STATE TIMES NEWS
NEW DELHI: Newly appointed Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of India, R.K Mathur on Wednesday called on Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Dr Jitendra Singh, after joining his new assignment.
Pertinent to mention that Mathur was sworn in as CIC on 4th of this month at Rashtrapati Bhawan in the presence of President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
During an interaction, Dr Jitendra expressed the need to devise methods for expediting the disposal of RTI applications in order to reduce pendency and at the same time, also find out ways to curtail the filing of avoidable RTI applications.
He said, during the last one and a half year of the Modi Government, a lot much of information about the working and the decisions taken in different central ministries has already been put on the website and is in public domain, which should also be a consideration while looking at this issue.
Reiterating the Modi Government’s resolve to make governance citizen-centric and at the same time also transparent, Dr Singh said DoPT and Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances have, in the last few months, introduced several new measures including e-portals to achieve this objective.
Dr Jitendra, while congratulating Mathur for his selection as CIC, wished him a fruitful and productive tenure and assured of full cooperation on behalf of the department.
In turn, Mathur assured the minister that he will try to perform to the best of his ability and live up to the huge expectation which the nation has from the institution of Central Information Commission.
