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Jaipur: D B Gupta, who completed three-year term as chief information commissioner (CIC) on Thursday, said there was huge pendency of cases which has been cleared during his tenure. The cases have been pending since 2007 under Right to Information (RTI).
The cases reach Rajasthan State Information Commission when the applicant do not get the satisfactory reply on the information he or she seeks from the department concerned.
It was the last day of Gupta as CIC. He said that in the past, 56,484 cases were pending since 2007, which the commission has taken on priority and in the last three years, 48,749 cases have been disposed of and at present no case is pending till 2022.
“Now, all the cases up to 2022 have been cleared except for the cases filed in 2023 which are about 7,000 in numbers,” said, Gupta.
While addressing newspersons, Gupta said, “We organised special courts to clear the pendency. Separate special courts were organised for cases related to Jaipur Development Authority, municipal bodies and Shiksha Sankul. Besides, separate special courts were organised for hearing the cases division wise.”
In the past three years, innovations have been made for quick disposal of pending cases and ease in filing RTI. Out of which, special courts, speed post, online application, online hearing and in view of the shortage of courts, two court rooms have also been constructed.
An innovation has been made to send notices, documents and decisions of hearing of appeals through speed post from February 2022. The step has resolved the complaint of not getting the notice on time. Gupta said that earlier the appellants who live in remote areas had to face difficulty in coming to the office, but from April 2022, the system of filing the second appeal has been made online, due to which their registration, notice of hearing date and all the proceedings till the final decision are being done online.
The facility of online hearing has been started as a pilot project in three courts under which complainants can choose either hybrid mode which allows in-person hearing or online hearing for the hearing.
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The cases reach Rajasthan State Information Commission when the applicant do not get the satisfactory reply on the information he or she seeks from the department concerned.
It was the last day of Gupta as CIC. He said that in the past, 56,484 cases were pending since 2007, which the commission has taken on priority and in the last three years, 48,749 cases have been disposed of and at present no case is pending till 2022.
“Now, all the cases up to 2022 have been cleared except for the cases filed in 2023 which are about 7,000 in numbers,” said, Gupta.
While addressing newspersons, Gupta said, “We organised special courts to clear the pendency. Separate special courts were organised for cases related to Jaipur Development Authority, municipal bodies and Shiksha Sankul. Besides, separate special courts were organised for hearing the cases division wise.”
In the past three years, innovations have been made for quick disposal of pending cases and ease in filing RTI. Out of which, special courts, speed post, online application, online hearing and in view of the shortage of courts, two court rooms have also been constructed.
An innovation has been made to send notices, documents and decisions of hearing of appeals through speed post from February 2022. The step has resolved the complaint of not getting the notice on time. Gupta said that earlier the appellants who live in remote areas had to face difficulty in coming to the office, but from April 2022, the system of filing the second appeal has been made online, due to which their registration, notice of hearing date and all the proceedings till the final decision are being done online.
The facility of online hearing has been started as a pilot project in three courts under which complainants can choose either hybrid mode which allows in-person hearing or online hearing for the hearing.
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