The application form under the erstwhile Ordinance demanded to know the purpose for which the information is required. Why is that necessary under the Act?

The Act does not empower the Public Information Officer (PIO) to evaluate your question by the purpose you declare and then decide whether to provide information or not. This clause inserted by the administration in the procedure for demanding information. No rules can go against the provisions of the Act.

Go ahead and write in response to such query: `` Because it is my fundamental right to know. The information sought cannot be denied under any exclusion clauses of the Act. ’’ If information is still denied, without citing any exclusion clause, hold the PIO responsible in your appeal for ``having failed to supply the information sought without any reasonable cause’’ and demand action against him as prescribed in the Act for this.

* But some information was denied last time because the PIO felt it was not in `public interest’… A government department or a semi-government organisation acts on behalf of the people. Any query to know what it does inherently is in ``public interest''. ... more.

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