If you thought that RTI queries are only about serious issues, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) just proved you wrong. And how!
The PMO website released a list of queries about Prime Minister Narendra Modi that were raised by people under the Right to Information (RTI ) Act.
Here are some of the excerpts from the list of queries released by the PMO website:
Request: What is the speed of internet of Wi-Fi in the PMO?
Information: The speed of internet access in PMO is 34 mbps.
Request: How many and which type of cylinder had been used in kitchen in month of October, 2014. Provide Xerox copies of bills of cylinders and how many and which type of cylinder had been used in month of May, 2015. Please provide the copies of bills of cylinders in respective months.
Information: It is stated that the kitchen expenses of the Prime Minister is personal in nature and not incurred on government account.
Request: Has the Principal Secretary to PM, Shri Nripendra Misra, ever taken his subordinates, in the Prime Minister’s office, on a picnic?
Information: No picnic/excursion was organized by PMO/Principal Secretary to PM Shri Nripendra Misra. Hence, the question of providing other details sought by the application does not arise.
Request: Please tell me PMO Office issue (sic) mobile number for their staff yes or no if yes please provide all staff number in written
Information: PMO provides mobile numbers to officers/ staff based on entitlements and functional requirements. However, disclosure of the mobile numbers would cause unwarranted invasion of privacy of the individual; as such the same is exempted from disclosure under Section 8(1) (j) of the RTI Act.
Request: Is there any information (sic) how many sick or casual leave or health leave is availed by Prime Minister of India in the last 10 years?
Information: It may be noted that no leave has been availed by the present Prime Minister i.e. Shri Narendra Modi since taking over office.
Request: Enclose all the proper records and documents which show that the present Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi is The Prime Servant of India and not the Prime Minister.
Information: There is no proposal to change the official designation of PM. Hence, the information sought does not form part of records held by this office.
Request: Has the Prime Minister read the Indian constitution? Is the Prime Minister supposed to read the Indian constitution? Is the Prime Minister assumed to have read Indian constitution? Has anyone in the PMO till date told the Prime Minister what his duties are towards India?
Information: Information sought does not fall under the definition of information. Request: Who helps the Prime Minister in sending tweets in regional and foreign languages? Names of individual(s) for each regional language. Information: Information sought is not maintained on record. (Another reply says that the Prime Minister himself is managing his personal social media accounts.)
Request: Number of sick or casual or health leave availed by the Prime Minister in the last 10 years.
Information: No leave has been availed by the present Prime Minister since taking over the office. (Replying to a related query on whether Prime Minister Modi was on leave during the Bihar election campaign last year, the PMO responded: Tours on election campaign are not official.)
Request: Percentage of marks Modi secured while graduating in 1977 from Delhi University.
Information: Does not form part of records.
