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Clarification on process of transfer, closure, re-investment, payment of interest/maturity value of MIS/RD/SCSS/TD/PPF/Certificates in CBS Post Office

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Minutes of the meeting with JCM (on Pension matters) and the Secretary (Pension) held on 25.09.2014

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Pre 2006 Pensioner's Arrears from 01.01.2006: Law Ministry's advise to DoP & PW

Attendance.gov.in: Modi government launches website to track attendance of government employees

Using UIDAI, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government has launched a Biometric Attendance System (BAS) for government employees. Attendance.gov.in has been launched to keep a track on the attendance records of employees. 

Under the system, an organisation needs to register on the website. According to the website, "A back-end administrator will check the details of the organisation submitted and make the organisation active by assigning it a unique sub-domain which will be the first name of the website." 

 

Aadhaar number is essential for registering an employee in BAS. The Attendance IDs of employees will be generated from their Aadhaar numbers. The 6 digit number will be generated based on the last 6 or first 6 digits of the person's Aadhaar number. The attendance ID will only be active when the employee's Aadhaar information has been verified by UIDAI and activated by the Nodal officer. 

The employees will be required to enter their 6-digit Attendance ID on the terminal and subsequently the system will ask for finger print verification. The staff will be able to mark attendance in any bio-metric terminal installed in various Central Government buildings. 

Since network connectivity is essential for marking attendance, the government is planning two types of connectivity with each attendance terminal; wi-fi on NICNET/broadband and SIM based GSM connectivity on tablets. 

The system will not only help track the number of registered organisations and employees, but also give a dynamic interface to know the number of people attending office and the count of active devices. 

 

Source:-The Economic Times

MACP on Hierarchy: Pr. CAT directs to implement the judgment of High Court

Modified Assured Career Progression (MACP) on Promotional Hierarchy:  Hon’ble Principal Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), New Delhi directs Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development to implement the judgement of Hon’ble Punjab & Haryana High Court in Union of India & others v. Raj Pal & another (CWP No.19387/2011) decided on 19.10.2011 to the applicant within 4 weeks.

Central Administrative Tribunal
Principal Bench, New Delhi

O.A.No.2553/2013

Monday, this the 15th day of September, 2014

Hon ble Mr. A.K. Bhardwaj, Member (J)
Hon ble Mr. V.N. Gaur, Member (A)

1. All India CPWD Office Staff Association
Through its General Secretary
Mr. Rajesh Kumar Srivastava
C Wing, Ground floor
Near Generator Room
IP Bhawan, New Delhi-2

2. Mr. Pradeep Singh Bist
Age 44 years
s/o Mr. K S Bist
r/o Flat No.167, Sector 5
R K Puram, New Delhi-22

3. Mr. Sanjeev Kumar
Aged 48 years
s/o Mr. Chandra Bhan
r/o F-2887, Betaji Nagar
New Delhi-23

4. Mr. Pankaj Atri
Age 42 years
s/o late Mr. R C Sharma
r/o 165/16, Shivaji Nagar
Gurgaon (HR)
.. Applicant
(By Advocate: Mr. S K Gupta)

Versus

Union of India through

1. Secretary
Ministry of Urban Development
Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi

2. Director General
Central Public Works Department
Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi
..Respondents
(By Advocate: Mr. Rajinder Nischal)

O R D E R (ORAL)

Mr. A.K. Bhardwaj:
Learned counsels for the parties are ad idem that the controversy involved in the present Original Application is, in all fours, of the decision of Hon ble Punjab & Haryana High Court in Union of India & others v. Raj Pal & another (CWP No.19387/2011) decided on 19.10.2011.

2. In view of the aforementioned stand taken by the parties, the Original Application is disposed of with direction to the respondents to extend the benefit of the said judgment of Hon ble Punjab & Haryana High Court to the applicants herein also within a period of twelve weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this Order. No costs.

( V.N. Gaur ) ( A.K. Bhardwaj )
Member (A) Member (J)

15th September 2014
/sunil/

Source: http://judis.nic

PRE – 1/1/2006 PENSIONERS ARREARS CASE – LEGAL ADVICE BY LAW MINISTRY

Law Ministry never advised DOP & PW to implement qua petitioners

Ministry of Law & Justice

Department of Legal Affairs

Dy. No.1295/LS/2014

F. No. 38/77-A/09-P&PW (Vol.II)

D/o Pension & Pensioners Welfare has referred this file to examine on the following issues:

(i) The Curative Petition filed in respect of OA No. 655/2010WP(C) No. 1535/2012/SLP (c) No. 23055/2013/Review Petition No. 2492/13 has been dismissed by a Five Member Bench of the Hon’ble Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice of India. Therefore, we may implement the CAT/High-Court order in respect of petitioners only subject to acceptance of this option by the CAT, Principal Bench in the pending Contempt Petition. The implementation of CAT order will be subject to the clarification sought from the CAT and mentioned in Para 2 above.

(ii) We may implement the CAT order in respect of all pre-2006 pensioners subject to the final outcome of the pending SLP No. 36148-50/2013.

(iii) Although the Curative Petition has been dismissed. we may await the outcome of SLP No. 36148-50/2013 before deciding on the question of implementation of CAT order, subject to acceptance of this option by the CAT, Principal Bench in the pending Contempt Petition.

2. It is the case of Department of Pension that the order dated 1/11/2011 (Flag B) passed by CAT in OA No.655/2010 in the case of Central Government SAG Pensioners’ Association v/s UOI and Ors. had acquired its finality consequent to dismissal of Writ Petition (C) No.1535/2012 titled as Union of India and Anr. v/s Central Government SAG Pensioners’ Association and Ors. by the High Court vide its order dated 29/412013 (Flag F). dismissal of SLP No.23055/2013 by the Apex Court on 29/7/2013 (Flag G). dismissal of Review Petition No.2492/2013 by the Apex Court on 12/11/2013 and dismissal of Curative Petition (C) No.126/2013 by the Apex Court vide its order dated 30/4/2014 (Flag K). In these circumstances it is stated that order of tribunal passed in OA No.655/2010 in the case of Central Government SAG Pensioners’ Association (SUPRA) acquires its finality. It is also mentioned in the reference note that a Contempt Petition for implementation of CAT order dated 1/11/2011 is pending before the tribunal and is fixed for 15/5/2014.

3. In other matters wherein the Deprtment have filed SLPs before the Apex Court against the orders of the tribunal and the High Court and those SLPs are still pending and the Hon’ble Supreme Court had recorded the statement given by the Counsel of Respondents that ‘they shall not precipitate the matter by filing contempt proceedings either before the High Court or before the Tribunal’ in its order dated 19/11/2013 (Flag I). In these circumstances there is no possibility for filing any contempt against the Department.

4. Having exhausted all the possible available remedies. the Govt. is left with no other alternative but to implement the order passed by the CAT, which has been upheld by the highest Court of the land. In so far as the pending SLPs are concerned, there may not be any objection in awaiting the final outcome of the cases before taking a final decision.

May kindly see.

(R.S. Verrma)

Deputy Legal Adviser

08.05.2014.in/judis_cat/Doj_Qry.aspx

Why Windows 10 Is The Best Ever OS

Windows 10 preview has stepped in the market now and most fortunately you will be able to grab it in the 2015. It seems Microsoft is all set to capture the imagination of mobile and touch screen users and revitalizing its old features to present an innovative experience for the Windows lovers.

It is also very figurative that Microsoft has brought Windows 10 instead of Windows 9 after Windows 8. And if you are eager to note then here are the 5 reasons why Windows 10 will swing your mood pleasant as compiled by rediff.com

1. More than one desktop for multi-tasking

At times, one has to make use of multiple desktop screens to continue various tasks, to ease your efforts Windows 10 presents the Snap Assist UI that will help the users in grabbing applications from other desktops.

Windows 10 has emerged up with up desktop gaming concept where you can use wide array of programmes all at a time for long periods of time, surely this multi-tasking ability is one exclusive feature that you are going to love in Windows 10.

2. Great news for application developers

From now on, the users will have to intermingle with just a single Windows app store and not different stores for different devices.

One can modify user interface on the device that run on Windows 10, but can also use separate applications on them. You just need a single set of codes for targeting windows application on a personal computer to a full screen application on tablet or smartphone.

So, In comparison to Windows 8, this is a huge step towards advancement because in Windows 8 different apps had to be used for different versions: for instance start screen interface on Windows RT tablets and desktop environment for personal computers and Windows Phone smartphones.

3. Start Menu

What is the most common thing that troubled most of the windows 8 users was that it did not display the Start Menu.

And after a pretty long wait, Microsoft has decided to bring back the Start Menu. It helps the user to search almost everything on your PC; moreover the web results could be sought out here.

Users can check it out on the left hand and front of the user interface. When you click on the menu, it splits up in two columns. The first one includes app style icons and the other includes a traditional list.

4. Apt for businesses

The new Windows 10 is not only engaging the general users but it has its fascination among business too. It provides a platform where the enterprises from now on, can separate corporate data from personal data, thus providing them various levels of security.

This way it allows every businessman to keep his most important and secretive business information away from unwanted people.

5. Better command prompt

And it’s like a big bonanza time for the computer geeks, because Windows 10 improves the command prompt efficiency.

Command Prompt is a feature of Windows that provides an entry point for typing MS‑DOS commands and other computer commands. The most important thing to know is that by typing commands, you can perform tasks on your computer without using the Windows graphical interface.

If you are a computer expert or well acquainted with what to do with the 'Command Prompt', this is one of the finest features you will get in the new Windows 10.

National Postal Week 9th – 15th October, 2014

World Post Day is celebrated each year on 9th October, to commemorate the establishment of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in 1874 in the Swiss capital, Berne. It was declared as World Post Day by the UPU Congress held in Tokyo, Japan, in 1969 and since then, it is celebrated all over the world to highlight the importance of the postal services. 

India Post is celebrating National Postal Week from 9th to 15th October, 2014. The purpose of World Post Day is to create awareness about the role of the postal sector in the lives of people and business and its contribution to the social and economic development of the country. The celebration is aimed at generating a broader awareness about India Post’s role and activities among the public and media at national level. 

As part of National Postal Week, Department is celebrating Savings Bank day, Mail Day, Philately Day, Business Development Day and PLI Day to focus on various services provided. 

Department of Posts has been serving every part of the country for more than 150 years by providing mail , Speed Post and Parcel services, Post Office Savings Bank, Postal Life Insurance, Philatelic services by issue of definitive and special/ commemorative stamps. The Department has been providing ‘My Stamp’ service to public at large. ‘My Stamp’ is the brand name for the personalized sheets of Postage Stamps of India Post. The personalization is achieved by printing a thumb nail photograph of the customers of the images and logos of institutions, or images of art work, heritage buildings, famous tourist places, historical cities, wild life, other animals and birds etc, alongside the selected Commemorative Postage Stamps. 

Department is well aware about the changing needs of the customers and has introduced products like Speed Post, Express/Business Parcel, Business Post, ePost, Money Remittance services etc. Utilizing the vast network of Post Offices, India Post offers bill collection under ePayment and retails third party products from Post Offices. 

India Post is providing the service of reservation of railway tickets under Passenger Reservation System of Indian Railways. Around 300 Post Offices are providing this facility to the customers across India. 

India Post has set up Automated Mail Processing Centers in Delhi & Kolkata to create an Automated Mail grid. The Automated Mail Processing Center facilitates the processing of more than 55,000 piece of mail an hour. During the National Postal Week customers, especially children are encouraged to tour Automated Mail Processing Center. This unique venture of India Post is worth visit by the people. 

In tune with the emerging e-Commerce market, parcel product has been revamped & Cash on Delivery (CoD) facility has been introduced. State-of-the-art Parcel centres are also being set up across the country. Department is also developing Parcel Network to cater to the needs of e-Commerce companies. Delivery of parcels and Express mail is also planned to be mechanised in bigger cities for efficient & quicker delivery. 

India Post is in the process of inducting technology through an enterprise wide IT Project, at an approximate cost of Rs. 4909 crores,that will bring in electronic connectivity and capabilities across 1.5 lakhs Post Offices for seamless delivery of all mail & financial services. 

On the occasion of ‘World Post Day’ a seminar on ‘Building Business for India Post’ was organized by Department of Posts to deliberate on opportunities and road ahead for India Post. ‘My Stamp’ facility was also inaugurated by Member (Operations), Postal Services Board in Sansad Marg Head Post Office, New Delhi – 110001. Number of activities have been planned during National Postal Week across the country.

Source : PIB

World Post Day

        World Post Day ( by Bibhuprasad Mohapatra )

“Writing letter is also an art. I have to write letter and have to write only the truth in it, and have to pour love, if with this thought you sit down to write the letter, then you will definitely write a beautiful one.”- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Now it’s the era of email, SMS (Short Message Services) and MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service). Still the world of letters is unique. Gwalior born Hindi poet Girija Kumar Mathur (22^nd Aug 1919-10^th Jan 1994) wrote:

“Letter is like a personal newspaper at home

Support of the loner

It’s a sign of happiness

Love and friendship.”

“Meghdoot” of the greatest Sanskrit poet and dramatist Kalidasa (5^th century AD), Nobel laureate (Literature, 1907) Rudyard Kipling’s (1865-1936) poetry “The Overland Mail”, Nobel laureate (Literature, 1913) Rabindranath Tagore’s (1861-1941) play “The Post Office”, Indian writer Mulk Raj Anand’s (1905-2004) book “Story of the Indian Post Office”, American singer and actor Elvis Presley’s (1935-1977) song “Return to Sender” have illustrated the glory of letters.

These random and sudden thoughts are coming to us on “World Post Day”. The day is celebrated globally each year on 9th October, which marks the anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in 1874 in the Swiss capital, Bern.The Universal Postal Union was the start of global communications revolution, people could write to others all over the world.

It was declared as ‘World Post Day’ by the UPU Congress held in Tokyo, Japan, in 1969. Since then, World Post Day is celebrated all over the world to highlight the importance of the postal services.

The purpose of World Post Day is to raise awareness among common men about the role of the postal sector in people’s and businesses’ everyday lives and its contribution to the social and economic development of countries. The celebration encourages member countries to undertake programme activities aimed at generating a broader awareness of their Post’s role and activities among the public and media on a national scale.

Every year, above 150 countries celebrate World Post Day in a variety of ways. In certain countries, World Post Day is observed as a working holiday. Many Posts use the event to introduce or promote new postal products and services. Some Posts also use World Post Day to reward their employees for good service.

In many countries, philatelic exhibitions are organized and new stamps and date cancellation marks are issued. Other activities include the display of World Post Day posters in post offices and other public places, open days at post offices, mail centers and postal museums, the holding of conferences, seminars and workshops, as well as cultural, sport and other recreational activities. Many postal administrations issue special souvenirs such as T-shirts and badges.

With the support of massive network, the reach of the Postal department is in every corner of the world. The development of postal service took place rapidly in all the areas of the world since 1^st half of 20^th century. It seems to us that Post is nothing but “The other name of extreme trust” of the common people.

On this auspicious day, it is time to think and work as per the terms of Ex-Communication Minister:

“How we can serve the consumer best, this should be the highest duty of every Post and Telegraph worker. Frugality is essential but it should not be at the cost of work ability.” (3^rd May 1971, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna(1919-1989))

Again according to Gandhiji, “For us every consumer is an important person. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is the purpose of our work…We do not oblige him by doing his service. He obliges us by giving us the opportunity to serve.”

                     

With Regards

Sri Bibhuprasad Mohapatra

Department of Post, India

Email-padmacharan123@gmail.com
Mob-08270083653 

India Post celebrates National Postal Week ( 9-15 Oct.) and World Post Day (9th Oct.)

Home Ministry raises concern over use of Aadhaar as address proof

The Home Ministry has raised multiple concerns over using UIDAI number as an address proof in the DoT's proposed online verification system, saying the supporting data in Aadhaar may not be authentic or genuine. 

The Home Ministry said that 'Aadhaar' is strong on ensuring unique identity, "however, uniqueness of identity is not a necessary condition to ensure authenticity of identity or genuineness of other entries or records of Aadhaar number", sources said. 

The ministry has written to the Department of Telecom (DoT) sharing its view on accepting Aadhaar as valid proof of address for e-KYC (Know Your Customers) programme. 

The Home Ministry has raised concerns over supporting documents submitted by people as proof of identity and proof of address for getting a Aadhaar number, a source said. 

The DoT is working on proof of concept (e-KYC) to use Aadhaar number for online verification of people seeking mobile connections along with existing process of customer verification. 

Aadhaar card can be also issued to foreign nationals staying in the country, which has also been questioned by the Home Ministry as nationals of neighbouring country may attempt to use it to procure Indian identity documents for infiltrating their agents. 

The Home Ministry has said that unlike Aadhaar, other acceptable proof of address documents such as passport, driving licence do not have the status of universality and therefore "even higher levels of error in these documents may not translate into comparable volume of security concerns". 

It said that Intelligence Bureau is neither aware of back-end systems, e-processing and e-auditing existing in Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which issues Aadhaar, nor knows how data is transmitted between units of UIDAI and how data are stored. 

The Home Ministry has also raised concern on involvement of foreign vendors by UIDAI for storing data and has suggested audit of data security. 

Sources said that introducer system provision, under which people not having supporting documents as ID and address proof can also get Aadhaar number if he is introduced by a person owning a Aadhaar number, has been questioned by the Home Ministry.

Source : The Economic Times

VERY USEFUL COMPUTER TERMS

1.) GOOGLE : Global Organization Of Oriented Group Language Of Earth .

2.) YAHOO : Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle .

3.) WINDOW : Wide Interactive Network Development for Office work Solution

4.) COMPUTER : Common Oriented Machine Particularly United and used under Technical and Educational Research.

5.) VIRUS : Vital Information Resources Under Siege .

6.) UMTS : Universal Mobile Telecommunications System .

7.) AMOLED : Active-matrix organic light- emitting diode

8.) OLED : Organic light-emitting diode

9.) IMEI: International Mobile Equipment Identity .

10.) ESN: Electronic Serial Number .

11.) UPS: uninterruptible power supply .

12. HDMI: High-Definition Multimedia Interface

13.) VPN: virtual private network

14.)APN: Access Point Name

15.) SIM: Subscriber Identity Module

16.) LED: Light emitting diode.

17.) DLNA: Digital Living Network Alliance

18.) RAM: Random access memory.

19.) ROM: Read only memory.

20.) VGA: Video Graphics Array

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21.) QVGA: Quarter Video Graphics Array

22.) WVGA: Wide video graphics array.

23.) WXGA: Widescreen Extended Graphics Array

24.)USB: Universal serial Bus

25.) WLAN: Wireless Local Area Network

26.) PPI: Pixels Per Inch

27.) LCD: Liquid Crystal Display.

28.) HSDPA: High speed down-link packet access.

29.) HSUPA: High-Speed Uplink Packet Access

30.) HSPA: High Speed Packet Access

31.) GPRS: General Packet Radio Service

32.) EDGE: Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution

33.)NFC: Near field communication

34.) OTG: on-the-go

35.) S-LCD: Super Liquid Crystal Display

36.) O.S: Operating system.

37.) SNS: Social network service

38.) H.S: HOTSPOT

39.) P.O.I: point of interest

40.)GPS: Global Positioning System

41.)DVD: Digital Video Disk

42.)DTP: Desk top publishing.

43.) DNSE: Digital natural sound engine .

44.) OVI: Ohio Video Intranet

45.)CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access

46.) WCDMA: Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access

47.)GSM: Global System for Mobile Communications 

48.)WI-FI: Wireless Fidelity

49.) DIVX: Digital internet video access.

50.) .APK: authenticated public key.

51.) J2ME: java 2 micro edition

52.) SIS: installation source.

53.) DELL: Digital electronic link library.

54.)ACER: Acquisition Collaboration Experimentation Reflection

55.)RSS: Really simple syndication

56.) TFT: thin film transistor

57.) AMR: Adaptive Multi-Rate

58.) MPEG: moving pictures experts group

59.)IVRS: Interactive Voice Response System

60.) HP: Hewlett Packard

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KAVALI BRANCH - NELLORE Dn - A.P CIRCLE -05-10-2014

A Joint Biennial Branch Conference AIPEU GrC., AIPEU PM&MTS, AIPEU GDS (NFPE) of Kavali under Nellore Division - A.P Circle has been held on 05-10-2014 under the Presidentship of Com.John, President Gr.C., Kavali Branch.

Com.P.Pandurangarao, General Secretary, AIPEU GDS (NFPE), Com.Sk.Humayun, former All India President, P4 (CHQ), Com. K.Sudhakar, Assit Circle Secretary, AIPEU Gr.C, A.P Circle attended and addressed the meeting. CITU leaders and LIC Union representatives were also present and graced the meeting. NFPE leaders from Nellore Division and Guntur divison were also attended the conference.

One the eve of Diamond Jubilee celebrations of NFPTE/NFPE veteran leaders of NFPE represented from the Kavali Branch have been felicitated.

RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT ( 2005 )

RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT      ( Download )

Why RTI ?

•   To  promote transparency  &  accountability  in  the  working of every public authority

What is the date of enactment?

•   15.06.2005

When the act came  into force?

•   On 120th day of its enactment i.e. 12.10.2005

Why RTI act came  into force after a long period?

•   Since   every  public  authority  has   to  create  an   official   website and publish the particulars about its organisation, functions, duties.

•    Further  names of  the  PIO,    Appellate  Authorities  etc  should be published

Who is eligible to get an information?

•   Any Indian citizen can get information

How to make request for obtaining information?

•   Orally (assistance to be given  to reduce in writing,

•   Writing

•   Electronical form (Online)

In which language applicant can seek  information?

•   English, Hindi (or) Official  Language of the area

Is there any  prescribed format for seeking information?

•   No

•    But every public authority has  to publish a proforma of applicationin their website for the convenience of applicants

Should reasons for seeking information be furnished?

•   It is not required to furnish reason for seeking any  informationunder

RTIact

Information means

o Records

o Documents

o Memos

o E-mails

o Opinions

o Advices

o Press releases

o Circulars

o Orders

o Data material in any  electronic form

o    Any Information relating to any  private body  which can  be accessedby a public authority

Record

•   Documents, files,  manuscript,

•   Microfilm, fax,

•   Reproduction of film or images embodied in such  film,

•   Any other material produced by a computer or anelectronic device. Right to information

•   Inspection of works, documents & records,

•   take notes, extracts, certified copy of documents & records,

•   Take certified samples of materials,

•    Obtaining information in the form of diskettes, floppies,tapes, video cassettes  or  in   any   other  electronic mode  or  through  printouts where such   information is  stored in a  computer  or in  any   other device;

Various Fees

Fee  for seeking information	Rs 10/- per application
Fee  for copy of records per page	Rs 2/- for A4 / A3 size paper, if itis larger than A3, actual cost
Fee  for Samples / Models	Actual cost
In electronic form	Rs. 50/- per Diskettes / Floppy
Inspection of records	Free for first one hour & Rs. 5/- per hour or part thereoffor each subsequent hours
Modes  of payment	Cash against a proper receipt DD / Cheque / IPO  / Electronicmeans

The   above   fees   are  exempted  for  Citizens  Below   Poverty  Line  (Supporting documents should be furnished)

Time  limit for furnishing Information:

    30 days  from the date of receipt of application.

    48 hours if involves the life or liberty of a person.

    40 days  if involves the interests of a third party.

    If no  response is  given  by  the public authority  on  RTI application within the time limit, the same treated as deemedrefusal

Obligation & time limit for CAPIO  / other offices

Forward the application to concerned PIO  within 5 days  withintimation to the applicant

Proactive disclosures under RTI Act

    Every Public Authority must proactively disclose the following:

•    Particulars of the organization, its functions and  duties;

•    Procedure followed  in its decision making process

•    Norms set out for the discharge of its functions;

•   Rules, regulations, instructions,  manuals  and   records used by its employees for the discharge of its functions,

•    Arrangement for consultation with or representation by thepublic, in policy formulation/implementation;

•   Designate  Public  Information  Officer to  provide  information to applicants

•    Also to designate APIOs  at sub-divisional/district level

•    No bar on the number of such  PIOs/APIOs

•   Designate appellate authority for the first appeal within thepublic authority

Exemption from disclosures – Section 8(1)

a)  Information which would  prejudicially affect the sovereignty and integrity of

India

b)  Information which has  been  expressly forbidden by any  court

c)  Information  which  would   cause  a  breach  of  privilege  of parliament/state legislature

d)  Information relating  to commercial confidence, trade  secrets, thedisclosure which would  harm the competitive position of a third party

e)  Information available to a person in his fiduciary relationship.

f)   Information received in confidence from foreign govt.

g)  Information, the  disclosure of  which  would   endanger the  life  or physical safety of any  person

h)  Information which would  impede the process of investigation orapprehension

or prosecution of offenders;

i)   Cabinet papers including records of deliberations of the council  ofministers, secretaries and  other officers.

j)   Information which relates  to personal information, the disclosure ofwhich has  no  relationship to any  public activity or interest,  or whichwould  cause unwarranted invasion of the privacy of the individual

Exemption fromdisclosures –Section 8(2)

     Information comes  under official secrets act, 1923

Section 9

    Information  which  would   infringe the  copyright subsisting in  a person

Section 10  (Severability)

    Where a request for information is rejected vide  sections 8/9above, access may  be  provided to that  part of the recordwhich does  not contain  any    information   which   is  exempted   from   disclosure (provided that part can  besevered without causing any  damage to any  part thatcontains exempt information)

Section-11 (Third Party Information)

    CPIO  intends to disclose, shall give  a written notice to thirdparty within 5 days

     Third party to make representation within 10 days.

    CPIO  shall make a  decision keeping in  view  of thesubmission of third party

    However the  information may   be  disclosed  if  the  publicinterest outweighs the harm or injury to be caused to the thirdparty.

     If he prefer appeal, CPIO  has  to finalize based on the decisionof the

First AppellateAuthority

Appeals

If  the applicant is  not satisfied with the  information received or if no information is provided by the PA within the prescribed time limit, hecan  prefer appeals in following  two stages.

Stageof appeal	Towhom (AppellateAuthority) (AA)	Time  limit withinwhich appealshould bepreferred by the applicant	Time  limit for disposal of byAppellateAuthority
First (Internal)	DesignatedDepartmental Appellate Authority	30 days  fromthe date ofdecision of PIO	30 to 45 days
Second (External)	Central / StateInformationCommission (CIC/SIC)	90 days  fromthe date ofdecision ofFirst AA	No limit

Penalities

Public Authority is liable to a fine  of Rs 250/- per day,  subject to amaximum of Rs. 25,000/-  for

     Not accepting an application;

     Delaying information release without reasonable cause;

     Malafidely denying information;

     Knowingly giving  incomplete, incorrect or misleading information;

     Destroying information that has  been  requested; and

     Obstructing furnishing of information in any  manner.

SIC/CIC has  the power to impose penalty & recommend for disciplinary action

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