Though this recommendation, if it is accepted can solve the problem of initial request to a large extend facilitating an application by E-mail, I was expecting only such type of decision ("throwing a bone to a barking dog to keep it mum") from a Parliamentary Committee. They are normally bound to follow a path of least resistance. No one other than the Finance Ministry can have any objection. But this is not what we were wanting from the Parliamentary Committe. If the Committee has shelved other vital aspects of fixing accountability like time-frame to the Commission the same way the
PIO is made accountable, interpretation of the term "shall impose" in Section 20(2), cutting down more Departments from Second schedule, making the State Government more accountable in facilitating the functioning of the State Information Commissions,etc., etc., it will be another catastrophe. Let us wait for the final recommendation.