Responding to the information request of the Appellant pertaining to the “rules have been framed in terms Section 33C of NAB Ordinance 1999 in order to pay reward to member of public for rendering commendable services in detection, investigation and prosecution of any offence under NAB Ordinance 1999”, the Respondent, NAB submitted that “reward to informer is being awarded on merit in respect of case to case basis as per Rule 4 (e) of National Accountability Bureau (Recovery Reward) Rules, 2000”.
The representative of the Respondent also submitted before this commission that Rule 4 (e) of National Accountability Bureau (Recovery Reward) Rules, 2000 is not published on its web site.
This Commission has observed that information of public importance mentioned in Section 5 of the Act is not being published through the web site of federal public bodies. In fact, the Web sites of federal public bodies contain generic information and not specific information as required under Section 5 of the Act. This is despite the fact that Principal Officer of each public body was required to ensure proactive disclosure of information through web site within 6 months of the commencement of the Right of Access to Information Act, 2017.
The Respondent, NAB was directed to ensure that information/records mentioned in Section 5 of the Right of Access to Information Act, 2017, including Rule 4 (e) of National Accountability Bureau (Recovery Reward) Rules, 2000, is published on its web site 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 10 working days of the receipt of this Order.
The Respondent, NAB was directed to ensure accessibility of the information proactively published on its web site 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 compliance report to this effect using ‘Web accessibility checklist’. This checklist 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 at the earliest but not later than 10 working days of the receipt of this Order.