13k active cases dumped at CIC

It has now become a mammoth job at the Commission to segregate the two lakh files dumped in the registry among those which are part of active cases and those which have been closed after necessary directives. 

New Chief Information Commissioner Radha Krishna Mathur has set up a team of officials under the Registrar to go through each of these files to streamline the records. Sources said the Commission will weed out over two lakh files in which decisions have been given and no further compliance issue, or legal issue is pending but it will take another three-four months because of segregation process. 

During a review of the registry maintenance process, it had recently emerged that among the 35,000 pending cases before Information Commissioners actual files of only about 21,00022,000 cases were available.