Digital Goa Issue 91 December 2013 Dec 2013 | Page 2

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1 to 31st December 2013

Reality check on Goa’s much touted e-readiness………….

SHOCKING BUT TRUE!
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21 Departments have not mentioned their email addresses.

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11 Departments’ emails returned undelivered

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Automated reply received from 3 different departments state department name as
Art and Culture with same Director name.

This is the outcome of a survey conducted by Goa RTI Forum recently

T

o get an insight into the responsiveness of the Goa Government websites, we at Goa RTI
forum did an elaborate excercise. We
emailed a letter to all the departments
of Govt. of Goa mentioned in the portal
http://www.goa.gov.in/. on April 9,
2013. Our letter reads as under:
Please implement Right to Information act in letter and spirit. Specifically
section 4 of RTI act 2005.
As per section 4(b) of above act
xi. the budget allocated to each of
its agency, indicating the particulars
of all plans, proposed expenditures and
reports on disbursements made;
xii. the manner of execution of subsidy programs, including the amounts
allocated and the details of beneficiaries of such programs;
xiii. particulars of recipients of
concessions, permits or authorisations

granted by it;
xiv. details in respect of the information, available to or held by it, reduced
in an electronic form;
Please acknowledge and convey to

us when above mention information is
uploaded on you website.
To our surprise and dismay the
response in one of the supposedly best
E-governed state was pathetic.

(1) 21 Department have not mentioned their email address.
(2) 11 Department’s email returned
undelivered
(2) 3 Automatic reply received
from department in it....Art and Culture
Department reply indicate (Prasad V.
Lolayekar) as Director.
We brought this state of affairs to
the notice of the Chief minister of Goa
and requested him to look into the
matter and order all the department
to upload all the information on their
website as required under section 4 of
RTI act 2005.
But till date nothing much has
changed , the status quo remains.
State of Goa Government websites
is still the same – un-updated, user
unfriendly, search unfriendly with
no accountable author