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Originally Posted by colnrkurup  Once bitten, twice shy. This is too sensitive a topic to pass any comment as most of the netizens on RTI including me are government servants, serving or retired. Any adverse comment against government servants, irrespective of the hard realities are likely to invite wrath of all Activists. Still, can't we think of the present cituation where 80% of the CIC's capacity is utlised by government servants who are not likely to exceed 5% on issues concerning their service matters.Is no other government machinary available to them to resolve such problem ? Whatever little knowledge I have on service rules, the system has a built in scope for redressal of grievences. A honest and impartial comment on the issue is solicited. |
colnrkurup, you hit the nail on the head !
Because there is no quick, transparent and effective mechanism of grievance redressal for Govt. employees (serving and retired), they have no choice but to resort to
RTI. Even if a employee writes a letter to his pwn department, there is no answer...what does he do then ?
Since June 2007, I have tried to read most of the decisions of the
CIC, since I store the important one's for future reference on my hard disk, duly cataloged. By reading the facts of the case and the type of information asked for, one can very easily judge whether the "employee" or "ex employee" has been unduly victimised/harassed for something that he could have done in the past. Maybe he tried to highlight some corruption or highlight something irregular in the department...those are the employees who have to resort to
RTI.
There are very few grievance related cases (at least since June 2007) wherein the matter has gone to the
CIC when it did not deserve to do so or it could be termed as "frivilous".
But it is a fact that Government employees are the biggest users of
RTI, whether in the Centre or in the States.