RTI DATA

siju wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 9:24 pm Sir,
the PIO has sent me another shameless reply.
He is deliberately trying to portray that the ambassador is a good for nothing fellow, who could not even provide a help desk software.
the reply by PIO is establishing the fact the so called help desk in Riyadh is actually crocodile tears of pimps of agents who exploit the destitute citizen knocking on the doors of the mission.
kindly direct the pio to spend 5 minutes and provide the information

Indian tax payers spend more than 60 Lakh rupees to maintain the Information Technology infrastructure of the embassy.
Embassy claims that adequate staff is employed to man the help desk
We spend more than 18 Crore rupees to pay for salaries of embassy staff from embassy budget.
in addition, we spend more than 40 Lakh rupees from Indian community welfare fund to employ staff.

Still the PIO failed to provide even simple information like.

2. How many staff are employed to handle each of the helplines.
3. Qualifications and number of years of service of each staff.
4. Details of the software used to manage the helplines.
5. List of Registers maintained by the helplines.
10. How many requests were received for food and how many of them are fulfilled.
11. How many requests were received for Accommodation and how many of them are fulfilled.
12. How many requests were received for repatriation/ evacuation arrangements to India/ flight tickets and how many of them are fulfilled.
13. How many requests were received for assistance to purchase flight tickets and how many of them are fulfilled.
14. How many requests were received for Medical Assistance and how many of them are fulfilled.
15. How many requests were received for Legal assistance and how many of them are fulfilled.
16. How many requests were registered in MADAD and how many are fulfilled.

this is purely his malafide intent to discredit the good officials of the mission.

the lame excuse stated by the PIO is not the truth and even if truth is not allowed as per RTI ACT.

Information cannot be denied under section 7(9). This provision only deals with the form in which information is to be supplied. (10/1/2005/CIC dated 25.02.06)
In the decision regarding CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION Complaint No. CIC/LS/C/2009/00322 dated 8-5-2009, The CIC has directed as follows. Sec 7(9) of the Act does not authorize a public authority to deny information. It simply allows the authority to provide the information in a form easy to access. We agree that providing the information on all responses to the public notice of the Board of Enquiry and Hearings, even if they number only 7000 as claimed by the DDA and more than 10,000 according to the complainant, in the form of certified copies will attract the provisions of Sec 7 (9) as averred by DDA. But this provision does not exempt disclosure of information, only adjustment of the form in which it is provided.