CET fined Rs 50k over RTI query
Bhubaneswar: State information commissioner B K Mohapatra has directed the College of Engineering and Technology (CET) Bhubaneswar to pay Rs 50,000 as compensation for not furnishing information sought by an appellant under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
The commissioner passed this directive on July 16 while disposing of an appeal petition filed by Biswanandan Dash. Not only will the institution have to pay the compensation within a month, Mohapatra imposed penalty of Rs 25,000 on CET’s public information officer (PIO) for denying information under the RTI Act.
CET principal P K Patra said he would go through the order. “As CET Bhubaneswar is a government college, I will inform the government about the order. The government will take action in this matter,” he added.