Collection of penalty under Odisha Right to Public Service Act

Collection of penalty under Odisha Right to Public Service Act

Dear friends

Odisha Right to Public Services Act, 2012   has empowered the citizens to demand public services as a right and access certain notified services within stipulated time period.  As per Rule 8 of Odisha Right to Public Service Act, 2012, there is provision of penalty to be imposed on Govt. officers failing to provide the service within the stipulated time frame. The penalty amount will be recovered from their salary/ honourarium/ remuneration. The penalty amount under the RTI Act is to be deposited in the head of  Account “ 0070-Other Administrative Services-60-Other services-800-Other Receipts-0097-Misc. Receipts-02214-Fines under Odisha Right to Public Services Act”.

To understand details of penalty amount collected so far, RTI Application was  filed  to the PIO, Dept. of GA & PG seeking  information about  penalty  collected  from 2013 to 2019. RTI Application was transferred to the office of Centre For Modernizing Government Initiatives ( CMGI)  to  provide  information. This  information was  collected  from the  Directorate of Treasuries  and Inspection, Odisha  and supplied  to me  on 19.3.20. The  details of  information supplied  by the PIO  is as follows.

Year	No. of officials  penalized	Amount
2013	51
2014	36
2015	16
2016	14
2017	19
2018	9
2019	6
Total	156	1,14,408.00

·          Penalty amount collected from defaulting officers  ranges  from  Rs. 10.00  to Rs.  12,000.00.

·         The  highest  penalty amount Rs.   11680.00 has been deposited by   JMFC, Aul in 2014.

·         Many  officials have  been imposed  just  Rs. 10.00  as penalty  for  failure  to deliver  service in time.

Pradip Pradhan

M-9937843482

Date-25.3.20