Transcript Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Pro-active Disclosure
under
Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee
Act,2005
AS PER
OPERATIONAL GUIDELINE
2008
PARAGRAPH 11.1.1
The Right to Information Act should be
followed both in letter and in spirit in all
matters relating to NREGA. Section 4 of
the Act, which concerns proactive
disclosure of information, should be strictly
complied with at all levels.
PARAGRAPH 11.1.2
Requests for copies of NREGS-related
documents submitted under NREGA
should be complied with within seven
days. No request should be refused under
any circumstances. In particular, no
information should be withheld by invoking
Clause 8 of the Right to Information Act.
All NREGA-related information is in the
public domain.
PARAGRAPH 11.1.3
Key documents related to NREGA should
be proactively disclosed to the public,
without waiting for anyone to ‘apply’ for
them.
As per Section 4 of RTI Act, 2005
Every public authority shall—
maintain all its records duly catalogued and
indexed in a manner and the form which
facilitates the right to information under this Act
and ensure that all records that are appropriate
to be computerised are, within a reasonable time
and subject to availability of resources,
computerised and connected through a network
all over the country on different systems so that
access to such records is facilitated;
THANKS!!!