STATE TIMES NEWS
SRINAGAR: In a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed regarding establishment of an online RTI request portal so that citizens can file online applications for collecting information from any Government department, a Division Bench of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court comprising Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Sindhu Sharma dispose of PIL with directions to Chief Secretary J&K to take a call on the representation of petitioners and to pass a speaking order on it, most expeditiously, preferably, within a period of three months from the date a copy of the order is produced before him.
DB further said that it will be open for petitioners to make a fresh comprehensive representation in line with representation already made so as to request the Chief Secretary for providing facility of online RTI Portal.
In the PIL, petitioners alleged that the Central Government has already requested all the States/Union Territory Governments to enable facilities so that citizens can file online applications for collecting information from various departments under RTI Act.
The petitioners have made various representations in this regard but no action has been taken and online RTI Portal facility is not being made available to citizens.