The appellant in the instant appeal has requested information regarding allotments issued by your good office (office of the respondent/Estate Officer) under rule 15(2)(b) of the Allocation rules, 2002 from 01/01/2011 till date.
The public body in its response submitted to the Commission stated that Appellant is demanding complete data along with documentary evidences including approval of the competent authority in each case regarding allotments under Rule 15(2)b of 2002 since 01.01.2011 without intimating any purpose or reason to the extent that why Appellant requires complete data / documents of thousand cases and what is his connectivity/ grievances with all these cases.
This Commission allowed the Appeal and directed the Director General, Estate Office, Islamabad to provide complete information to the Appellant, at the earliest but not later than 7 working days of the receipt of this Order, with intimation to this office.
The Respondent is also directed to take immediate steps to proactively share through the web site 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 ‘Information Desk’ category at the web site of the commission www.rti.gov.pk. The compliance report be submitted to this commission within 30 days of the receipt of this Order.