Chhattisgarh
New initiative of Chhattisgarh State Information Commission: Appellants will now be able to connect through mobile for hearing
- 24 Jun 2023
- 3 min read
Why in News?
On June 21, 2023, the Chhattisgarh State Information Commission has started a new initiative, in which the appellants will now be able to join the hearing of the second appeal through mobile. With this, the appellant sitting at home or from any other place can be directly present in the second appeal hearing with the help of mobile in video conferencing
Key Points:
- It has been started on a trial basis in Chhattisgarh State Information Commission. The trial was conducted in the court of State Information Commissioner Manoj Trivedi and State Information Commissioner Dhanvendra Jaiswal.
- In the second appeal under the RTI, several cases of Thakur Naval Singh from Bilaspur and Devashish from Kanker were heard. In this, the appellants attended the hearing from their mobile. The appellants got an opportunity to hear from home.
- State Information Commissioner Manoj Trivedi asked the appellants to use a better network to connect through mobile connections so that the audio and video quality is good.
- State Information Commissioner Dhanvendra Jaiswal said that till now the appellants were attending the hearing from the courtroom of the State Information Commissioner or the video conferencing room of the NIC located in the collectorate of the respective districts. Now you will also get the opportunity and facility to join from mobile.
- Chhattisgarh State Information Commission Secretary G.R. Churendra said that work has been started on a trial basis at present to enable the candidates to attend the hearing of the Second Appeal of the State Information Commission with a mobile connection. In this, a link will be sent from the court of the State Information Commissioner to the registered mobile number of the appellants. Through that link, the appellants will be able to directly join the date of hearing in the case of a second appeal under the Right to Information Act 2005.
