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Originally Posted by sagginyou  Dear if u count who all are non-govt persons who pay income tax.,..then u can count them on fingers...
it may include several high profile RTI activists too,...who by their non-sensical questions splurge lots of public money by asking all sorts of stupid questions for which every govt office waste a substantial amount of time and resource....
i can quote some applications ..
1. list of the restricted holidays availed by the govt officers in every department.....(think of the volume as it is an openended RTI application...so all govt offices will need to answer this..) the poor RTI activist pay only 10 rs as fee but how much govt is spending on sending this marvellous peace of question paper to all its subordinate offices....just brother think on this aspect too... |
Sagginyou sir,
It is true that all Govt./PSU employees pay Income tax correctly and most of Non-govt. persons pay less tax as compared to their income or donot pay tax, they take help of tax consultants to reduce the tax.
But, if the information is asked by some citizen and it is the right of the citizen to know that what Public Authorities are doing. It may be volumes, but the applicant is paying for this information.
If the department is not knowing the holidays and leave details of their staff taken, then where is the administration?
Assume a situation that same question had been asked by some Public representative in Parliment, then could you have told the same answer to them? You never..
So, when you cannot deny any information to parliement, you cannot denay to citizen. This is the charming of
RTI Act, 2005.
Sir, beaing a public servants we have to think citizen as the salary providers for govt., semi-govt., psu employees.
rakatkam.