The Central Information Commission (CIC) has for the first time, amidst rising complaints with respect to arbitrary hearing of cases, commenced display of list of cases pending before each commissioner online .
As per Chief Information Commissioner Satyananda Mishra, cases pending before the Chief Information Commissioner as well as the Information Commissioner have been uploaded and other commissioners probably will follow suit. However, he stated that a time frame has not been set for the same.
There are about 22,000 cases pending before the CIC and nearly 2,500 cases get added each month.
The move was in consequence of an RTI application seeking information pertaining to status of a case filed a year back.
According to Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi this move by the CIC of public listing of all the cases that are pending will act as a self-regulatory check as well as restoring the citizens' faith in these institutions.
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