State and Central Government SC/ST District co-ordination committee Appealed CIC to take action to publish the reservation rosters in Central and State Goverment Departmental websites

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Shri A.Sundararaman in his letter Addressed to Central Information Commission has appealed to take action for publishing the reservation rosters in the Central and state government websites to maintain transparency .  The copy of the letter written by him is published here.  It is proposed by the committee to send a similar appeal to Secretary Dept of Posts and National SC/ST and Backward commission.

From: A.Sundararaman
Dt co-ordinator
State and Central Government SC/ST
Employees Dt co-ordination committee.
Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Illam,
23,Chidambaram Nagar,
Tamilnadu,
Pudukottai-622 001.

TO:- The Chief Information Commissioner
August Kranti Bhavan,
Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi - 110 066
Sub:-Publishing of Rosters in the Department  Website


Respected Sir,

This is regarding publishing information on reservation rosters in departmental websites. The department of posts maintaining circle and regional level websites for the benefit of general public as well as staff working in the department. The Right to information act is stipulated that all public authority maintaining all its records shall be made available in the websites.
This Association is observed that reservation roster being a record maintained at various level of the department to monitor the percentage of reservation given to SC/ST/OBC and PH in various cadres’ appointment and promotion is not published in the websites almost all websites of central and state government websites.

To promote the transparency and accountability in maintaining the rosters ,We request you to take necessary action in publishing the reservation rosters maintained by various authorities in the Departmental websites so as to bring the transparency in implementation reservation orders properly and in it is maintained in diligent manner as and when any recruitment made and promotion resorted to.

Since the act came into effect for more than 5 years the various departments of central and state governments are yet to publish the reservation rosters in the their websites. It is bring to your Kind notice that as per the following sections of RTI act-2005,

4(1) (b)(V) “Every public authority shall-Publish with in one hundred and twenty days from the enactment of this act, the rules, regulations ,instructions ,manuals and records, held by it or under its control or used by its employees for discharging its functions”.

4(2) “It shall be a constant Endeavour of every public authority to take steps in accordance with requirements of clause (b) of sub section (1) to provide as much information suo motu to the public at regular intervals through various means of communication, including internet, so that the public have minimum resort to the use of this Act to obtain information.

4( 3) for this purposes of sub section (1) ,every information shall be disseminated widely and in such form and manner which is easily accessible to the public.

We hope that CIC will prevail upon the various departments of central and state government and public sector undertaking to take sincere effort to publish the reservation rosters in all websites maintained by it as per the above RTI act.

Date:23.09.2010
Place:Pudukottai-622 001.      

Yours faithfully
Sd------------
(A.Sundararaman)