (4.3%) 21 5 12 23 0 18 9 9 8 13 0 72 35 2608

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ANNUAL REPORT OF TAMIL NADU 201215

ANNEXURE – I

Secretariat Departments / Head of Department /

Public Undertakings / Disposal of applications by Public Information Officers

(As furnished by the Public Authorities)

Department No. of request made

No. of cases where document not given

No. of appeals to S.I.C

Any disciplinary action taken against authority

charges collected (in Rs.)

Public Authorities to administer & implement the Act

Any reform, development, improvement, modernization or amendment to the Act

Sec-25 (3a)

Sec-25 (3b)

Sec-25 (3c)

Sec-25 (3d) Sec-25 (3e)

Sec-25 (3f) Sec-25 (3g)

Revenue Department

Revenue Department, Secretariat

1716

39

---------

------------

1620

-------------

-------------------

Revenue Administration, Disaster Management and Mitigation Department

402

2

1

------------

4020

-------------

------------------

All District Collectorates

95761

3500

1240

---------------

965202

--------------

------------------

Director of Land Reforms

136

-------------

---------

---------------

-----------

Best efforts are being taken

-------------------

Survey and Land

6562

------------

54

---------------

194241

-------------

-------------------

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Records Department

Commissioner of Land Administration

1037

24

8

--------------- 11137

--------------

-------------------

Director of Urban Land Ceiling & Urban Land Tax

200

-----------

---------

--------------

4

--------------

-------------------

ANNEXURE II

Details of request for Information rejected by Public Information Officers

(As furnished by the Public Authorities)

Name of Dept.

No. of request rejected under

Revenue Dept.

Sec 8(1)a

Sec 8(1)b

Sec 8(c)

Sec 8(1)d

Sec 8(1)e

Sec 8(1)f

Sec 8(1)g

Sec 8(1)h

Sec 8(1)I

Sec 8(1)j

Sec 9

Sec 11

Others Total

Revenue Department, Secretariat

------

-------

-----

-------

------

------

------

-------

-------

------

----

----

--------

12

Revenue Administration, Disaster Management and Mitigation Department

-------

-------

-----

------

-------

------

-------

------

-------

------

----

----

--------

------

All District Collectorates.

29

10

4

10

43

18

9

9

9

57

16

115

--------

1179

Director of Land Reforms

------

-------

-----

------

------

------

------

------

-------

------

----

----

--------

------

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Survey and Land Records Department

-------

-------

-----

7

-------

-------

------

------

13

-------

----

----

--------

4

Commissioner of Land Administration

2

------

-----

------

-------

-------

-------

------

-------

------

----

----

--------

------

Director of Urban Land Ceiling & Urban Land Tax

-------

-------

-----

------

-------

-------

-------

-------

-------

-------

----

----

--------

------

Total

31

10

4

17

43

18

9

9

22

57

16

115

-------

1195

ANNEXURE -IV

Disposal of Information requests by the Public Information Officers

(As furnished by the Public Authorities)

Revenue Department

Name of the Department

No. of PIOs

No. of request pending at the end of year 31.12.2011

No. of request received during the year 2012

Total of request column 3+4

No. of request transferred to other authority

No. of request disposing off to provide information

No. of request rejected

No. of request pending on 31.12.12 column 5-(6+7+8)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Revenue Department, Secretariat

14

-------------

1716

1716

615

1089

12

------------

Revenue Administration, Disaster Management and Mitigation Department

8

-------------

402

402

64

338

----------

------------

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All District Collectorates

338 7113 95761 102874 22874 74518 1508 3974

Director of Land Reforms.

2 ------------- 136 136 9 127 ---------- ------------

Survey and Land Records Department

76

220

6562

6782

2401

4081

24

276

Commissioner of Land Administration.

5

-------------

1037

1037

-------------

1035

2

------------

Director of Urban Land Ceiling & Urban Land Tax

11

-------------

200

200

-------------

182

----------

18

Total 454 7333 105814 113147 25963 81370 1546 4268

ANNEXURE - V

Disposal of First Appeals by the First Appellate Authorities

(As furnished by the Public Authorities)

Revenue Department

Name of the Department

No. of appealate authority

No. of 1st appeal pending on 31.12.2011

No. of 1st appeal received during the year 2012

Total no. of 1st appeals column (3+4)

No. of 1st appeal disposed of providing information

No. of 1st appeal pending

No. of 1st appeal pending on 31.12.12 column 5-(6+7)

Revenue Department, Secretariat

8

-------------

72

72

55

17

-----------

Revenue Administration, Disaster Management and Mitigation Department

4

-------------

3

3

3

----------

-----------

All District Collectorates.

338 646 9432 10078 9471 129 478

Director of Land Reforms.

2 ------------- ---------- --------- -------------- ---------- -----------

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Survey and Land Records Department

39

31

237

268

236

4

28

Commissioner of Land Administration

3

------------

5

5

5

----------

-----------

Director of Urban Land Ceiling & Urban Land Tax.

1

------------

-----------

---------

--------------

----------

-----------

Total 395 677 9749 10426 9770 150 506

ANNUAL REPORT OF SIKKIM 201516

Statement of implementation by Public Authorities /PSUs under Section 25(3) of

the Right to Information Act, 2005

Name of depatt.

No. of request received from public authority

No. of requests disposed

No. of pending request

Appeals to SIC

Penalty imposed by SIC

Disciplinary action recommended by SIC

collected 6(1)

Fee collected u/s 7(1) and 7(5)

No. of 1st appeal preferred during year

No. of 1st appeal pending with 1st appellate authority

Land revenue & disaster management

85

83

2

-----------

-----------

-------------------

850

442

NIL

NIL

Mr. Shanti Ram Bahun. Vs. SPIO, Roads & Bridges Department 17

State Public Information Officer, Assistant Public Information Officer (South

West) Sub Division along with the appellant Mr. Shanti Ram Bahun present.

The Commission has been informed that all information’s requested by the

appellant vide his application dated 9/7/2013 is being made available to the

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appellant which the appellant has also confirmed except the information relating to

Measurement Book which was till date with the Land Revenue & Disaster

Management Department as PMGSRY is the programmed directly implemented

under the supervision of Land Revenue & Disaster Management Department. The

State Public Information Officer has received Measurement Book from the Land

Revenue & Disaster Management Department and he is now in a position to reveal

details of Measurement Book to the appellant. The appellant may if he desires to

see the Measurement Book immediately, the State Public Information Officer may

show the details today itself and provide the details in writing by Thursday i.e.

28/11/2013. The Assistant Public Information Officer, Yang Yang Sub Division

has assured to provide all the information which the appellant has sought for. The

appellant is satisfied with the assurance given to him by the State Public

Information Officer and Assistant Public Information Officer and he has no

objection on the other information’s already provided to him hence this

Commission feels that there is no need to further peruse with regard to section 20

(1) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 against the State Public Information

Officer and Assistant Public Information Officer. The explanations / clarifications

submitted by the Appellate Authority to this Commission vide his letter no.

111/GOS/R&B/GEN/13-14/ACES/W 270 (A) dated 22/11/2013 is found

unsatisfactory. The Appellate Authority on receipt of Appeal Petition is duty

bound to provide opportunity of hearing to the appellants grievances in his office

which is mandatory under section 19 (1) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 but

in the instant case the Appellate Authority has failed to do so with the result

unnecessary harassment and delay of the case have taken place. Personal

appearance of the Appellate Authority before this Commission has not been

directed by the order of this Commission dated 18/11/2013, the written directive of

this Commission is only to ensure proper discharge of his duties and function as

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the Appellate Authority which he has failed to do so. The Appellate Authority is

further in this regard warned to be more serious and attentive while discharging his

duties as Appellate Authority as contemplated in the Right to Information Act,

2005 so that the appellant should be able to avail his rights as enshrined in the

constitution of India and the Right to Information Act, 2005 without any

difficulties. Meanwhile I request the Head of the Department concerned to issue an

appropriate directives from his office to all the Appellate Authorities as well as the

State Public Information Officers and Assistant Public Information Officers to

dispose of all cases of RTI in accordance with the provisions of the act with due

diligence and judiciously.

This case was generally related to road and bridges and appellant wanted to

information about the measurement of roads and bridges and also about the details

of such activity. This shows about the awareness among the people and that is

possible because of R.T.I.

ANNUAL REPORT OF RAJASTHAN 2014-201518

Application received by Department under the act in 2014-2015

Name of

department

no. of application

received

No. of cases

where

information

Provided

No. of

request

rejected

No. of

pending

application

Collection of

fee in 2014-

2015

Total

no.

District

head

office

level

other Within

time

After

expiry

of

time

Revenue

circle

557 534 23 530 16 10 1 10027

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Revenue

department

1166 827 339 1082 56 27 1 16904

Appeal Application before appellate authority 2014-2015

Name of Department No. of 1st appeal Decided appeal Pending appeal

Accepted Rejected

Revenue circle 56 32 14 10

Revenue department 44 44 0 0

ANNUAL REPORT OF KARNATAKA 2014-201519

Department wise total requests Received-Disposed in the State (including

First Appeals) during the Year 2014-15

Name of the Department Total no. of request received Total disposal of case

Revenue Department 200703 194109

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200703

194109

190000

192000

194000

196000

198000

200000

202000

Revenue Department

Total no. of requestreceived

Total disposal of case

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Among several departments, Revenue Department received the highest number of

requests for information (2, 00,703). Revenue Department saw an increase of

36.80% respectively.

Department wise number of requests pending at the end of 2014-15

Name of the Department

No. of Pending requests

Revenue Department

5932

A total of 5932 requests were reported pending in Revenue Department in 2014-

2015

Requests for Information filed Under Sec.6 of the RTI Act and their Disposal

by the Public Information Officers

Name of the Department

Requests pending at the beginning of year

No. of requests received

Total no. of requests

No. of requests disposed

Requests pending at the end of year

Revenue Department

12580 179622 192202 186270 5932

Number of requests rejected Under Section 8(1) and on other grounds by the

State Public Information Officers

Name of department

Sec 8(1)a

Sec (1)b

Sec (1)c

Sec (1)d

Sec (1)e

Sec (1)f

Sec (1)g

Sec (1)h

Sec (1)I

Sec (1)j

Other sections

Total

Revenue department

0 0 0 0 30 0 2 0 0 562 48 642

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Disposal of Appeals by First Appellate Authorities filed under

Sec.19(1) of the Act

Name of the department

1st appeal pending with Appellate authorities at the beginning of year

No. of 1st appeal received by Appellate authorities during the year

Total no. of 1st appeals with Appellate authorities

No. of 1st appeals disposed by Appellate authorities

No. of 1st appeals pending with FAAs

Revenue department

1782 6719 8501 7839 662

Disposal of Complaints by the Commission (department-wise) under section

18(1)

Name of the department

No. of complaints pending at the end of last year

No. of complaints received during the year

Total no. of complaints

No. of complaints disposed

No. of complaints pending

Revenue department

352 644 996 459 537

Disposal of Second Appeals by the Commission (department-wise) under

section 19(3)

Name of the department

No. of second appeals pending at end of last year

No. of second appeals received during the year

Total no. of second appeals

No. of second appeals disposed

No. of second appeals pending

Revenue department

3663 2964 6627 1615 5012

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ANNUAL REPORT OF WEST BENGAL 201520

Land and Land Reform Department

Name of the authority

No. of cases where access granted

Deemed refusal or rejected

No. of cases where 1st appeal has been made 19(1)

Efforts made by authority to administered or facilitate the act

Within 30 Days

After 30 days

u/s-7(2 ) others Access granted

Denied

SPIO

177

39

37

25

20

1

NIL

DLLRO, birbhum

583

0

0

0

41

0

A special cell has been formed to deal with cases of R.T.I

Presidency division

3

0

0

0

0

0

NIL

DLLRO, jalpaiguri

524

13

0

0

14

0

NIL

LA Collector KOL

231

10

0

0

1

0

Letters have been issued to 72 applicants to provide more relevant information w.r.t schedule of land and rest of the application are being processed.

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ANNUAL REPORT OF ODISHA 2012-201321

Department which received more than 1000 applications

According to mentioned chart Revenue & disaster management had received

highest application then other 11 departments. It shows that people awareness is

increased in respect of land resources and large people are filing an application in

this specific department.

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12415

6021

30232181 1787 1785 1732 1371 1273 1253 1215 1173

0

2000

4000

6000

8000

10000

12000

14000

Received application

Receivedapplication

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An overview of the Department wise disposal of applications

[Reporting period from 01/04/12 to 31/03/13]

Name of department

Opening balance of Request received under RTI(on 1st April)

No. of request during the year

Total no. of requests column (2+3)

No. of requests on which information provided

No. of requests transferred to other public authorities

Decisions where applications for information rejected

Total disposal column (5+6+7)

% of disposal of the application

Revenue & Disaster management

2204

12415

14619

11024

1296

742

13062

89.35

Data of Appeal and Implementation of RTI by public authorities 2012-2013

(Reporting period from 01/04/2012 to 31/03/2013)

Department

Opening balance of 1st appeal received under RTI(as on 1st April)

No. of 1st appeal received during the year

No. of 1st appeal disposed off

No. of cases where disciplinary action taken against authority

Disclosure made u/s 4(1)b of act

Revenue & Disaster Management

16

185

171

0

Yes

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ANNUAL REPORT UTTRAKHAND 2013-201422

First five Department who received higher application

Revenue

department

Home

department

Education

department

Forest

department

Urban

development

department

23622 13948 9299 9183 6222

Application received for obtaining information 2013-2014

Name of the Department

Number of Application Received

Revenue Department

23622

Revenue Department is a department who received highest application in this year.

The total number of application received is 23622 which is approx 23% of total

application received by all department.

Second Appeal received by the authority under the RTI act

Name of the Department

Number of Second Appeal

Revenue Department

589

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Application received by authorities under the RTI act

Name of the department

No. of application received

No. of disposed application

No. of rejected application

Total no. of 1st appeal

No. of 1st appeal of disposed off application

No. of 1st appeal of rejected application

Total fee collection

Revenue department

23622

22941

49

2668

2579

65

160540

ANNUAL REPORT OF ANDHRA PRADESH 201323

Department wise Receipt of Second Appeal and Complaints by the

Commission.

The Commission received 11,388 Appeals and Complaints out of 3707

has been received by Revenue Department during 2013 and this is

highest received application data among all departments. Department

wise break up is given below.

Name of the Department No. of Appeals and Complaints Received

Agriculture 379

Energy 309

Finance 51

Home 640

Housing 144

Industries 110

Law 163

Minorities welfare 134

Planning 10

Revenue 3707

School Education 845

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Comparative Analysis of Application received by different

departments

A DETAILS OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED, DISPOSED AND PENDING

IN THE STATE FOR THE PERIOD 01‐01‐2013 TO 31‐12‐2013

Revenue Department

Secretariat Departments & Hods Working under their control

Total no. of application pending as on 1-01-2013

Total no. of application received during 1-01-2013

Total no, of applications disposed during the period from 1-01-2013 to 31-12-2013

Total no. of applications pending as on 1-01-2014

Out of cases disposed shown in col. 4

Out of cases disposed shown in col. 4 deemed refusal u/s 7(2)/18(1)

Out of total disposal in col. 4, cases rejected u/s

6 8(1)b

8(1)d

8(1)h

8(1)j 9 11 24 other

Secretariat Departme

nt

876

976

470

1382

470

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

Commr. Of survey settlement & land record

233

4307

4332

208

4206

19

12

0

0

1

0

0

0

35

59

2

Chief commr, of land adm.

6141

55901

57518

4524

57223

259

23

0

0

0

0

4

1

0

8

3

Commr. Of I.G registra

150

5779

5796

133

5796

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

379 30951

640

144 110 163 134 10

3707

845

83

1530

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

4000

Appeals & Complaints Received

Appeals & Complaints Received

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tion & stamp

4

Commr. Of prohibition & excise

43

365

361

47

361

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

5

Commr. Of commercial tax

80

1071

1076

75

1003

22

25

0

2

0

11

0

0

0

13

6

A.P beverages corporation

2

28

27

3

27

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

7

Sales tax appellate tribunal

0

1

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

8

Commr. Of endowments

75

429

452

52

400

0

0

0

0

0

18

0

0

0

34

9

Spl. Court, land

0

5

5

0

0

0

0

5

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

DETAILS OF FIRST APPEALS RECEIVED, DISPOSED AND PENDING

IN THE STATE FOR THE PERIOD 01‐01‐2013 TO 31‐12‐2013

Revenue Department

Secretariat Departments & HODS working under their control

Total no. of AA’s in each sect, HOD & other units

Total no. of 1st appeals received during 1-01-2013 to 31-12-2013

Total no. of 1st appeals received during 1-01-2013 to 31-12-2013

Total no. of 1st appeals disposed during the period from 1-01-2013 to 31-12-2013

Total no. of 1st appeals pending as on 1-01-2014

Out of cases disposed shown in col.5 information furnished

Out of total disposal in col. 5 , cases rejected u/s

6

9

other

Secretariat Department

4

46

73

44

75

44

0

0

0

1

Commr. Of survey settlement & land record

1

13

188

168

33

168

0

0

0

2

Chief commissioner of land administration

133

828

3956

3963

821

3941

22

0

0

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3

Commr. & I.G, registration & stamps

535

6

318

310

14

310

0

0

0

4

Commr. Of prohibition & excise

450

9

79

77

11

77

0

0

0

5

Commissioner of commercial taxes

217

9

104

99

14

86

8

4

1

6

A.P beverages corporation

1

0

3

3

0

3

0

0

0

7

Sales tax appellate tribunal

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

8

Commissioner of endowments

45

12

190

138

64

78

0

18

42

9

Spl. Court land grabbing of AP

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

ANNUAL REPORT OF CENTRAL INFORMATION

COMMISSION 2015-2016- Name of Department

Opening balance of Requests received under RTI (1st April)

No. of Requests Received during year

No. of Request transferred to other PA’S

Total no. of Appeal received

Total no. of Appeal disposed

Decisions where Applications for Information rejected

No. of cases where disciplinary action taken against authority

All India soil & land use survey

0

6

0

1

1

0(0%)

0

Name of Department

Opening balance of Requests received RTI (1st April 2015)

No. of Requests received during year

No. of Requests transferred to other Pas

Total no. of Appeal received

Total no. of Appeal disposed

Decisions where application rejected

No. of cases where disciplinary action taken against authority

Rejecting Request u/s 8(1) c

Department of Land Resources

0

147

134

6

6

4 (2.7%)

0

4

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Name of Department

Opening balance of Requests received RTI (1st April 2015)

No. of Requests received during year

No. of Requests transferred to other Pas

Total no. of Appeal received

Total no. of Appeal disposed

Decisions where application rejected

No. of cases where disciplinary action taken against authority

Rejecting Request u/s 8(1) J

Land and Development office

36

1157

128

152

161

0(0%)

0

1

Name of Department

Opening balance of Requests received RTI (1st April 2015)

No. of Requests received during year

No. of Requests transferred to other Pas

Total no. of Appeal received

Total no. of Appeal disposed

Decisions where application rejected

No. of cases where disciplinary action taken against authority

Land and Building Department

246

652

122

81

78

0(0%)

0

Name of Department

Opening balance of Requests received RTI (1st April 2015)

No. of Requests received during year

No. of Requests transferred to other Pas

Total no. of Appeal received

Total no. of Appeal disposed

Decisions where application rejected

No. of cases where disciplinary action taken against authority

Land and Survey Department

18

238

7

24

18

0(0%)

0

DIGITALIZATION OF LAND RECORD PROGRAMME AND

R.T.I-

Before establishment of this programme no online record regarding land was

present in the government departments and people who wanted to take information

from the the department faced several difficulties. Under section 4 of R.T.I there is

provision regarding suo moto and land record is also a public document so to

provide online land record to the applicants and as well as citizen is also a duty of

government departments. In the light of the recent land scam case that has surfaced

against retired IAS officer GS Sandhu, who allegedly transferred a society deed of

a land measuring 40,000 square yards to a builder against norms in 2011 when he

was additional chief secretary, urban development and housing. The Land

Transformation Management System espoused by the Modi government in the

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Union Budget 2016-17 is an important step, indeed, to tackle the nuisance of

illegal land acquisition cases.24

Land being the costliest asset in realty has often been at the epicenter of land

fights, property crimes and frauds. Way back in 1988, the central government then

sponsored the Computerization of Land Records (CoLR) scheme to tackle the

recurring problems owing to inadequate land records system.

Again in 2008-09, an attempt was made by launching the ambitious National Land

Records Modernization Programme. Under this programme, land record

computerization and digitization, a responsibility of the states, was supposed to

cover all 620 districts of the country by 2017 at the close of the 12th Plan. The

scheme did not see much headway as it proved to be a challenging one from the

cost perspective.

Several states providing digitization of land records to the citizens under the

(DILRMP) Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme like

KARNATAKA – DIGITALIZATION OF LAND RECORD

PROGRAMME25

Revenue Department in Karnataka has rendered a yeoman service for the 6.7

million farmers of Karnataka by Computerizing 200 million records of land

ownerships. Earlier farmers were dependent on village level functionaries of

Revenue Department in Karnataka to get a copy of Record of Rights, Tenancy and

Crops (RTC). RTC has become a very important document in obtaining bank loans

and property transactions. Today for a meagre fee of `10/- a printed copy of the

24 http://www.firstpost.com/business/digitisation-of-land-records-how-the-relaunched-programme-will-help-

overcome-property-crimes-and-frauds-2708226.html 25 http://kic.gov.in:8080/jsp/Downloads/Annual%20Report/2014-15ENG.pdf

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RTC can be obtained online at computerised land records kiosks (Bhoomi Centres)

in 203 taluk offices. Bhoomi is a project conceived and implemented by Govt. of

Karnataka with NIC as technical partner. The project is funded by Govt. of India.

Under Bhoomi project all the records have been verified and certified by the

revenue authorities before making digital database as the only source of land

records. Manual records have been invalidated and any change in RoRs will

happen through online mutation application only. On an average Bhoomi software

handles more than one lakh mutation a month. A large number of revenue officials

have been mobilized to work on the system and clear cut roles have been assigned

to them. The main objective of the Bhoomi Project are facilitating maintenance and

prompt updating of land records which can be easily accessed by the farmers. It

further aims at making land records tamper proof and collating the information to

prepare a database regarding land revenue, cropping pattern and land use etc.

which can be used by banks, private organizations, companies etc.

HARYANA - DIGITALIZATION OF LAND RECORD

PROGRAMME26

Revenue Department, Government of Haryana has embarked on an ambitious

program on Modernization of Land Records to offer transparent and efficient

services to Land Owners in the State. It is a pioneer initiative in the State under

the National Land Records Modernization Programme (NLRMP) funded by

Department of Land Resources, MoRD, GoI. The work under the NLRMP has

been outsourced by the implementing agency, Haryana Space Applications Centre

(HARSAC), Hisar. Revenue Department, Government of Haryana has made the

Haryana Space Applications Centre (HARSAC), Hisar the nodal agency to

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implement this programme in Haryana State. The main objective of the project is

to develop a modern, comprehensive and transparent land records management

system in the state with the aim to implement a single window system to handle

land records, including maintenance and updating of textual records, maps, survey

and settlement operation and registration of immovable property. Besides the

preservation and permanence of records, this information can be used in land value

assessment, preparation of field level soil health cards, smart cards for farmers to

facilitate e-governance and e-banking, settlement of compensation claims, land

acquisition and rehabilitation, crop insurance, grant of agricultural subsidies etc.

Haryana State has about 7085 Revenue Villages covering an area of 44212 sq. km.

and having about 1.10 crore land parcels. The State has taken up activity of

updation and scanning of 62000 Cadastral Maps (Mussavies) using GIS and

scanning of all five crore duplex pages of old Revenue Records including

Jamabandis, Mutations, Khasra, Girdawaris, Field Books and Registered Deeds of

Preceding 12 years. Survey and re-survey using Differential Global Positioning

System (DGPS) has also been started. 121 Primary Control Points and monuments

have been established at each 20 km. 589 Secondary Control Points at each 8 km

in the entire state have also been established. 18,000 Tertiary Control Points are

proposed to be established. The PAN stereo high resolution satellite image costing

to `9 crore (approx.) has been obtained for the entire state. As part of the initiative,

Proof of Concept (PoC) has been attempted in a few selected places in the state

involving comprehensive exercise covering various aspects of land records. Under

PoC, some villages have been selected as a pilot village in various districts to

demonstrate the Proof of Concept on the project. Entire database envisaged under

the project has been digitized and linked. Printed land record maps along with the

ownership details were distributed to all the land owners in the villages by the

Revenue Department and their objections were invited. In a Jalsa-E-Aam held in

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each such village, HARSAC demonstrated the outcome and usefulness of the

project for the farmers through presentation and exhibition.

Khanapuram Gandaiah v. Administrative Officer & Ors,27

This special leave petition has been filed against the judgment and order dated

24.4.2009 passed in Writ Petition No.28810 of 2008 by the High Court of Andhra

Pradesh by which the writ petition against the order of dismissal of the petitioner’s

application and successive appeals under the Right to Information Act, 2005

(hereinafter called the “RTI Act”) has been dismissed. In the said petition, the

direction was sought by the Petitioner to the Respondent No.1 to provide

information as asked by him vide his application dated 15.11.2006 from the

Respondent No.4 – a Judicial Officer as for what reasons, the Respondent No.4

had decided his Miscellaneous Appeal dishonestly.

The facts and circumstances giving rise to this case are, that the petitioner claimed

to be in exclusive possession of the land in respect of which civil suit No.854 of

2002 was filed before Additional Civil Judge, Ranga Reddy District praying for

perpetual injunction by Dr. Mallikarjina Rao against the petitioner and another,

from entering into the suit land. Application filed for interim relief in the said suit

stood dismissed. Being aggrieved, the plaintiff therein preferred CMA No.185 of

2002 and the same was also dismissed. Two other suits were filed in respect of

the same property impleading the Petitioner also as the defendant. In one of the

suits i.e. O.S. No.875 of 2003, the Trial Court granted temporary injunction against

the Petitioner. Being aggrieved, Petitioner preferred the CMA No.67 of 2005,

which was dismissed by the Appellate Court – Respondent No.4 vide order dated

10.8.2006.

27 scc slp no.34868 OF 2009

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In this case the petitioner challenged the said order before the High Court, seeking

a direction to the Respondent No.1 to furnish the information as under what

circumstances the Respondent No.4 had passed the Judicial Order dismissing the

appeal against the interim relief granted by the Trial Court.

Decision-

A judicial officer is entitled to get protection and the object of the same is not to

protect malicious or corrupt judges, but to protect the public from the dangers to

which the administration of justice would be exposed if the concerned judicial

officers were subject to inquiry as to malice, or to litigation with those whom their

decisions might offend. If anything is done contrary to this, it would certainly

affect the independence of the judiciary. A judge should be free to make

independent decisions. As the petitioner has misused the provisions of the RTI Act,

the High Court had rightly dismissed the writ petition.

In view of the above, the Special Leave Petition is dismissed accordingly

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CONCLUSION-

The Right to Information Act of 2005, signals a radical shift in our governance

culture and permanently impact all agencies of state. The effective implementation

of this law depends on three fundamental shifts:

From the prevailing culture of secrecy to a new culture of openness,

From personalized despotism to authority coupled with accountability ; and

From unilateral decision making to participative governance.

In whole research at several stage we found that Right to Information gives a lot

benefit to the citizen and also to government departments by providing

information. It creates transparency between the government and citizens. In our

research we have mentioned several state information commissions’ report this is

possible only through RTI although all the application was made by the people but

that is possible because we have RTI act. Secondly several application was made

regarding land resources and people received information even some cases was

also filed in the Supreme Court and High Court. Some appeal was made before

central information commission and state information commission and through this

we found several landmark decisions like land record is a public record as held by

CIC commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu. This act also used by professionals like

lawyers, charted accountant etc. by using information as received by RTI in

disputed matter. At this modern era of time RTI is playing a great role in our

country. Provision mentioned under section 4 sub-clause 2 of RTI act deals with

SUO-MOTO. It helps us to obtain information even without filing any application

and it creates a confidence in the mind of people for public authorities.

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SUGGESTIONS-

In 2008 National Land Records Modernization Programme was launched but due

to some reason that was not enforced successfully after in 2016 (DILRMP) Digital

India Land Records Modernization programme was launched and under this

programme several states provides online digital land records but still a lot of RTI

application is filling by citizens due to unawareness of this scheme. Secondly,

while making a research report I found that even several state commission do not

have a annual report and those who have but not updated. This creates a bad

impact on citizens about the working of commissions. Even sites of several state

information commission is not opening and contact number providing in the last of

RTI Act is not correct. Some states are providing annual report but data under the

report is not clear. All these are lacuna which creates a barrier between the citizen

and authorities of RTI.

Some suggestions regarding RTI Act

Under section 4(2) of RTI there is provision of suo-moto and ‘shall’ word is

used there it means a legal obigation over authority but in real sense it is not

implemented by all authority.

Under section 25 of the act it is mentioned about Monitoring and Reporting

and the word which is used is ‘shall’ but again several state are not

providing annual reports. This is violation of law but in the absence of strict

penalties no one taking it seriously.

Under the RTI act there is only monetary penalty which is also not very

huge so it’s fails to create a fear in the PIO,s.

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Penal Penalty should be provided by the act because now RTI become a

paramount subject of law and internal functioning of our nation can be

transparent only through RTI Act. So Penal penalty should be provided for

the betterment of working.

In case of appeal to the commission applicants have to approach SIC or CIC

and to attend the hearing they have to go that place where SIC or CIC

located. This imposes mentally stress and pressure upon applicants. In my

opinion some authority should be send through the CIC or SIC at that place

where applicants lives.

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Reference-

1. Annual Report of H.P- www.hp.gov.in

2. Annual Report of Jammu & Kashmir- http://jksic.nic.in

3. Annual Report of Meghalaya- http://megsic.gov.in

4. Annual Report of Arunachal Pradesh- http://www.arnsic.nic.in/

5. Annual Report of Haryana- http://cicharyana.gov.in/

6. Annual Report of Punjab- www.infocommpunjab.com

7. Annual Report of Tamil Nadu- http://www.tnsic.gov.in/

8. Annual Report of Tripura- http://rtitripura.nic.in/

9. Annual Report of Sikkim- http://www.cicsikkim.gov.in/

10. Annual Report of Gujarat- http://gic.gujarat.gov.in/default.aspx

11. Annual Report of Assam- http://www.sicassam.in/

12. Annual Report of Mizoram- https://mic.mizoram.gov.in/

13. Annual Report of Rajasthan- http://ric.rajasthan.gov.in/

14. Annual Report of Karnataka- http://www.kic.gov.in

15. Annual Report of West Bengal- http://wbic.gov.in/

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16. Annual Report of Uttrakhand- http://uic.gov.in/

17. Annual Report of Andhra Pradesh- http://www.apic.gov.in/

18. Annual Report of Odisha - http://orissasoochanacommission.nic.in

19. Annual Report of Central Information Commission- http://www.cic.gov.in

CASES-

1. State of U.P v. Raj Narain AIR 1975

2. Mr surender Pal Singh vs Gnctd delhi- CIC/SA/A/2014

3. Adarash Cop-Op. Hsg. Soc.Ltd., vs Union Of India And Ors, w,p no. 369 of

2011

4. Mr. Shanti Ram Bahun. Vs. SPIO, Roads & Bridges Department

5. Khanapuram Gandaiah v. Administrative Officer & Ors scc slp no.34868 OF

2009