RTI Replies to have standard format

 

Following increasing complaints about incomplete and misleading replies to RTI queries, Greater Chennai Corporation has asked all departments, regions and zones to furnish RTI information in a prescribed format.

The Assistant Commissioner (G.A&P) V. Kasthuri sent a circular early this week to all heads of departments, regional deputy commissioners offices and the zonal officers in this regard. The new guidelines for providing replies to RTI queries are based on a communication by the personnel and administrative reforms department of the State Government.

More than 7,000 RTI queries are made to the Corporation every year. But, residents allege, that most of the replies were incomplete and misleading.