Date: 5.12.2011
To,
The Director
Department of Women and Child Development
Govt. of NCT of Delhi
1 Canning Lane, K.G. Marg,
New Delhi
Subject: Regarding putting Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) related information in public domain as per sec. 4 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 and pursuance of Supreme Court decision W.P(C) No. 196/2001dated 07/10/2004.
Sir/ Madam
Indians for Transparency filed RTI application with your department and inspected several files related to functioning of Integrated Child Development Scheme in Delhi. It has been observed that there is a selection committee to select Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) and several NGOs engaging to supply of supplementary nutrition and food items to ICDS projects. There are 94 projects in Delhi which are being catered to by NPOs. There are other important information like allocation of funds, number of beneficiaries, details information of self help groups engaging in supply of supplementary nutrition and food items to ICDS projects, not put on the website of the department, which is important for the sake of the transparency for the people should know how the system operated.
Sec. 4 (1) a) of the Right to Information Act, 2005, stated clearly that “Every public authority shall maintain all its records duly catalogued and indexed in a manner and the form which facilities right to information under this act and ensure that all records that are appropriate to be computerized are, within a reasonable time and subject to availability of resources, computerized and connected through a network all over the country on different systems so that access to such records to facilitated”, So as per the provision, it is the prime responsibility of the Public Information Officer to maintain all records computerized and put in the public domain through website and other means.
As per Supreme Court of India’s judgment, W.P(C) No. 196/2001 dated 7/10/2004 by which already given direction (no. 4) that “All state Government/Union Territories shall put on their website full data for the ICDS schemes including where AWCs are operational, the number of beneficiaries category-wise, the funds allocated and used and other related matters”. As per directions, Supreme Court of India had fixed the responsibility of the state to put all concerned information on the website.
We would like to your keen attention on the issue and request you treat this matter sincerely and do the needful.
Thanking you
(Yogesh Kumar)
Indians for Transparency
House No. 585, Street No.5,
Chanderlok, Shahdara, Delhi- 110093
E-Mail Id: indians4transparency@gmail.com
Copy to: Secretary, Department of Women and Child Development, GLNS Complex, Delhi Gate, New Delhi-110002
