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UN Military observer Group blatantly denies info under RTI 9/28/2015 11:30:28 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 28: The United Nations Military Observer Group's Srinagar office has failed to comply with State Information Commission's (SIC) notice urging the commission to send its representative to the SIC on September 16th recently in a complaint filed by a Srinagar resident under section 15 of J&K RTI Act 2009. Details available with Early Times reveal that one Mohammad Hussain Bhat a resident of Shalimar Srinagar tried to seek some information from a UN office under Right to Information Act. Mohammad Hussain told Early Times that he had applied for the post of Administrative Assistant for which UNMOGIP Srinagar office had issued an advertisement in some local dailies of J&K in Feb 2015. The criteria laid down for this post according to Hussain was 10 years of experience (post higher secondary 10 + 2 ). Hussain alleges that a candidate who has only 5 to 6 years of such experience was appointed as administrative assistant at UNMOGIP's Srinagar office. While responding Hussain's email the Islamabad (Pakistan) based Chief of Mission Support Nester Odaga Jalomayo informed him that he won't provide any information about the recruitment process. Jalomayo's emailed reply reads as :"We are not going to provide to you our internal procedures on how we do our recruitment. That is not the way the UN works. However as we stated earlier, if you are so grieved, please feel free to take any action that you deem most appropriate to you" Meanwhile Mohammad Hussain filed a complaint before State Information Commission (SIC) who issued a notice to UNMOGIP Srinagar office and asked their representative to be present at SIC on September 16th 2015. Hussain said that none of the officials came to SIC office on Sept 16. "How can an officer of UN tell a citizen especially an aggrieved citizen , that his office won't share details about recruitment process made by them ? It is UN which has declared Freedom of Information as a basic human right for citizens and dozens of declarations & resolutions have been passed on citizens Right to Information by United Nations. If the UN's senior level officials show such a negative approach towards citizens with regard to their Freedom of Information , what can we expect from officials of other public authorities ?" said the complainant.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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