MARDAN
Majority of the heads of the government department are allegedly not ready to provide information to the applicant who tries to get information through the Right to Information Act 2013.
It may be noted that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf provincial government has enacted the Right to Information Act 2013 so that every citizen can easily gain information from the government departments.
The people appreciated this law of the provincial government. However, the majority of the applicants who want to get information through this act complain that the heads of the department are allegedly not ready to provide them information.
The complaint said that the head allegedly uses delaying tactics in providing the information or provides incomplete and unrelated information.
Some of the local journalists have applied through right to information Act 2013 to the Deputy Commissioner, ADC revenue, local government, Livestock and other departments of the district but the heads of the department allegedly used delaying tactics. A local journalist said that he has submitted an application through RTI in the Livestock office Mardan for information.
He added that the concerned officer allegedly started using delaying tactics. However later on he submitted a complaint in the information commission Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
He added that later on the livestock officer allegedly through different ways started pressuring him however when he did not come under pressure he allegedly started Jirgas on him to stop him from getting the information.
He added that later however after a long struggle he provided him some information. However, he added that the information was incomplete.
The applicants demanded the Chief Minister and Chief secretary Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to direct the heads of government departments of Mardan district to follow the RTI act 2013 and provide information to the applicants.
