a

Number of request received by Department of Posts

366

b

Number of decision where application were not entitled to access the documents pursuant to the requests, the provisions of the Act under which these decisions were made and the number of times such provisions were invoked.

17 Cases

1.     MM&TS Division of Directorate               –In TWO cases ;

2.     Financial Services Division of Directorate– In ONE case;

3.     Chhatisgarh Postal Circle                          – In ONE case;

4.     Delhi Postal Circle                                      -- In ONE case;

5.     Gujarat Postal Circle                                 – In ONE case

6.     Kerala Postal Circle                                   – In SEVEN cases;

7.     Karnataka Postal Circle                             – In TWO cases;

8.     Rajasthan Postal Circle                              – In ONE case;

9.     West Bengal Postal Circle                          – In ONE case;

In all 17 case decision the applicant not entitle to access the information under section 8 of the RTI Act.

c

The number of appeals referred to Central Information Commission.

2

d

Details of disciplinary action taken against any officer in respect of administration of this act.

One official of Delhi Postal Circle was charge sheeted under Rule-16 of CCS(CCA) Rules-1964

e

Amount of charges collected by each public authority under this Act.

Rs.5,486.00

f

The details to indicate efforts made by the public authorities to administer and implement the spirit and intention of this act.

1.       All designated Central Public Information Officers (CPIOs) / Central Assistant Public Information Officers (CAPIOs)/Heads of Postal field formations of the Department of Posts have been suitably instructed through holding workshop, imparting training & by issuing necessary guidelines/instructions to display all important orders/instruction circulars/ events etc. on the website of the Department and update to make them more useful and accurate.

2.      List of CPIOs/CAPIOs placed on the website of the Department,

3.      Met the obligations listed in Section 4(1) of the Act by preparing a document containing 17 manuals which are also available on the website of the Department;

4.      Guidelines have been issued to augment these manuals;

1.        Postal field formation at Divisional and Circle levels have been instructed to prepare similar manuals for their respective units;

2.        The Government servants deployed in field formation coming into contact with Public have been sensitized on disposal of references on RTI Act by issuing simple literature etc.

g

Suitable suggestions for reforms, including those required for development, improvement, modernization, reform for the amendment of the Act or other legislation or common law or any other matter relevant for operationalisation the Right to access the information.

1.      If the requestor has asked information related to All India basis in a single request to any CPIO, it may kindly clarified, how correct and accurate information can be collected from all Postal Circle offices in the country  to enable to provide appropriate reply to the requestor.    

2.      Creation of Additional posts at various levels for exclusive purpose of handling RTI cases

3.      Provision of additional infrastructure to nodal offices in the form of furniture, computers internet connection etc.

4.      Development and Implementation of suitable software for processing RTI cases.

a

Number of request received by Department of Posts

843

b

Number of decision where application were not entitled to access the documents pursuant to the requests, the provisions of the Act under which these decisions were made and the number of times such provisions were invoked.

65

c

The number of appeals referred to Central Information Commission.

4

d

Details of disciplinary action taken against any officer in respect of administration of this act.

1

e

Amount of charges collected by each public authority under this Act.

Rs. 13773

f

The details to indicate efforts made by the public authorities to administer and implement the spirit and intention of this act.

All efforts are being made to ensure proper and prompt disposal of request made.

g

Suitable suggestions for reforms, including those required for development, improvement, modernization, reform for the amendment of the Act or other legislation or common law or any other matter relevant for operationalisation the Right to access the information.

The number of information per application needs to be quantified;

Annexure-I

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

Department of Posts

ANNUAL RETURN TO CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION FOR THE PERIOD ENDING 31^ST MARCH 2006

(Under Section 25 of the Right to Information Act)

Year

As on March 31 2006

S. No.

Public authority under the Ministry

No.of requests received

Decisions where applications for information rejected

Number of cases where disciplinary Action was taken against any officer in respect of administration of this Act.

Amount of charges collected.

1

2

3

4

No. of decisions

No. of times various provisiions were invoked

4a.

4b.

Section 8 (1)

Other Sections

(a)

(b)

( c)

(d)

(e)

(f)

(g)

(h)

(i)

(j)

9

11

24

Other

5

6

1

Dept. of Posts

1209

82

1

2

0

10

7

0

0

7

16

22

0

3

0

14

2

19259

FORM - III

Quarter wise analysis of requests for Information rejected in Department of Posts under the RTI Act, 2005

Section

Q I

Q II

Q III

Q IV

TOTAL

Section 8 (I) (a)

0

0

0

1

1