PIO Finalists

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PIO Selection Procedure

We are very happy to announce the names of three officers as the finalists for RTI Awards 2009 2009. These individuals have the distinction of satisfying the maximum number of RTI applicants. Two of these officers would be the eventual winners. Names of these two winners would be decided by the jury on the 27th November.

Nominations were called during the month June from officers who thought they had implemented RTI well. We received a total of 112 nominations. We are glad that many government departments also participated by officially nominating their Public Information Officers (PIO).

Our effort was to shortlist those officers who had provided maximum information within the prescribed time and satisfied maximum number of RTI applicants. The short listing involved following steps:

  1. RTI applications were filed with each of these officers to know the number of RTI applications received by them during calendar year 2008, number of cases in which they provided information, number of cases in which they denied information, number of first and second appeals filed against their decisions etc.
  2. From the information received, a satisfaction index was calculated on the basis of number of cases in which appeals were filed and number of cases in which information was denied. The officers with more than 90% satisfaction index were shortlisted at this stage. 15 officers made it to this shortlist.
  3. Our teams visited the offices of each of these 15 officers to verify the genuineness of the figures provided by these officers. Some officers got disqualified at this stage because their record keeping was so poor that the genuineness of these figures could not be verified. Some of them were also found to have provided wrong information.
  4. For the remaining officers, names and addresses of all those citizens who had made applications with these PIOs were obtained. Letters were written to those citizens, in whose cases the shortlisted PIOs claimed to have provided complete information. The citizens were asked whether they had actually received complete information and whether they were satisfied.
  5. The public feedback received was compiled. Those officers who had satisfied more than 80% people were finally shortlisted.
  6. Please provide feedback on these PIOs if you have had the opportunity to interact with them as a result of your RTI filings.