Appoint PIO under RTI, CIC directs Raj Bhavan

The Goa CIC has granted Adv. Rodrigues’s plea that the Goa Raj Bhavan forthwith appoint a Public Information Officer and also make the mandatory disclosures under Section 4 (1) of the RTI as required by law.

The Goa State Chief Information Commissioner Prashant Tendolkar has today allowed the complaint filed Adv Aires Rodrigues over the non-compliance of the Right to Information Act by the Goa Raj Bhavan. 

In the complaint filed under section 18 (1) (a) of the RTI Act  the complainant had drawn the attention of the Goa State Information Commission that the Goa Raj Bhavan despite being a “Public authority’ in terms of section 2 (h) of the RTI Act had not appointed a Public Information Officer (PIO) for members of the public to be able to seek information.

In his order today the Goa CIC has granted Rodrigues’s plea that the Goa Raj Bhavan  forthwith appoint a Public Information Officer and also make the mandatory disclosures under Section 4 (1) of the RTI as required by law.