Infocommpunjab.com Website Review

government of punjab department of information technology. (administratlon reforms branch) notification the 11th october, 2005 (central act no. 22 of 2005) and all others powers enabling him in this behalf, the governor of punjab is pleased to constitute the punjab state information commission to exercise the powers conferred upon and to perform the functions as*igned to it under chapter iv, v, vi and other provisions of the act and to appoint sh. rajan kashyap, ias (retd.), as state chief information commissioner of the aforesaid. s. sarwan singh channy, ias (retd.),has been appointed chief information commissioner, punjab under section 15 of the right to. information act, 2005 and administered the oath of office by the governor of punjab on 17.09.2014. the video conference facility is available at the punjab state information commission. it was launched by h.e. governor punjab, on 3rd march 2011. initially, four border districts namely amritsar, ludhiana, gurdaspur, and ferozepur were covered through video hearing of the cases is conducted in the office, of the respective deputy commissioner. subsequently, this facility has been extended to three more districts i.e. jalandhar, mansa and sri mukatsar sahib in march 2015. in september 2016, one more district i.e. sangrur has also been added. this facility saves lot of money, time and energy of the complainants, appellants and the public authorities, as they are not required to come to the office of the commission at chandigarh to attend the hearing of their cases. this facility has also resulted in the video conference facility from july 2017 has been extended in the remaining 14 districts, namely, fatehgarh, hoshiarpur, ropar, mohali, tarn taran, kapurthala, nawasahar, moga, faridkot, patiala, bathinda, barnala, pathankot and fazilika resulting in coverage of all the 22