Polytechnic comes under scanner for RTI imbroglio TNN | Feb 22, 2012, 02.29AM IST

Polytechnic comes under scanner for RTI imbroglio TNN | Feb 22, 2012, 02.29AM IST http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/11983931.cms LUCKNOW: A government polytechnic not following the order of the State Information Commission, which was about the recovery of the fine, from the principal of the institute, paints a grim picture about implementation of RTI in Uttar Pradesh. The office of the principal of Gobind Ballabh Pant Polytechnic, Mohan Road, Lucknow issued two letters under the same dispatch numbers, regarding the recovery of fine which was slapped on a former principal of the institute by the State Information Commission in April 2009. While, one of the letters, issued by the principal's office to the cashier, directed for the recovery of the fine, from the salary of AK Bajpai, the then principal of the institute, by November 2011, another letter, issued under the same dispatch, has directed for the recovery of the fine by December 2011. The two letters also bear the same date, November 26, 2011. The fine was imposed on the polytechnic, under the social welfare department, after it did not provide the information sought by RTI applicant Urvashi Sharma in 2007. A fine of Rs 25,000 was slapped on the then principal of the institute, for failing to provide information on time. The applicant did not get the desired information, even five years after she made an application under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The commission slapped the fine and disposed of the matter in April 2009. However, it was another RTI query, regarding the letters, issued by the polytechnic, all through this period, which brought out the anomaly to the fore. The polytechnic provided the copies of two letters issued under the same dispatch number, and on the same date. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/11983931.cms