If any appeal or complaint is filed in the West Bengal Information Commission now, it will take about 24 years and one month to dispose of it. Keeping in view the current rate of disposal of appeals and pendency of cases by the Commission, a right to Information The (RTI) advocacy group made this claim in its report on Wednesday (October 11). Vigilant Citizens Organization, in its report analyzing the functioning of the Central Information Commission and State Information Commissions, said that 10 commissions would take a year or more to dispose of the appeal.
It will take 24 years and one month to solve a case
This report was published on the eve of the 18th anniversary of the Right to Information Act. The report said that the time taken to dispose of the appeal/complaint was calculated on the basis of average monthly disposal rate and pending cases in the commissions. The analysis shows that based on the current monthly disposal rate West Bengal It will take an estimated 24 years and one month for SIC to dispose of a case filed on July 1, 2023, and it will be disposed of in the year 2047.
There are no information commissioners in these states
It said that in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra SIC, the estimated time for disposal is more than four years and in Odisha and Arunachal Pradesh the time is more than two years. The report said that four State Information Commissions (Jharkhand, Telangana, Mizoram and Tripura) are completely inactive, as no new commissioner has been appointed in them. The group said that six commissions (Central Information Commission and SICs of Manipur, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Bihar and Punjab) are currently functioning without a head.