RTI Act 2005 gives citizens a right to get information from public authorities. However petitions filed against authorities are not well attended. The illiterate and the poor people get little remedy from RTI Commission because of its snail pace and also by the inadequacy of the penal action against the defaulters.
It is hoped that the e-filing of RTI will facilitate online RTI applications. Nevertheless, the pathetic condition is that the already computerised establishments like State Treasury, KSFE Ltd, and others still run with minimum efficiency. The argument is that the power supply, the essential requirement for computerisation, is intermittent in the State and the back-up storages provided are of poor quality to keep the computers on for hours. When computers are off, the staff will soon sit idle and the clients have to wait for hours for their job done.
And I think the RTI, after computerisation would not be free from this bottle neck. The net result is: online RTI redrassal would take more time.
K A Solaman
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