The appellant in the instant appeal requested the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to provide information on the total cost incurred in preparation and publication of “Deep Analytics Report: Anti-State Trends (PTM, Political Parties, Indian and Fake News Nexus) 2019-2021”, prepared by the Digital Media Wing?
The appellant also requested information on the persons/organizations engaged/contracted for preparation and publication of the aforementioned report, along with information on payments made to them?
This Commission allowed the appeal and directed Deputy Secretary (Coord), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to provide the information requested information with intimation to this office, at the earliest, but in any case, not later than 10 working days of the receipt of this Order.
The Respondent is also directed to take immediate steps to proactively share through the website all categories of information mentioned in Section 5 of the Right of Access to Information Act 2017 and submit the compliance report to the commission in the Template for the Compliance Report-Proactive Disclosure of Information under Section 5 of the Right of Access to Information Act 2017’. This template is available under the ‘Information Desk’ category at the website of the commission www.rti.gov.pk. The compliance report be submitted to this commission within 30 days of the receipt of this Order.
The Respondent is directed to ensure accessibility of the information proactively published on its website under Section 5 of the Right of Access to Information Act 2017 for all citizens, including the blind, low-vision, physically disabled, speech and hearing impaired and people with other disabilities and submit a compliance report to this effect using ‘Web accessibility checklist’. This checklist is available under the ‘Information Desk’ category at the website of the commission www.rti.gov.pk. The compliance report is submitted to this commission at the earliest but not later than 10 working days of the receipt of this Order.