15th annual report of MIC presented in Assembly
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, March 01 2023:
The 15th annual report 2021-22 of Manipur Information Commission (MIC) was presented in the state assembly on Tuesday.
Hearing on 15 cases including four pending cases were carried out in the said fiscal, of which 9 cases were disposed of, resulting in 60 per cent case disposal rate.
As per the report, the Commission received a total of 11 complaint cases in 2021-22 filed against 9 departments and institutions including one each against Revenue, Secretarial Health Department, Health Directorate, Sub-Registrar Imphal East, Sangai International University, DC Kakching (NFSA) and LDA while Education (S) and Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (RD&PR) had two cases each.
Of the complaints in 2021-22, six tiled against Revenue, Secretarial Health Department, Education (S), Sub-Registrar Imphal East, RD&PR and Sangai International University were disposed of while cases involving Health Directorate, Education (S), RD&PR, DC Kakching (NFSA) and LDA are pending.
On the other hand, a total of 122 appeal cases were received in 2021-22 .
However, as 126 cases were pending in 2020, the total number of cases received in 2021-22 was 248.Out of this, 155 eases have been disposed, putting the case disposal rate at 62.5 per cent.
Of the 122 cases received in 2021-22, 51 were disposed while 71 remained pending.
Of the 122 second appeal cases received in 2021 22, 23 cases belonged to the Revenue Department, followed by the Forest Department with 14 cases.
Second appeal cases were also received for Social Welfare (7), PWD (4), TA & Hills (6), Home (1), PHED (2), Vety & AH (1), Power (4), MPSC (1), Health (5), JNIMS (2), Agriculture (1), BSEM (1), CAF&PD (1), CoHSEM (1), Cooperative (1), DRDA (1), Education-SSA (2), Finance (1), Fisheries (2), Higher Education (1), Horticulture & SC (1), IMC (4), MAHUD (7), MUC (4), MLA (1), PDA (2), RD&PR (5), Sangai International University (1), Trade, Commerce & Industries (1), and Water Resource Departments (4) .