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First citizen gets access to public record under RTI in KP
The much-trumpeted Right to Information (RTI) law has practically become operational in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the first citizen was allowed access to the public record by deputy commissioner of Nowshera.
Sources in the Civil Secretariat told The News on Tuesday that being first in the province, the case of giving access to the public record by the deputy commissioner was an example since the approval of the law by the provincial legislature on October 31.
The RTI is designed to give the public access to information in possession of government department and other public sector agencies and this was the first case to allow such an access to any applicant seeking information about any public property and record, the sources said.
“It may be possible that some other officials and department have also received such applications, but the Nowshera case is the first one that has come to the notice of the high-ups,” they maintained.
The sources said Nowshera, being native town of Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, was sensitive in many respects, including the requests for such kind of information and access to public records, and many such cases might arise in the future.
According to the pro-forma, seeking information from the deputy commission Nowshera (copy available with The News), the lucky applicant, Zahid Abdullah, son of Amir Abdullah, who got access to information, is permanent resident of Main Nazim-ud-Din Road F-11 Islamabad.
He had requested the deputy commissioner Nowshera to provide him the information as to how many vehicles were in his (deputy commissioner) use.
He also sought the certified copy of the log-book of each vehicle under the use of the deputy commissioner from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013.
The deputy commissioner office received the application on January 2 and the very next day (January 3) the deputy commissioner directed his staff to ask the applicant to collect the information he had asked for.
The deputy commissioner Nowshera’s staff told this scribe that they had already collected and lined up all relevant records regarding the lone vehicle in use of the deputy commissioner that would be provided to the applicant.
Sources in the Civil Secretariat, however, said that all applicants were not as lucky as Zahid Abdullah because they were still scrambling to get information they needed.
Sighting one such example, they said a few days ago an applicant approached one of the departments to get access to the information about an official vehicle (A-9122 Peshawar), which is the property of the Provincial Assembly Secretariat, but it has been under the use of deputy commissioner Swabi, the native town of speaker of the provincial assembly.
First citizen gets access to public record under RTI in KP - thenews.com.pk
@Jazzbot @RescueRanger @Aeronaut @pkuser2k12 @A.Rafay more access, more transparency, more accountability !
The much-trumpeted Right to Information (RTI) law has practically become operational in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the first citizen was allowed access to the public record by deputy commissioner of Nowshera.
Sources in the Civil Secretariat told The News on Tuesday that being first in the province, the case of giving access to the public record by the deputy commissioner was an example since the approval of the law by the provincial legislature on October 31.
The RTI is designed to give the public access to information in possession of government department and other public sector agencies and this was the first case to allow such an access to any applicant seeking information about any public property and record, the sources said.
“It may be possible that some other officials and department have also received such applications, but the Nowshera case is the first one that has come to the notice of the high-ups,” they maintained.
The sources said Nowshera, being native town of Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, was sensitive in many respects, including the requests for such kind of information and access to public records, and many such cases might arise in the future.
According to the pro-forma, seeking information from the deputy commission Nowshera (copy available with The News), the lucky applicant, Zahid Abdullah, son of Amir Abdullah, who got access to information, is permanent resident of Main Nazim-ud-Din Road F-11 Islamabad.
He had requested the deputy commissioner Nowshera to provide him the information as to how many vehicles were in his (deputy commissioner) use.
He also sought the certified copy of the log-book of each vehicle under the use of the deputy commissioner from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013.
The deputy commissioner office received the application on January 2 and the very next day (January 3) the deputy commissioner directed his staff to ask the applicant to collect the information he had asked for.
The deputy commissioner Nowshera’s staff told this scribe that they had already collected and lined up all relevant records regarding the lone vehicle in use of the deputy commissioner that would be provided to the applicant.
Sources in the Civil Secretariat, however, said that all applicants were not as lucky as Zahid Abdullah because they were still scrambling to get information they needed.
Sighting one such example, they said a few days ago an applicant approached one of the departments to get access to the information about an official vehicle (A-9122 Peshawar), which is the property of the Provincial Assembly Secretariat, but it has been under the use of deputy commissioner Swabi, the native town of speaker of the provincial assembly.
First citizen gets access to public record under RTI in KP - thenews.com.pk
@Jazzbot @RescueRanger @Aeronaut @pkuser2k12 @A.Rafay more access, more transparency, more accountability !
