Disclosures of Annual Confidential Reports (ACR) comes under Official Secret Act

[jimmorrison]

A lot has been said about revenge through ACRs. The reason why ACRs become a tool of revenge, is they very confidentiality of them. If they are not confidential there is no room for revenge. So in the transitional phase of making ACRs confidential to publicly accessible, they are liable to be misused. To avoid the difficulty in this transitional phase the current ACRs should be kept confidential and the new ACRs should be made public.

Making the current ACRs public is also a breach of trust, in the sense that the officers who wrote the ACRs were guaranteed that they are not going to be made public.

So the new rules should be 'no more ACRs from a date' and 'confidentiality of existing ACRs maintained'. This will subside a lots of opposition to ACRs being made public.

[Abhinav Bohare]

"Treat the seed, fertilize the soil, dont mash the fruit"


I think the issues has now gone out of hand....

India and Indians have remain unfortunate and many a times casual while something is enacted.

Any Act, Constitution, Law etc is an example of the same...

We committ mistakes and thn we try to continue the same of behold the same for the sake of some kind of an "False My-ness"

We have been drafting mistakes, constituting it, and thn feel deserted or sufferrer of the same....

The question is not only of ACR but many other such Acts, rules and laws...

India has evolved and so has the world...The India we see today is in original form...Its a Integrated and assorted state....

So Our policy makers should accept it and change most of our acts and laws accordingly....

ACR rule has to be changed, from the begining to the change
Entire character ahd charter has to be changed....

Else what all of you are critizing or feeling would remain and things would remain imperfect...

And therefore I say

"Treat the seed, fertilize the soil, dont mash the fruit" (Self)
......Abhinav

[ramugarg]

hello rtis In my view adverse remarks are always communicated to employee. There is no solid reason why these ACRS TO be discloseD THEN. Disclosure may affect the cordial relations in the govt. offices. And the superiors have to remain always busy with the courts and cases. AND IT IS NEVER WRITTEN ADVERSE IN BEST/GOOD CASES. EMPLOYEES WITH EGO/KAMCHORE NATURE WILL ALWAYS USE IT IN A WRONG WAY RESULT WOULD BE ADVERSE AND THE OFFICERS START WRITTING EXTRA ORDINARY OR BEST TO AVOID LITIGATIONS. iT WILL BECOME PROBLEMETIC TO TAKE A WORK FROM SUCH EMPLOYEE. AND IN THE LONG RUN EFFICIENCY WILL SUFFER. tHIS IS THE ONLYweapon WITH THE EMPLOYEE OTHERWISE YOU KNOW WE LIVE IN DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY.

[narayanvarma]

Now i find that 2 CIC orders exempt ACR (of 8-3-07 and 23-01-07 and in other 2, ACR disclosure is allowed (of 28-02-07 and 26- 02-o7. hence i continue to remain confused.

[colnrkurup]

Irrespective of what is in the Official Secrets Acts or various Rulings on RTI , an officer should get an opportunity to see and acknowlege his ACR soon after its initiation. This give him an opportunity to know as to what his seniors think of him and give an opportunity make an effort to improve his weak areas . Further it prevent the Seniors from misusing their powers to write ACR. When they know that it has to be shown, the Initiating Officers andReviewing Officers will be forced behave and write only truth. One has to be too clean to write an adverse ACR or give a flase report. Intention of ACR should be an instrument to appraise the oficer his performance from time to time giving him adequate opportunity to improve his performance

[ganpat1956]

Here is the latest on Confidential Reports:

The appellant sought for copies of his Confidential Reports for the period from 1999. The CPIO , applying the provisions of Section 8(1) (j) declined to furnish the information and the AA also upheld the said decision.

In a number of Decisions, this Commission has taken the view that confidential reports are exempt from disclosure. Therefore, I uphold the decisions of the CPIO /AA and dismiss the appeal.

Decision No. 906/ICPB/2007 dated 17/09/2007 on Appeal from Mr. P. Kesava Murthy Vs Life Insurance Corporation of India

[colnrkurup]

ACR should be disclosed only to the concerned under normal rules; but not under RTI . When the person concerned has seen his ACR and signed it in acknowledgement,where is the question of asking for it under RTI . Anyway the ACR of a person cannot be placed under public domain.

[sngupta]

Dear forum friends,
I have studied so many rules regulations and statuary enactments. I want to express a bad experience that 80% of officers do not having knowledge of rules regulations. You may conduct a survey how many officers knows the full ACR form. What is needed to fill up in ACR`s. I am the person who recently passed the CA (inter) exam and you may my ACR where the column of knowledge of rules and regulations will show you only very good. The person who is having very less knowledge is also getting very good. So many points I may present in this regards and If the contract emploment will start in Govt. what will be scenerion we will see.
Maharshi Rajnish was in favour of tranparency in sexual life but I am a supporter of transparency in economic life.
"In my opinion every financial activity must be transparent and open"

[colnrkurup]

For obtaining the desired data the question need framing in a different way. Disclosure of contents of ACR and its disclosure under RTI is entirely different. If it is brought under RTI , a Class IV employee can ask for copy of the ACR of the Principal Secretary of his Department. Do you advice such disclosure. The aspects of showing the ACR to the concerned was examined many times by higher achelons scientifically. Even in Army it used to be shown when I joined. Later it was stopped expect the adverse remarks. When I left 20 years back not only it is shown; but one could walk into Army HQs and ask his relative performance and could be readily available in Computers. At that time, it was possible to know as to where one stand for promotions as per ACRs. I defenitely maintain that except the persons concerned others have no business to know the contents of ACRs of others

[sngupta]

Every action of public authority must be transparent and justified. East India Company is no more our Govt. So many persons trying to make Govt as East India Comany once again. I am ready to discuss any one who favour secrecy of ACR`s. For higher salaries, arbitrary working, differntial behaviour, using business sence, foreign visits, use of luxirious and many more every citizen is free to do his own business or profession having freedom for trade or employment under article 19 of constitution.
"Please do not allow the public post to use any one his own interest".