Pro-active Disclosure under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act,2005
AS PER OPERATIONAL GUIDELINE 2008
PARAGRAPH 11.1.1 The Right to Information Act should be followed both in letter and in spirit in all matters relating to NREGA. Section 4 of the Act, which concerns proactive disclosure of information, should be strictly complied with at all levels.
PARAGRAPH 11.1.2 Requests for copies of NREGS-related documents submitted under NREGA should be complied with within seven days. No request should be refused under any circumstances. In particular, no information should be withheld by invoking Clause 8 of the Right to Information Act. All NREGA-related information is in the public domain.
PARAGRAPH 11.1.3 Key documents related to NREGA should be proactively disclosed to the public, without waiting for anyone to ‘apply’ for them.
As per Section 4 of RTI Act, 2005 Every public authority shall— maintain all its records duly catalogued and indexed in a manner and the form which facilitates the right to information under this Act and ensure that all records that are appropriate to be computerised are, within a reasonable time and subject to availability of resources, computerised and connected through a network all over the country on different systems so that access to such records is facilitated;
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