Information Commissioner Rahul Singh – Photo: Amar Detailed Papers and files are disappearing from government offices. Worried about this, Madhya Pradesh State Information Commissioner Rahul Singh has instructed the Principal Secretary of General Administration Department to get the Madhya Pradesh Public Records Act enacted. Till the time the Act is not implemented, the Center has been asked to make guidelines according to the Public Records Act. Due to this, strict action will be taken against the guilty employees or officers for the management of files and their disappearance. This includes imprisonment of up to five years and fine of up to ten thousand rupees. Information Commissioner Rahul Singh said in his order that the methods related to management and destruction of documents in the Right to Information Act The Commission reserves the right to make changes in The State Information Commission has written to the Principal Secretary, General Administration Department 66 January 2022 has summoned the report. Singh also said that one of the major reasons behind the indifferent attitude of the officials on the missing papers is that there is no complete legal system to deal with such cases. The Public Records Act is applicable for this in the Center and other states. In government offices What type of documents are

Information Commissioner Rahul Singh said in his order that many cases of disappearance of documents are coming to the fore in the Commission. Because of these missing papers, people’s lives and careers are at stake. If someone’s land papers are missing, then the papers of irregularities in the appointment are missing. Investigation related documents are missing. The document is missing in the case related to the corruption scam. If any important order affecting any person or organization is missing, then somewhere the paper of action taken against any government official is missing. Police report filed Documents produced on the orders of
In many cases, missing documents also came to the fore when the commission asked the concerned public authority to file a police report. Rahul Singh said that the officer is indifferent about the missing papers. It is not that only common citizens are troubled because of missing papers. Government officials and employees are also becoming victims of negligence in the records. Due to missing departmental records, they have to face difficulties at the time of service and retirement.
Application in the case in which orders were made Disappeared
The funny thing is that in the appeal case in which the State Information Commissioner has asked the government to bring Public Records Act, in that case the RTI application is also from the record. found missing Also, the information that was sought was not even found on paper. In the case, information about the caste certificate was sought, which was found missing from the office. For the last three years, no one’s accountability has been fixed for the missing paper in this episode. The Information Commission has imposed a fine of Rs. against three guilty SDM officers .
Worried about missing documents for the first time in a year

of the State of Madhya Pradesh For the first time after the passage of 506 years from the formation, it came to the fore that the maintenance of documents in the state There is no Public Records Act to manage. The Center and other states have their own Public Records Act, under which the management of files in the office is ensured. It is evident that the state authorities never took the missing documents seriously. ,