Mr. Muktesh Chander IPS

Mr. Muktesh Chander joined Indian Police Service in 1988 and has remained posted to several

places including DIG Goa and Addl. Commissioner of Police, Crime, and Traffic Delhi and IG

Daman Diu. He has served as Centre Director Cyber Division and National Critical Information

Infrastructure Protection Centre in NTRO under Prime Ministers’ Office. He was specially

selected as United Nation Police Observer and has monitored, trained and advised police in

Bosnia and Herzegovina in Europe for 1 year.

He has been awarded President’s Police Medal for meritorious service, President’s Police

Medal for distinguished service, Police Medal for Hard Duty, UN Service Medal and 50th

Anniversary of Independence Medal. He has written a number of articles on Cyber Crime and

related topics, which have been published in various prestigious journals and newspapers. He is

a resource person for premier institutes in India. He was member secretary of the Joint Working

Group which formulated “Guidelines for Protection of National Critical Information

Infrastructure”.

He graduated in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Delhi University. Mr.

Muktesh Chander also holds a law degree from Delhi University, diploma in Human Resource

Management, Diploma in Cyber Laws and Masters Degree in Criminology & Forensic Science

and has submitted his Ph.D. thesis in Information Security Management to I.I.T., Delhi. He has

also done Hostage Negotiation course at Louisiana State Police Academy, USA and Law

Enforcement Executive Development Course with FBI, Los Angeles, USA.

Apart from this Mr. Muktesh Chander holds a license of Amateur Radio. He is also life member

of Amateur Radio Society of India. During his spare time he plays on flute and mouth organ and

listens to classical and semi classical music.

Complaints of non-compliance of CIC decisions - suggestion

To,

Chief Information Commissioner

Central Information Commission,

August Kranti Bhavan, Bhikaji Cama Place,

New Delhi - 110 066

Email: s.mishra@nic.in

Hon’ble Sir,

Subject: Complaints of non-compliance of CIC decisions - suggestion

It is witnessed that large number of PIOs and FAAs do not comply with orders of CIC and appellants are required to file complaints u/s 18 for getting decisions operationalised, after having gone through long process of getting decision from CIC and waiting for one to three years.

CIC does not give priority to such complaints of non-compliance and are queued with other complaints/appeals, which again entail delay of one to three years. Thus by the time some action is taken there is horrible delay of nearly 5-7 years from filing RTI application. Mostly ICs beg of PIO/FAA to comply with its orders and hardly any penalty is imposed or disciplinary action recommended. This leads to mockery of ICs and their orders.

I suggest that at least, CIC should decide to give such complaints of non-compliance priority and should be decided in maximum three months of its receipt. Such complaints are different from normal first-time complaints or appeals, since appellant has already gone through entire process of obtaining decision of IC. Such complaints deserve to be separately lined up.

Secondly, ICs must impose penalty and recommend disciplinary action in case of non-compliance. This will give some credibility and weightage to ICs’ orders.

I appreciate your very balanced, well reasoned decisions and some of them are landmarks in the history of RTI. I am sure you would consider my above suggestion positively in the interest of RTI.

Yours faithfully,

KAVITA

झूठे इतिहास लिखकर,
विजेता बन बैठे तुम,
पाखंड फैलाकर,
सत्ताधारी बन बैठे तुम,
और हमें नीच बुलाते हो...
खेत-खलियान हड़पकर,
धनवान बन बैठे तुम,
भुखमरी फैलाकर,
सभ्यवान बन बैठे तुम,
और हमें अछूत बुलाते हो...
महिलाओं को देव-दासी बनाकर,
देवता बन बैठे तुम,
दहेज़-प्रथा फैलाकर,
संस्कृतिवान बन बैठे तुम,
और हमें समाज-कंटक बुलाते हो...
लोगों को जात-पात में बांटकर,
मानवीय-प्रेरक बन बैठे तुम,
साम्प्रदायिकता फैलाकर,
शांति-दूत बन बैठे तुम,
और हमें आतंककारी बुलाते हो...
मंदिरों के रूप में दूकान बनाकर,
पुजारी बन बैठे तुम,
चारों तरफ दुर्गन्ध फैलाकर,
मठाधीश बन बैठे तुम,
और हमें अश्लील बुलाते हो...
एकलव्य का अंगूठा काटकर,
मेरीटवान बन बैठे तुम,
अंधविश्वास फैलाकर,
ज्ञानी बन बैठे तुम,
और हमें मूर्ख बुलाते हो...
काली कमाई से धन जुटाकर,
परोपकारी बन बैठे तुम,
उपोषण-भयादोहन-ग ­ुंडागर्दी फैलाकर,
अहिंसा के पुजारी बन बैठे तुम,
और हमें हिंसक बुलाते हो...
रोटी के बदले अस्मिता लूटकर,
पूज्यनीय बन बैठे तुम,
अराजकता फैलाकर,
राष्ट्रभक्त बन बैठे तुम,
और हमें राष्ट्र-द्रोही बुलाते हो...
कलम छीनकर,
शिक्षा-शास्त्री ­ बन बैठे तुम,
जातिवाद फैलाकर,
समाजवादी बन बैठे तुम,
और हमें अनपढ़-गंवार बुलाते हो...