Gujrat University V-C has to provide leave information.

RTI questions GU V-C's right to go on leave

by Kapil Dave in dnaindia.com on 8 July 2008

Information commissioner orders the varsity to provide data on his absence within 10 days

GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat University (GU) vice-chancellor (V-C) Parimal
Trivedi will now have to furnish details of his attendance since he
took over charge.

Acting on a complaint, state RTI commissioner RN Das has ordered GU
PIO (Public Information Officer) to provide this information within 10
days.

GU Arts department's dean Dr Pradip Prajapati filed an RTI application
in the university seeking records of Trivedi's attendance.

In the application, he had asked: Whom did the V-C inform when he went
on leave? With whose permission did he go out of the state? Who was
given charge in his absence?

The university first declined to furnish the information stating such
personal details could not be given under the RTI Act. Trivedi is facing the heat in many RTI cases too. Around 10 complaints and
appeals are in various stages in the RTI commission, seeking different
information about Trivedi and decisions taken by him in the
university.

The commissioner has issued orders to the university regarding
recruitment in MEd department (in which Trivedi has been alleged to
recruit his wife ignoring other competent candidates).