By IANS
Agra : There was an urgent need to train government officials to ensure that the Right to Information (RTI) Act was used effectively for the benefit of people, Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) Wajahat Habibullah said here Saturday.
“In Uttar Pradesh we get lots of complaints (from applicants) but fewer appeals. The complaints usually relate to government officials either denying information under one pretext or the other or not responding to their applications,” he told mediapersons after a public interaction at the Divisional Commissioner’s office.
Representatives of various organisations and chambers of commerce and industry who met the CIC complained of the unhelpful attitude of the government officials who, they said, preferred to avoid giving out required information.
Habibullah said a meeting of state information officers was convened in New Delhi to discuss how the RTI Act can be more effectively implemented and how various problems relating to its usage can be resolved.