Punjab Right To Service Commission to set up help desk

Chandigarh, February 27, 2015:  Punjab Right to Service Commission has set up the Help Desk with the telephone no.0172-2792181 for providing information and rendering the services to General Public.

Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the commission said that applicant can obtain the status or queries he rendered to the commission. He further said that Commission had disposed of 687 cases pertaining to “Attestation of Uncontested Mutation” during the Lok Adalat held at Ludhiana. More Lok Adalats would  also be held at Bhatinda, Ludhiana and Jalandhar.

He further said that as many as 1,77,66,096  applicants have availed the notified services during the period April to January,2015 which includes 18,16,650 applicants during the Month of January, 2015 only under Punjab Right to Service Commission.

He also said that on the basis of MIS reports received from various districts, the Commission took suo-moto notice in groups of cases where service was delayed beyond time lines without sufficient cause. With the intervention of the Commission, 9500 such cases have been disposed of up to January,2015. Apart from this, suo-moto action was initiated in 184 individual cases up to January,2015.

He also said that 40 officers/officials have been penalised who have failed to deliver the notified services without sufficient cause. Two applicants have also been compensated out of this penalty amount, he added.