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The Central Information Commission (CIC) has ruled out making public authorities based outside Delhi compulsorily avail of video-conferencing in hearings of the Commission to avoid heavy expenses on tours.
A letter from the Commission dated June 22 addressed to Delhi-based Right to Information (RTI) activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal in response to the latter's letter on this issue, said the CIC was functioning in accordance with the RTI Act, 2005, and RTI Rules, 2012.
“In so far as issues pertaining to Public Authorities are concerned, you may take up the matter with those Public Authorities,” said the letter.
Agrawal, in his letter to the CIC, had made a plea for making it compulsory for all Commissioners to allow facility of video-conferencing for petitioners/ public-authorities based outside Delhi.
"It is a criminal waste of money of public authorities/ petitioners based outside Delhi for compelling them to come to New Delhi to attend to CIC hearings when certain Commissioner/s at CIC do not allow video-conferencing," Agrawal had said and pleaded that the CIC should ensure that all the Commissioners allow and encourage video-conferencing.
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