Director General, Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency was directed to provide information about its total sanction strength, list of the officials hired on contract, Daily wages, or for project since Jan 2016 till date along with the certified copy of their selection criteria, their monthly salary, and current status of the job, list of the all Pak-EPA employees along with their full name, date of appointment, domicile and mode of appointment and certified copies of BO/NIS forms for current budget for FY-2020-21 submitted to finance division.
This commission is of the view that a public body cannot deny access to records/information because parts of records/information of the requested information fall within the scope of exceptions mentioned in Section 16 of the Act. Under Section 16 (1) (i) of the Act, federal public bodies are required to sever part/information which comes within the scope of the exceptions and the rest should be made available to the applicants.
The commission held that while providing the requested information, personal information such as health condition, bank account numbers, phone numbers, addresses and CNICs details can be withheld.