TheMaharashtraGeneral Administration Department (GAD) has directed all government establishments to make suo motu disclosure as mandated in the Right to Information (RTI) Act after the State Information Commission (SIC) expressed concerns over the lack of desired voluntary disclosure by public authorities.
The GAD issued a communication to this effect on February 16. The GAD also reminded public authorities about updating the official websites at least twice a year, preferably by January 1 and July 1.
As per the suo motu disclosures under Section 4 of the Act, every public authority is duty-bound to place a large amount of information in the public domain on a proactive basis to make the functioning of the public authorities transparent and also to reduce the need for filing individual RTI applications