Proactive Disclosure under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment

Pro-active Disclosure under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005

AS PER OPERATIONAL GUIDELINE 2008

PARAGRAPH 11. 1. 1 The Right to Information Act should be followed both in letter and in spirit in all matters relating to NREGA. Section 4 of the Act, which concerns proactive disclosure of information, should be strictly complied with at all levels.

PARAGRAPH 11. 1. 2 Requests for copies of NREGS-related documents submitted under NREGA should be complied within seven days. No request should be refused under any circumstances. In particular, no information should be withheld by invoking Clause 8 of the Right to Information Act. All NREGA-related information is in the public domain.

PARAGRAPH 11. 1. 3 Key documents related to NREGA should be proactively disclosed to the public, without waiting for anyone to ‘apply’ for them.

As per Section 4 of RTI Act, 2005 Every public authority shall— maintain all its records duly catalogued and indexed in a manner and the form which facilitates the right to information under this Act and ensure that all records that are appropriate to be computerised are, within a reasonable time and subject to availability of resources, computerised and connected through a network all over the country on different systems so that access to such records is facilitated;

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