RTI controversy rocks Tripura Education Department

RTI controversy rocks Tripura Education Department

Agartala, April 5: Within a week of issuing job offers to 4,712 graduate aspirants, the School Education Department of Tripura has been overwhelmed with applications seeking details of selection of the candidates under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005.

State Public Information Officer of the Department KD Das informed that as on date the RTI Cell of the Department has received 210 applications and several more were recorded at district level offices.

The job offers had sparked State-wide resentment because in most of the cases the beneficiaries had allegedly turned out to be CPI(M) cadres or relatives and family members of party leaders. The woes of the department were compounded by intervention in the form of a suo moto action by Chief Information Commissioner BK Chakraborty, asking the director of school education to take five-point measures for smooth receipt of applications and dissemination of information.