Thursday 9 October 2014

OROP - File Under Submission; But the Prime Minister says...



Everywhere in Haryana, the Hon'ble Prime Minister says "Congresswalon ne 60 saal OROP nahin diya, lekin mere sarkar ne 60 din mein de diya"

The truth, Hon'ble Prime Minister is given below 
by Ministry of Defence 


The Request for Information (DEXSW/R/2014/60221)

Ref No: SYS/RTI/OROP/DESW                                     21st September 2014              
To,

Under Secretary (Pension/Policy) & CPIO,
Shri Prem Prakash,
Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare,
Ministry of Defence,
Room No. 220A, ‘B’ Wing, Sena Bhawan,
New Delhi – 110 011
Ph No. 011-23012973


Sub: Request for information under RTI Act, 2005

Sir,
           Please provide information on file notings etc on action taken for compliance with orders of the Honourable Prime Minister and the Honourable Raksha Mantri as well as the assurances to the Respected Parliament made by the Honourable RM and Honourable  RRM on One Rank One Pension.

2.       Information is as described in Section 2 (f) of the RTI Act, 2005 i.e. information means any material in any form, including records, documents, memos, e-mails, opinions, advices, press releases, circulars, orders, logbooks, contracts, reports, papers, samples, models, data material held in any electronic form and information relating to any private body which can be accessed by a public authority under any other law for the time being in force.

3.       Sections 8, 9 or 10 of the RTI Act, 2005 may also be referred while processing this request for information.


4.       Requirement to be physically present in MoD to search for and point out the information required may be exempted unless the information that is sought to be provided will far exceed the cost of travel from and return to Bangalore as well as other expenses.

5.       Please intimate the additional amount to be deposited @ Rs 2 per photocopied page of information.
Yours faithfully,
Sd/-----------------
Encl: as above

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RTIOnline Status/Reply dated 08.10.2014

The relevant file is not available with the CPIO as the same is under submission.

CPIO: Prem Prakash US (Pen/Pol) DESW, MoD

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Online RTI First Appeal (DEXSW/A/2014/60049) dated 08.10.2014 Details

Public Authority Details :-

* Public Authority Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare

* Ground For Appeal Provided Incomplete, Misleading or False Information

* CPIO of Public Authority approached Nodal Officer
CPIO's Order/Decision Number Details not provided

* CPIO's Order/Decision Date
(Description of Information sought (upto 500 characters)

* Prayer or Relief Sought

Sir,

I am aggrieved by the response of the CPIO dated 8.10.2014 (attached as supporting document) in response to my request dated 21.9.2014 that information cannot be provided because the file is under submission. This is not one of the grounds for not providing information under Section 7 of the RTI Act, 2005.

I therefore request that the information be provided or a categorical refusal and the grounds vide Section 7 (8) thereof be provided to me within the time frame provided by the RTI Act, 2005.

It appears that CPIO is disposing off my request for information summarily stating the file is under submission is contravening Section 18 Sub-sections (b), (c), (e) and (f).

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2 comments:

  1. Bjp had done it within two months as against congress which could not do it in 60 years. However doing it, bjp could not issue order within six months . No body knows how many exservicemen have passed away within such long period cursing the delayed system of the govt. The soldiers and exservicemen of neighbouring countries are perhaps enjoying our poor condition in the society where an exservicemen'd pension is less than an unskilled labour with the guarantee of lifelong unemployment.

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  2. I appreciate efforts of author and also thankful the latest on the subject.One may think delay in action as things are in process which requires final touch but words spoken by PM carry weight affecting result in positive at last..

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