CHANDIGARH: A section of the Right To Information (RTI) Act activists of Punjab on Monday staged a sit-in outside the state information commission here and accused chief information commissioner RI Singh of derailing the RTI Act. The genesis of this ongoing tussle, which is headed for a flash point, lies in ...

FATEHGARH SAHIB: The number of complaints and appeals received by the Punjab State Information Commission increased nearly five-fold in three years. In 2006, the Commission received 1,083 pleas, while the figure rose to 5,098 in 2009. In all, 16,713 complaints and appeals have been filed in the past five years. Sources said ...

CHANDIGARH: Congress MLA Sukhpal Khaira has accused former SGPC chief Bibi Jagir Kaur of encroaching upon prime land worth Rs 50 crore belonging to a nagar panchayat for the unauthorized construction of a school. The nagar panchayat of Begowal in Kapurthala district had on August 8, 2009, issued a notice to ...

PATIALA: Since its inception in 2005, the Punjab State Information Commission has received 12,955 complaints under the RTI Act and disposed of 11,654 of them. While fine has been imposed in connection with 136 complaints, information seekers have been awarded compensation in 250 cases. In most of these cases, the complaints ...

JALANDHAR: The Punjab State Information Commission has itself violated the Right to Information (RTI) Act by not providing information about government employees penalized by State Information Commission Ravi Singh in 14 cases about five months ago. Hindustan Times had sought information about the names and designation of employees penalized by Ravi ...

CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has filed a petition in Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking quashing of orders by the Punjab State Information Commission to provide information to three persons. Institutions managed by SGPC are not financed by the government and therefore, do not fall within the domain ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab State Information Commission has imposed a penalty of Rs 5,000 on a tehsildar for her lack­ adaisical approach in providing information. Information Commissioner P.P.S. Gill ordered then Patiala tehsildar Vinay Sharma, now posted at Amritsar, to deposit Rs 5,000 within a week. "The failure in processing and serving the ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab State Information Commission has dismissed Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee's review applications, challenging the Commission's jurisdiction to declare it a public authority under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Chief Information Commissioner R.I. Singh, in his order, said the panel did not have power to review its own orders. "The ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab State Information Commission has directed the Punjab and Haryana High Court to provide information about a three­ Judge sub-committee's decision on the representation of Additional District and Sessions Judge J.S. Khushdil regarding the determination of his seniority. A Division Bench of Chief Information Commissioner R.I. Singh and State ...

JALANDHAR: Ruling that MLAs are not covered directly under the Right to Information Act (RTI), the Punjab State Information Commission stated on Friday that information seekers could obtain information about their respective MLA from the Legislative Assembly. Chief Information Commissioner Ramesh Inder Singh gave this judgment in his five-page order, stating ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab IAS Officers' Association on Tuesday announced that the officers would soon be volunteering the disclosure of their property details on a web page. The Punjab State Information Commission had on Monday directed Public Information Officers of the Department of Personnel to "provide copies of property returns of IAS ...