PIO’s of Municipal Corporation asked to be careful while dealing with third party information
3 Nov, 2013While interacting with the PIOs from Municipal Corporations, the State Information Commissioner (SIC) of Punjab Parveen Kumar has suggested them to go through the RTI Act carefully. As per the SIC, many applications, which are dealt with by these PIOs, seek information which are of third party in nature and should not be entertained.
Till now, around 500 applications have been submitted this year, while 480 complaints have been lodged with the first appellate authority.