Is Election Commission Of India really unbiased ?

Many Public authorities in India have adopted online grievance redressal mechanism. Election Commission of India(ECI) is also amongst them. ECI is responsible for administering all the electoral processes in India. It supposed that under the supervision of the commission, free and fair elections are held. However when it comes to redressal of complaints or grievance, I doubt whether ECI is really unbiased or how? .There is reason why I doubt election commissions procedure.

On 4^th march 2014 I lodged online complaint with election commission of India. Promptly they sent me acknowledgement. Redressal time given to  my complaint was 10 days. However even after 25 days ECI has not taken any decision on my complaint. If there is no substance in complaint they should have disposed it off with reasons. What is point in keeping the complaint hanging? Why 10 days response time was given to me and what happened to it? I had lodged complaint against Pune Divisional commissioner Prabhakar Deshmukh. He has very strongpolitical backing and can easily manipulate the election procedure.

Is this same Vijay Dhumal calling me,who gave life threats to noted RTI activist Shivaji Raut ?

Yesterday there was a miss call on my mobile. I normally don’t make return calls unless I confirm the number. When searched I found that the call was from one Vijay Dhumal from pune. It suddenly struck to my mind that this may or may not be thesame vijay dhumal against whom noted RTI activist Shivaji  Raut had complained to chief minister, homeminister and police dept. Vijay Dhumal's number who called Shivaji Raut was 9822275473 . Internet search shows this number is of Vijarao Dhumal  from pune .I am not mentioning the number from which the person made me call because I am not sure whether the person who called me was same who called Shivaji Raut or not .And to avoid further consequences I don’t want to make return call.

I am not scared, panic or I don’t want the police protection, however I am sharing this with readers just for information.

SIC Pune asks to put entire information on website sought by deceased RTI applicant Vilas Baravkar

State information commission, Pune bench has asked concerned departments to publish all the information sought by RTI applicant late Vilas baravkar, who committed suicide day before yesterday. In its letter to suptd of police (rural) Pune, Suptd of police - Riagad, D G police - Mumbai, collector pune and CEO Zillah parishad - pune, SIC pune Mr.Ravindra Jadhav has asked concerned PIO’s to put the entire information sough by baravkar on their website. The SIC has   provided all the departments list of baravkars pending and disposed appeals. SIC has also asked PIO’s to put all the information on website that is already provided to him.

Vilas Baravkar an RTI applicant from pune commits suicide

Today an RTI applicant Vilas Dattatray Barawkar from Pune districtcommitted suicide. In his suicide note he has written several names. At this stage it is very difficult to comment anything on this issue, however as most of his applications were regarding functioning of police department. Irrespective of the authenticity of allegations it would not be proper for pune rural police to investigate the matter .Today I brought some of baravakars RTI applications from state Information commission, Pune bench . Perusal of which indicates that some of the information he asked may be vague but most of this information falls under section 4 of RTI act. Have look at his applications

What Is logic behind appointments and giving additional charge to SIC's ?

No one can  understand logic behind giving SIC pune bench additional charge to amaravati divisional commissioner Ravindra J Jadhav. It was easy to handle pune bench for brihanmumbai or konkan commissioner,even then they will handle single charge, while ravindra jadhav will handle charge all the way from Amaravati.More over the information regarding this is only in Contact details of SIC, No circular or order regarding this is on SIC website.This not being done for benefit of pune bench.

In last month only pune bench additional charge was given to Aurangabad bench commissioner D.B.Deshpande.He has been now given additional charge of Nagpur bench while it was comparatively easy to handle pune bench for Aurangabad commissioner and Nagpur bench for amaravati commissioner.In the nutshell it is clear that  all this exercise is  being done surely to please some one very High Profile and not for benefit of  Right to Information Act.

Last month the state government had made appointments on three posts of information commissioners in Maharashtra, which were lying vacant for more many months. Ajit Kumar Jain, former Additional Chief Secretary; Ravindra Jadhav, former Secretary of ex-President Pratibha Patil; and Thanksy Thekkekara, former Additional Chief Secretary were appointed as new information commissioners.

The fourth appointment of was of Vasant Patil, superintendent engineer of Tapi Irrigation Development Corporation,but he did not take oath  as the tenure of his current post was  scheduled to end by March. However now the news from corridors of mantralaya is, his resignation has been accepted and any time in next few days he will take oath as a state information commissioner.

Shri Ratnakar Gaikwad

Chief Information Commissioner

State Information Commission

13^th Floor, New Administrative Building,
Mantralaya, Mumbai 400032.

022 22856078

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Shri D.B. Deshpande

State Information Commissioner, Aurangabad

State Information Commission,

Small saving Building,
Behind Treasury Office, Aurangabad.

0240 2352133 / 2352544

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Shri M.H. Shaha

State Information Commissioner, Pune

Maharashtra Information Commission

New Administration Building, 4^th Floor,
Opp. Council Hall, Pune.

020 26050580

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Shri Ravindra J. Jadhav

State Information Commissioner(Additional Charge), Pune

State Information Commission

New Administration Building, 4^th Floor,
Opp. Council Hall, Pune.

020 26050580

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Smt. T. F. Thekkekara

State Information Commissioner, Konkan

State Information Commission

5^th Floor, Konkan Bhavan,
C.B.D. Belapur, Navi Mumbai.

022 27570323/27579463/64

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Shri Ajitkumar Jain

State Information Commissioner, Greater Mumbai

State Information Commission

Greater Mumbai, 13^th Floor,
New Administration Building, Mantralay, Mumbai.

022 222040086 / 22040095

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Shri Ravindra J. Jadhav

State Information Commissioner, Amravati

State Information Commission

Bhatkuli Tahsil Office, Camp,
Amravati 444602.

0721/2553172 / 0721/2553173

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Shri P. W. Patil

State Information Commissioner, Nashik

State Information Commission

Shivneri, 2^nd Floor, Govt. Guest House,
Behind Golf Club, Nashik.

0253 2232764

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Shri D.B. Deshpande

State Information Commissioner(Additional Charge), Nagpur

State Information Commission

Administrative Building No.2, Civil Lines,
Nagpur.