State Election Commission, Mizoram, Government of Mizoram, India

REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, 2005 FOR THE YEAR 2015-2016.

I. PARTICULARS OF REPORTING AUTHORITY :

1	Name of the office	STATE ELECTION COMMISSION, MIZORAM
2.	Number of gazetted officers	4 (Four)
3.	Names of Public Sector Undertakings, Boards, Council etc under the Office	Nil
4.	Names of NGOs assisted by the Department	Nil

II. IMPLEMENTATIONS OF SECTION 4 OF THE RTI ACT :

1.	Whether all the records are catalogued and indexed by the office? If not, reason as to why?	YES
2.	Whether all relevant facts relating to formulation of important policies have been published by the department/ office as required under Sec. 4(1 )(b)?	YES
3.	Whether suo moto information has been provided to the public at regular intervals as required by Sec 4(2)?	YES
4.	Whether every information in the department/office has been widely disseminata as required by Sec. 4(3)?	YES
5.	Whether information the department/office has been made accessible to State Public Information Officer (SPIO) concerned as required by Sec. 4	YES

III. IMPLEMENTATION OF SECTION 5 :

1.	How many SPIOs have been designated in the office? If not why?	1 (One)
2.	How many SAPIOs have been appointed in the office? If not why?	1 (One)
3.	How many Departmental Appellate Authorities (DAAs) have been appointed in the office? If not why?	1 (One)
4.	When were these designations made? Kindly enclose a copy of such orders	1 (One)
5.	Whether any assistance of any other officer has been sought by SPIO? If so, in how many cases?	NO

IV. IMPLEMENTATION OF SECTION 6 :

1.	No. of applications received in the office	25
2.	How many applications had been assisted by the SPIO to reduce an application in writing under Sec 6(1) (b)?	Nil
3.	How many applications have been referred to another Public Authorities (PAs)/Offices for providing information?	2
4.	Amount of application fees received. Were these deposited to the Government?	Rs 70/-

V. IMPLEMENTATION OF SECTION 7 :

1.	How many applications were decided within the prescribed time limit?	25
2.	How many applications were rejected by the SPIO? What were the main grounds for rejecting the applications?	Nil
3.	How many applications were not decided within the prescribed limitation?	Nil
4.	What are the main reasons for not deciding the applications within limitations?	Nil
5.	How many applications were received concerning the life or liberty of a person Ni	NIl
6.	Whether applications concerning the life or liberty of a person were decided within a period of 48 hours from time of receipt of the application?	Nil
7.	How many applicants failed to make payment of cost of providing the information? State the amount?	Nil
8.	How many applicants belonging to BPL were provided information free of cost? And how many of them were denied information free of cost?	Nil
9.	How many sensorily disabled applicants were assisted by the SPIO?	Nil
10.	How many applicants were given information free of cost due to failure of the PAs to provide the information within limitation?	Nil
11.	In how many applications a third party was involved.	Nil
12.	Amount of fees collected for the provisions of such information during the reported period	Nil

VI. IMPLEMENTATION OF SECTION 8 :

1.	How many applications were denied information under Sec. 8? Give reasons used for denying such information	Nil
2.	How many applicants were given information under Sec. 8 on the ground of larger public interest?	Nil

VII. IMPLEMENTATION OF SECTION 9 ;

How many applications were rejected on the ground specified under Sec. 9 of RTI Act?

Nil

VIII. IMPLEMENTATION OF SECTION 19 :

1.	How many appeals have been instituted before the DAA against the actions/inaction of the SPIO in the Office?	Nil
2.	How many such first appeals were decided by the DAA within a period of 45 days from the date of filing the first appeal?	Nil
3.	How many first appeals were rejected?	Nil
4.	How many first appeals were allowed?	Nil
5.	How many 2^ml appeals were preferred against the First Appellate Authority before the MIC?	Nil
6.	How many 2^nd appeals were decided by MIC and how many appeals were pending?	Nil
7.	How many appeals were allowed by the Commission and how many were disallowed?	Nil
8.	In how many cases the Commission made recommendations and what are the actions taken by the Office on such recommendations?	Nil

IX. IMPLEMENTATION OF SECTION 25 :

What are the recommendations, if any, for compliance of the provisions of the RTI Act by the Office?

Nil

X. IMPLEMENTATION OF SECTION 26 :

1.	What are the departmental and organizational programmes conducted by the Office in respect of exercise of the RTI as contemplated under Sec. 26(1) (a)?	No such programmes conducted
2.	What acfions were taken by the Office to encourage PAs in the developmental organization of such programmes as mentioned above	No such action taken
3.	What were the actions taken by the office to promote the Act	Applicants were encouraged to Seek all kinds of information under this Public Authority.

2015-2016